Stephen Manion
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering 1981-01-01 - 1988-01-01
University of Delaware
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 1977-01-01 - 1981-01-01Work Experience
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Metrozet
2005-01-01 - 2015-10-01
Metrozet
SiWave Inc
2000-10-01 - 2005-01-01
SiWave Inc
GEOSense
1994-03-01 - 2000-10-01
GEOSense
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1988-07-01 - 2000-09-01
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Skills
Summary
I am an experienced project manager and engineer with a track record of delivering electronic and electro-mechanical products. At JPL I was the Product Delivery Manager, responsible for schedule, budget, and technical design, of power systems on the Psyche, NISAR, and SWOT missions. Psyche is a recently launched deep space mission to the Psyche asteroid, SWOT is an Earth orbiting mission that launched in 2022, and NISAR is an Earth orbiting mission scheduled to launch this year. I am currently the group supervisor for the Power Electronics and Technology group. Some of my past projects have included multiple electro-mechanical seismic sensors, twenty-four bit seismic digitizers, a precision aeronautical wing tip measurement system that was a key part of an airborne synthetic aperture radar, MEMS optical switches, and instrumentation for a NASA Mars mission. I was a founder of Geosense, LLC, and Metrozet, LLC, the latter of which was acquired by Kinemetrics, Inc in 2009. My expertise includes: ● Project management, including schedule, budget, and technical development ● System architecture ● Low noise analog and digital electronic circuit design ● Embedded system C programming ● Transitioning electro-mechanical products to production, including procurement of parts from overseas vendors ● Technical writing for proposals, patents, and scientific papers
