Isha Suri
Sr. Spacecraft Avionics Engineer/Manager
Renton,WA
Summary
Professional with 13+ years of experience in System Level Integration & Testing, Electrical Engineering, System Level Test Beds Design & Execution, Technical & Managing lead for projects.
Passionate to work on space projects!
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Sr. Manager/Lead - Lunar Lander, Vehicle Test Bed
Blue Origin
Kent, WA
05.2022 - Current
- Chief Architect & Designer of Blue Moon MK1 Lunar Lander Vehicle Test Bed (VTB)/Hardware in the Loop system.
- Designed, Built & Delivered 1st iteration of VTB in 6 months to achieve company level goals for 2022. Delivered the final version of VTB in 2024 to program.
- Was awarded Chief Engineer's Coin in 2023 for excellence engineering performance & judgement.
- Led program level reviews, VTB Preliminary & Critical Design Reviews.
- Built VTB team from scratch to a team of 15 members. Led & Managed these 15 members, including their technical tasking, design completions as well as building the VTB.
- Leading Test bed SW, HW, Harnesses, Configuration, Processes Development, and overall designs.
- Coordinated with multiple teams such as FSW, Autonomy, Systems, Subsystems IPTs (Avionics, Thermal, Power & so on) to understand their tests requirements & how test bed configurations will comply these tests.
- Managed resources as well as budget of approx. $10M for these test beds.
Senior Staff Avionics System Architect
Maxar Technologies
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Led design of Avionics Test Bed to be used for Power & Propulsion Element (PPE) spacecraft testing.
- Deputy lead of Avionics for PPE project.
- Led sizing & channel analysis of Avionics subsystem for PPE.
- Led coordination with FSW, Avionics, Power & Other subsystems to resolve avionics configuration issues.
Lead Avionics Engineer
Blue Origin
02.2021 - 10.2021
- Led Blue Engine’s (BE-4, BE-3U & BE-7) Hardware-in-the-loop development (HILs) team.
- Design & Execution Lead for designing, validating, verifying and testing the HILs for BE-4 Controller (Used in New Glenn 1st Stage Engine), BE-3U Controllers (Used in NG 2nd Stage Engines)
- Delivered functionally tested HILs with complete documentation to internal business unit New Glenn.
- Led customer interactions between Blue Engines and New Glenn team for BE-4, BE-3U HIL deliveries.
- Developed and managed HIL documentation including specifications, schedules, drawings, ICDs, procedures, plans, reports and conducted design reviews including PDR, and CDR.
Avionics Engineer III
Blue Origin
Kent, WA
11.2018 - 01.2021
- Led design of Hardware in the Loop (HILs) test bed for BE-4 Engine Controller (Used in ULA's Vulcan Rocket) testing & FSW qualification.
- Responsible for delivering these BE-4 HILs to ULA for Vulcan's Engines Testing. These HILs were used to qualify ULA engines for Vulcan's 1st flight.
- Led design of Hardware in the Loop (HILs) test bed for BE-3U Engine Controller (Upper Stage Engine for NG) testing & FSW qualification.
- Led test bed design for Acceptance test & Qualification testing for BE-4 & BE-3U controllers.
- Responsible for BE-4 engines (In use in ULA's Vulcan Engines) controller electrical design validation, verification and testing.
- Responsible for BE-3U's (New Glenn Upper Stage Engine) controller electrical subsystem circuit design, Sensor Interface design, layout, and prototyping design using OrCAD and PCB layout editor
- Led & performed design & worst-case simulation of BE-3U controller's electrical design in LT Spice, P Spice and Microcap.
- Performed radiation testing of electrical parts for BE-3U at LBNL, Berkley.
Electrical Engineer
Capella Space
03.2018 - 11.2018
- Developed software applications on Beaglebone for spacecraft for automated testing in test bed.
- Responsible for verification & validation testing, power characterization, circuit and response analysis of electrical modules using LTspice and Altium.
- Responsible for functional testing, thermal testing of spacecraft different subsystems (C&DH, battery control module and stack board)
- Developed applications on Raspberry Pi to remotely control power supplies, electronics load and other instruments using SCPI and log their data using python for testing of spacecraft systems.
- Performed Thermal Vacuum test for spacecraft (flight model).
- Responsible for data analysis and verification for spacecraft testing in Python.
Visiting Researcher
Robotics Interaction Lab, With Dr. Maja Mataric, USC
04.2017 - 08.2017
- Developed scripts to automate robotic system to help children suffering from autism; NSF study.
- Proposed methods to find accurate orientation of robot using compass and gyroscope.
- Implemented SPI communication protocol to transfer IMU data from Arduino to Raspberry Pi.
Electronice Engineer
Visteon Corporation
08.2014 - 07.2016
- Validated electronic design of PCBs and integrated them to be used in display modules
- Performed hardware design test and validation (test design, measurements and reporting) for display modules (SDM4 and DM4) to be used in cars
- Studied, analyzed and evaluated technical requirements for Combiner Head-Up Display module
- Generated and Analyzed TCS (Test & Calibration Specification) report for SDM4 in accordance with customer requirements
- Programmed Raspberry Pi Model B+ to develop software tools, which interfaces Pi to company's network server and is used for automation of test benches
- Developed server applications to control FM signal transmitter remotely for performing tests and simulations
- Supported Test-Drives to evaluate DAB Service Linking Strategy, announcements, etc.
Student Assistant
P3 Energy And Storage GmbH
05.2012 - 04.2014
- Development of models for Redox Flow Battery using COMSOL Multi-physic software and MATLAB
- Developed applications in C for measuring battery parameters such as state of charge (SOC), expected life, charging and discharging cycles
- Tested Lithium Ion batteries for characterizing and forecasting expected service life for BMW Electric Car project.
Assistant Manager
Reliance Infrastructure
07.2008 - 08.2011
- Project 1: RGTPP, Hisar, India: 2 x 600 MW - €590 M.
- Project 2: DVC RGTPP, West Bengal, India: 2 x 600 MW - €630 M.
- Project Control: Managed electrical packages for above-mentioned projects, from project inception to final delivery.
- Engineering Design: Developed and checked engineering designs for electrical packages.
- Planning and Monitoring: Was in charge of project progress, cost analysis and managed project resources using ERP software i.e. Primavera P6, SAP, along with providing technical support.
- Management Information System: Developed standard reports, S curves for management and clients.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany 10.2011 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
PEC University of Technology
Chandigarh, India 07.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Team Leadership,
Complex Problem-Solving
Project Management
Technical Proficiency
Excellent Communication
Decision-Making
Employment Authorization
US Person (Green Card)
Timeline
Sr. Manager/Lead - Lunar Lander, Vehicle Test Bed
Blue Origin
05.2022 - Current
Senior Staff Avionics System Architect
Maxar Technologies
10.2021 - 04.2022
Lead Avionics Engineer
Blue Origin
02.2021 - 10.2021
Avionics Engineer III
Blue Origin
11.2018 - 01.2021
Electrical Engineer
Capella Space
03.2018 - 11.2018
Visiting Researcher
Robotics Interaction Lab, With Dr. Maja Mataric, USC
04.2017 - 08.2017
Electronice Engineer
Visteon Corporation
08.2014 - 07.2016
Student Assistant
P3 Energy And Storage GmbH
05.2012 - 04.2014
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University
10.2011 - 05.2014
Assistant Manager
Reliance Infrastructure
07.2008 - 08.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
PEC University of Technology
07.2004 - 05.2008