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Yudith Ceballos

Project Manager

Summary

Dynamic Project Manager with experience across space launch, satellite integration, and AI/ML data programs. I’ve managed complex, high-risk initiatives involving multiple vendors, tight timelines, and enterprise stakeholders—ranging from launch vehicle certification and multi-payload missions to AI/ML contract execution and continuity planning. TS/SCI w/Poly

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager/COR

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA
09.2025 - Current
  • Served as PM / COR for Advanced Analytics project–aligned AI/ML contracts at NGA, overseeing model development, data labeling, and prime integrator execution to deliver operational computer vision and analytics capabilities
  • Coordinated contractors, integrators, and government stakeholders to manage schedules, risks, and performance across enterprise AI/ML efforts supporting GEOINT missions

Project Manager

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA
09.2024 - 09.2025
  • Managed sensor integration projects onboarding commercial and government satellite constellations to meet DoD service requirements, enabling end to end-based collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination in support of tactical and operational intelligence users
  • Owned schedules, risk, test and evaluation coordination, and MIP-funded budget execution across multi-million-dollar integration efforts, ensuring sensor readiness and uninterrupted delivery of GEOINT capabilities to mission partners

Project Manager

SSC/Mission Manifest Office
09.2023 - 09.2024
  • Managed enterprise launch manifest planning and allocation for DoD national security space missions, integrating CubeSats, SmallSats, and experimental payloads across multi-stack rideshare configurations with ULA and SpaceX to support NSSL execution and schedule integrity.
  • Oversaw multi-payload launch integration, aligning secondary satellites to prime payload schedules and balancing technical constraints (mass, power, interfaces) to maintain manifest stability
  • Tracked readiness, risks, and dependencies, escalating issues to protect launch schedules and mission outcomes

Project Manager/COR

Space System Command
09.2021 - 09.2023
  • Supported Space Systems Command under a government SE&I services contract, providing systems engineering and integration support for launch vehicle certification of next-generation rockets (ULA Vulcan, Blue Origin New Glenn)
  • Executed SE&I contractor support aligned to DoD fiscal-year funding and stakeholder requirements, coordinating engineering activities, tracking certification risks, and supporting SSC decision-making across launch providers
  • Managed contractor deliverables, schedules, and technical risk tracking in support of SSC-led certification efforts tied to National Security Space Launch priorities

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management

San Jose State University
San Jose, California, CA
05.2001 -

Skills

  • Stakeholder Alignment & Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Project Planning, Execution & Delivery
  • Schedule, Dependency & Risk Management
  • Acquisition Strategy & RFP Development
  • Vendor & Prime Integrator Management
  • Budget & Funding Management (Government-Funded Programs)
  • Fluent in Spanish
  • SCRUM/Waterfall methodology

Timeline

Project Manager/COR

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA
09.2025 - Current

Project Manager

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA
09.2024 - 09.2025

Project Manager

SSC/Mission Manifest Office
09.2023 - 09.2024

Project Manager/COR

Space System Command
09.2021 - 09.2023

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management

San Jose State University
05.2001 -
Yudith CeballosProject Manager