Education.  B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University, 1996.

Current Assignment.  In his current role as Market Area Lead, Jason manages the High Speed Tactical Booster (HSTB) program portfolio for NG’s Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) site which includes leadership of program manager direct reports as well as profit/loss responsibility for the HSTB program portfolio.  In parallel, he is also the lead program manager on the HACM SRM hypersonic development, qualification and flight test program with full responsibility over execution of the contract’s scope, schedule, and cost requirements.

Experience. 

Previously, Jason served as lead program manager on the ARRW (hypersonic) SRM contract beginning with PDR in 2018 and culminating in successful qualification and missile flight testing in 2022.  As programmatic lead, he had full responsibility for scope, schedule, cost and team management during the fast paced, execution of the ARRW contract.  Prior to this assignment, he was lead program manager on the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Mulit-Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) as well as deputy program manager on NASA’s Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor (LAS ACM) program at Northrop Grumman in Elkton, MD.

Jason also previously held the position of Value Stream Element Team (VSET) Leader in charge of the Final Assembly and Testing operations areas at NG’s Elkton, MD facility. In this role he was responsible for the exeuctdion and continuous improvement of all program scope that passed through the workcenters. Prior to this assignment, he served as lead program manager on several fast paced, development programs including: Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS) Technology Risk Reduction (TRR) program,  MDA Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM) TRR program, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement non-eroding throat program with Plasma Processes, and the Multi-Stage Supersonic Target (MSST) project with the US Navy. For all of these development projects, he was responsible for overall program leadership, contract execution, and profit/loss with the assignment spanning April 2010 through February 2015.

Prior to the VSET Leader assignment, Jason was a program manager on the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS) ACM project from 2007 through 2010. During this time, he served as operations implementation manager and was primarily responsible for the execution and oversight of in-plant manufacturing activities on five subscale high-thrust (HT) test motors, one full-scale inert mock-up, two full-scale development static test motors, and ultimately the first Pad Abort–1 (PA-1) flight deliverable motor. In addition to managing the hardware build activities in plant, he performed cost account manager (CAM) Earned Value Management System (EVMS) duties and presented monthly EVMS reports directly to the customer. He also succesfully supported multiple Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) EVMS audits as the program required.

Prior to Jason’s transfer to the Program Management office in 2007, he worked as lead nozzle engineer on the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) program, with primary design responsibility for the Stage 2 trapped-ball nozzle. This nozzle was directly based on his previous engineering development work as lead nozzle design engineer on the Advanced Solid Axial Stage (ASAS™) 32-58V rapid vectoring nozzle (RAVEN) booster program which successfully demonstrated TVC nozzle capability of +/- 12° of deflection at slew rates exceeding 200°/sec during a full scale rocket motor ground test. Prior engineering assignments also included being the lead engineer on the Tactical Hybrid Rocket Engine Applied Technology (THREAT) program for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The THREAT program included the design, development, and testing of a hybrid (liquid and solid propellant) combustion system. Additional past experience includes the lead enginer role on gun launched rocket motors for for US Navy applications as well as an extensive manufacturing engineering background in the production of solid rocket motors.