Meet The Team

Founder & President
Ray Jimenez, Jr.
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25 years delivering capabilities, building & leading teams, and capturing new business for electro-optical (passive & active) missions, payloads and technologies
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Established relationships with many government & industry partners for both space and terrestrial missions
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Experienced program manager
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Technology lead for enhancing EO payloads and associated technologies supporting National Defense
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Mission, payload, and component design and development expertise from concept through AI&T

MEC Aerospace Consultant
William Heath, PhD
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Over 40 years of combined military service and industry experience designing, developing, and fielding both passive and active EO/IR payloads and systems
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Air Force Lt. Col. (Retired): Lead roles for search and track system development & testing, missile launch and detection, and high energy laser (HEL) development and testing
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Extensive project management and research experience developing infrared surveillance, rocket engine signature reduction (both IR and visible), high-energy laser technology, resonator design, test facility operations, and sensor designs for flight test programs
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Micro-satellite payload design, integration, and launch expertise
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Mission modelling and performance assessment expertise including proficiency in MATLAB, Python, ModTran, and ZEMAX

MEC Aerospace Consultant
Mike Wallner
• 29 years experience across all phases of
the software development lifecycle:
Supporting both space and terrestrial aerospace
payloads and systems
• On-Board Mission Data Processing Experience:
SSA/SDA, OPIR, LIDAR, NASA/Civil Missions
• Embedded software development: Running on
real-time operating systems (RTOS) - VxWorks,
Embedded Linux, others
• Expertise developing fault-tolerant hardware and
software architectures including on-board
redundancy at box, board and component levels,
radiation-induced upset mitigation and EDAC
memory systems/scrubbing
• Vast experience supporting new business
capture phase activities including development
of conceptual SW architectures, software reuse
assessments, cost estimation and schedule
development