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Mark Rokey
Operations Director
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Education:
- B.S. from Abilene Christian University, in mathematics
- M.S. from Texas A&M University, in computer science
Background:
Mr. Rokey has 20 years of operations experience at JPL and has managed
the development of the mission operations and science data processing
elements of the CloudSat mission since its beginning in 1999. Prior to
this, Mr. Rokey has served as the Ground Systems Lead on the Advanced
Projects Design Team (Team X), a board responsible for the technical
evaluation of future JPL mission concepts. Mr. Rokey's past operational
assignments include: mission controller for the STS-99 Space Shuttle
flight of the Space Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); mission controller
and software developer for the STS-68 Space Shuttle flight of the
Spaceborne Imaging Radar (SIR-C); mission planner for the Mars Observer
mission; mission planner and science coordinator for Magellan mission to
Venus. He has supported numerous mission proposal teams (including
CloudSat) and is the author of numerous referred publications on
operations topics.
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