Meet Our Team
Read the biographies for some of the leaders behind NASA's Exploration Ground Systems at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Shawn Quinn
As the program manager of NASA Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems Program, Shawn Quinn has overall responsibility for developing the necessary ground systems while refurbishing and upgrading infrastructure and facilities to meet tomorrow's demands.
Jeremy W. Parsons
As the deputy manager for the Exploration Ground Systems Program, Jeremy Parsons assists the program manager in management, leadership and direction to ensure safe and effective execution of all EGS Program systems development, processing and integration requirements and the implementation of Kennedy Space Center's goals and objectives.
Robert A. Yaskovic
As the associate manager of NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, Robert A. Yaskovic, Jr., assists the program manager and deputy program manager to lead the government and contractor team preparing the ground systems, infrastructure, facilities, and processes required for NASA’s Artemis space launch systems and spacecraft.
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson serves as launch director for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program. She oversaw the countdown and liftoff of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during its first flight test, called Artemis I.
Scott B. Wilson
Scott B. Wilson serves in a cross-program role as manager of production operations for the Orion Program and of offline processing and infrastructure development for the Exploration Ground Systems Program.
Darrell Foster
Darrell Foster is the ground systems integration manager (GSIM) with the Exploration Ground Systems Program where he manages the simultaneous development, verification and validation, activation, and sustaining engineering of exploration development projects.
Clifton Lanham
Cliff Lanham is the senior vehicle operations manager for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program. In this role, he is responsible for the overall management, planning, integration, and execution of all operational activities required for the launch readiness of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket on Artemis deep space flight missions.
Chad Brown
Chad Brown is the division chief for the Future Projects Office in NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program. In this position, Brown is focused on supporting future Artemis campaign efforts and providing the strategic framework for how the unique skills developed in EGS can be leveraged to make the enterprise more successful.
Melissa Jones
As the division chief of Operations and Test Management for the Exploration Ground Systems Program, Jones is responsible for all staffing, resources, and facilities used for flight hardware processing, launch, and recovery for Artemis missions.
Anton Kiriwas
Anton Kiriwas is the senior technical integration manager for the Exploration Ground Systems Program and serves as the senior launch project engineer for the crewed Artemis II launch, chair the Program Review Board, and advise program management on risks.
Sean Arrieta
Sean Arrieta is the NASA operations manager for Integrated Operations in Exploration Ground Systems and his responsibilities include overseeing the team in planning and executing all operations, testing, and checkout tasks for the Orion spacecraft.
Anthony Bartolone
Tony Bartolone is a launch project engineer within the Vehicle Integration Office and serves as a lead for the operations project engineers team who staff the integration console throughout the testing and processing of the Artemis launch vehicle and spacecraft.
Jesse Berdis
Jesse Berdis is the deputy project manager for the mobile launcher element Artemis II modifications project. Berdis provides leadership in development activities of the mobile launcher design, development, fabrication, construction, and testing.
Glenn Chin
Glenn Chin is a NASA deputy chief in the Orion Production Operations Office for the Orion Program. His primary responsibilities are to manage the assembly, integration, test, and production flow of the Orion spacecraft.
Allison Mjoen
Allison Mjoen is an operations project engineer whose responsibilities include the development and implementation planning of operations and launch requirements for vehicle/payload processing, launch, and recovery.
Wes Mosedale
As the technical assistant to the Artemis I launch director, Wes Mosedale assists the launch director in the technical coordination of launch-related content with the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, and for the integration of launch-related requirements.