Biographical Summary

About Launch Guest Briefings

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• Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
• Graduated from Southern University A&M College in 1989 with a BS in Electrical Engineering. 
• Launched a career with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in 1990 as an AST, Electronics Design Engineer in the Engineering Development Directorate, which has since become Spaceport Engineering and Technology.
• Has a decade of design experience in digital data, voice and video communication systems for ground support equipment. 
• Contributed to System and Subsystem level design for the Digital-Operational and Intercom System (OIS-D), KSC's main communication system for launch and payload processing. 
• Hardware Design Engineer for the Control System of Operational Television-Modernization Project, which implements the upgrade of KSC's cameras, recorders and displays from analog to digital technology. 
• Currently, Hardware Lead Engineer for NASA's IVHM Technology Experiments for X-34 (NITEX-43). Responsible for designing the hardware which will receive, process and archive telemetry data from flight experiments aboard technology testbed demonstrators or space vehicles. 
• Married with three children and lives near Orlando, Florida.
• Besides being a wife, mother, and engineer, Michelle is a competent leader and communicator in Toastmasters International, serves as Stake President of the children's programs for seven churches, is an active Boy Scout Committee Member, participates in the KSC Outreach program as a volunteer for career days and science fairs, and volunteers in the agency's Women of NASA Program by encouraging girls and women to study science through live web chats and forums. 

    Biography last updated - May 2001

Involvement in pre-launch briefings can take one of three forms -- either as the master of ceremonies, a presenter or a scriptwriter.  The briefing is composed of two twenty minute presentations -- one that focuses on KSC as a wildlife refuge and also provides an overview of Shuttle processing, followed by a second presentation that highlights projected mission, science and crew activities.

Currently working to expand her communication skills to include video, multimedia and web presentations.

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