James Ralston

Background

About James Ralston

Professional Experience: Inspected space flight hardware for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Working with prime contractor to develop weld schedule, vendor survey/evaluation for next generation camera for NATO. Recipient of Space Flight Awareness Award for involvement in NASA Space Program. Being selected to oversee initial build of Ball Aerospace Spacecraft build for Goddard Space Flight Center on QuikScat (SeaWinds) satellite. Writing of QuikScat Satellite and ICESat Spacecraft Red Book that was finally approved by NASA Management. Interfacing with various universities as a working partner to insure various specifications were properly implemented for various satellite's and assist with their individual Matrix's. Goals: Owning my own business has been extraordinary goal and under-taking. Dealing with a wide variety of individuals from training coordinators, instructors and payment issues has made me wiser business person. Specialties: Government and University liaison, contractual/FAR requirements. Solving failure issues; evaluating work flow processes and ways to improve production. Working as a team and team leader to meet the same goals on any particular project. Trained/working knowledge in welding, composite, RF (antenna), sheet metal layout/bending, optics theory/tooling, Non-Destructive Inspection (Level II), Series, Statistical Sampling, Calibration Systems and Requirements, Packaging/Shipment.