Email: nvetcha@gmail.com

I am a Team Lead at Amentum Space Exploration Division supporting ASED ESSCA contract at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. As a Team Lead, I serve a team of Subject Matter Experts that perform tests and analyses in support of Aerosciences branch. I also teach engineering courses at University of Alabama Huntsville. Prior to this, I worked as Centennial Challenges' Challenge manager and liquid propulsion analyst on the same contract supporting the testing and analysis of RS-25 engine. Before entering propulsion world, I was a staff Engineer at ManTech (Nexolve), where I worked on the shape testing of James Webb Space Telescope's Sunshield.  Before joining ManTech, I worked as an Application Engineer at ESI US R&D. My work involved modeling and analysis of complex multiphysics problems and improving the CFD-ACE+ Suite of Multiphysics softwares. After finishing PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2012-2013) and before that as a Graduate student researcher (2008-2012) at the Fusion Science & Technology center at University of California Los Angeles.