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Mr. Zelon (MS, MBA, PMP) has over 40 years of diverse experience working with large and small companies providing program management, project engineering, systems engineering, organization design, program and product development, Concept of Operations (ConOps) definition, strategic planning, conceptual design, hardware development and risk management.  Approximately 10 years of his experience has involved working with international participants.  He has led the definition, management and timely delivery of multiple complex hardware items for space and terrestrial applications. His most recent activities have supported the NASA human lunar lander docking/refueling mechanism definition, commercial Low Earth Orbit destination ConOps development, commercial small satellites and various ISS payload developments.  He is currently an active participant with multiple start-up companies helping them to establish their product development and investment acquisition strategies. 

Over the last five years, Mr. Zelon has provided technical program definition and concept of operations design support to multiple commercial space companies including Space Adventures and Blue Origin.  Prior to that, Mr. Zelon was the Vice President and Chief Engineer for the commercial Excalibur Almaz program leading product development and systems integration of hardware, software and the ground support infrastructure for a space commercial tourist complex.  He was the program manager for a NASA space act agreement to define crew transportation service options employing this system.  He has three patents related to this effort.

While at Boeing, Mr. Zelon was director of the Shuttle Houston Payload Cargo and Systems Integration organization with responsibility for certification of flight readiness of all Shuttle cargo bay elements for ~3 flights per year from 1994-2000 inclusive of certification for all passive and active environments that might impact mission success.  He transitioned to the International Space Station (ISS) and assumed responsibility for establishing the organization and subsequent program management of the development of ISS Flight Support Equipment (FSE), Orbital Support Equipment (OSE) inclusive of the Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism (FRAM), Ground Support Equipment (GSE), on-orbit external storage and payload systems inclusive of the first two ISS External Storage Platforms (ESPs) – ESP 1 and ESP 2.