SpaceCom 2017

Joy Kelly
Vice President and Deputy General Manager
Jacobs


Joy Kelly is Vice President and Deputy General Manager of the Jacobs Clear Lake Group in Houston, TX. The group provides design, development, and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human spaceflight; astromaterials curation and basic research at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). In addition to the shared responsibility for over 830 personnel and annual revenue of $140M, Joy leads their innovation grants program, and is a significant driver of innovative thinking throughout the organization. From 2005 to 2008, she served as the Clear Lake Group’s Director of Engineering and Chief Engineer on the contract, supporting the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station programs. Joy assumed the Director of Engineering role during the critical Shuttle return-to-flight program, and led the team through the delivery of many hardware, software, and engineering analysis deliveries for the STS-114 launch in July 2005. During her tenure as Director of Engineering, Joy implemented key leadership initiatives to foster innovative solutions, collaboration among teams, systems thinking rigor, technical excellence, and strong project performance. Joy was previously Technical Fellow in Guidance, Navigation, and Control on the Technical and Engineering Acquisition Support (TEAS) contract at Eglin AFB. In addition to her work for Jacobs, Joy also served as the Director of Systems Engineering and Analysis for two start-up companies, Time Domain and Alereon, where she was responsible for executive leadership for all systems engineering and analysis efforts. These corporations developed technologies and products for ultrawideband wireless communications. During this time she led the systems engineering work for the world’s first 480Mb/s UWB physical layer chipset.

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