Summary
Matthew O'neil is a Deputy Instrument Systems Engineer at NASA Goddard with over 15 years of engineering and supervisory experience and a decade of professional work with the US Federal Government. He brings deep structural dynamics expertise and hands-on fluency with Nastran, Patran, Femap, IDEAS, ADAMS, Matlab, Fortran, and Perl to complex aerospace instrument challenges. His background spans manufacturing, systems engineering, and military service, giving him a practical edge in translating field constraints into robust designs. A Columbia MS graduate with a BS from Portland State, he excels at bridging analytical modeling and hands-on integration on flight hardware. Colleagues rely on him for clear reporting, performance analysis, and pragmatic troubleshooting under schedule pressure. He combines government and military discipline with a curiosity for tooling and data-driven decision-making that often uncovers nonobvious failure modes early in development.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Portland State University