President & Founder
Dr. George Davis
Dr. George Davis is the President and founder of Emergent Space
Technologies, Inc. He received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from
the University of
Texas at Austin for his research into the precise orbit
determination of low altitude satellites using the Global Positioning
System. His M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, also from the University of
Texas, was on on-orbit assembly operations for lunar and Mars
spacecraft. His interests include GPS applications, autonomous
spacecraft navigation, and orbit determination.
Prior to starting Emergent, he worked for the Technical Services
Division of the Orbital Sciences Corporation as a support contractor at
the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He worked in GSFC's spaceborne
GPS technology group, providing systems engineering, algorithm
development, receiver testing and data analysis support to a variety of
missions, including the International Space Station, EO-1, and VCL. At
the peak of the Internet bubble, he joined Appnet Systems, which became
Commerce One e-Government Solutions, to break into the Information
Technology industry. He supported the development of web portals and
e-commerce exchanges for the federal government. It was there that he
saw the opportunity to apply modern information technologies to the
aerospace industry, and subsequently started Emergent.
When not working, he enjoys coaching his kids in youth sports and
playing softball in the NASA Goddard Softball League. With what little
time he has left, he enjoys fishing and playing golf, and probably
watching too much college football and basketball.
Vice President of Aerospace Systems & Technology
Dr. David Gaylor
Dave Gaylor is Vice President of Aerospace Systems & Technology. He
has over 20 years of experience in astronautical engineering, including
system engineering for satellite constellations, navigation systems
testing and analysis and space operations. He holds a Ph.D. in
Aerospace Engineering from the University
of
Texas at Austin, M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the Air
Force
Institute of Technology and B.S. in Astronautical Engineering from
the U.S. Air Force Academy.
He is currently leading our support to NASA's Orion CEV program from
our recently opened Denver office. Before joining Emergent, he was a
systems engineer and lead orbit analyst for the Teledesic and Iridium
constellations at Motorola. He was a mission analyst for Globalstar at
Space Systems/Loral and a GPS navigation systems analyst at the Central
Inertial Guidance Test Facility (CIGTF), Holloman AFB, NM. He served on
active duty in the U.S. Air Force for eight years. He was the Chief of
Engineering for a mission control complex and the lead Operation
Director for three Strategic Defense Initiative satellite programs
while stationed at the Consolidated Space Test Center, Onizuka AFB, CA.
He also served as an inertial navigation systems analyst at CIGTF.
Vice President of Information Systems & Technology
Mr. Everett Cary
Everett Cary joined Emergent in 2002 as the Vice President of
Information Systems and Technology. He has over twelve years of
experience in developing, deploying, and managing software solutions
across a variety of domains, from desktop to enterprise applications.
He now applies this experience to the aerospace domain. He holds a B.S.
in Computer Science from the University
of Maryland. His professional interests include software
architecture and software process.
While at Emergent, he has been the Principal Investigator for a
government-funded program and has been active in applying modern
information technologies towards automation of satellite ground
systems. Prior to joining Emergent, he designed, developed, and
supported a variety of software applications, including web and
e-commerce portals, desktop, and enterprise business application. He
was also a certified Rational Unified Process trainer and a Sun
Certified Java Programmer.
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