Paul Geroulo

Vice President Systems Engineering

BlackSky

Apr 2023 - Current (3 years 6 months)

Fellow, Systems Engineering & Integration

BlackSky

Jul 2022 - Apr 2023 (10 months)

Responsible for advising BlackSky's engineering leadership through engagement, collaboration and oversight of development teams. The charter of this role is to work across the development and systems engineering teams to foster a unified view of readiness and risk for subset of priority initiatives to ensure that prominent engineering objectives are well coordinated and successful through the following activities:
-- Coordination of development, test and product go to market readiness dates across associated development teams ensuring unification, alignment effective risk decision making across development teams to achieve associated business milestone.
-- Development of coordinated plans, approaches and schedules which consider m

Vice President Ground Systems & Operations

HySpecIQ

Dec 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 7 months)

Responsible for managing a multi-company team tasked with the design, implementation, and deployment of a satellite ground system capable of operating HySpecIQ’s future constellation of hyperspectral satellites. Also responsible for building an operations team tasked with launch support, commissioning and commercial operation of the HySpecIQ constellation. Operations to include flight operations, the production of HySpecIQ products and customer service.

Vice President Engineering & Operations (BlackSky)

BlackSky

Oct 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 3 months)

Responsible for managing a multi-discipline organization composed of the following teams:
-- Systems Engineering
-- Software Development
-- GEOINT Analysis
-- Platform Operations (Imagery and Analytics Services)

Space Industry Consultant

BlackSky

Aug 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 3 months)

Providing full time engineering expertise in support of Spaceflight Industries planned constellation of 60 earth imaging satellites. Support activities include but are not limited to the following:
-- Orbit modeling (for performance assessment and competitive analysis).
-- Ground system CONOPS and architecture specification.
-- Development of the BlackSky analytics platform:
(i) Requirements and CONOPS definition.
(ii) Strategic planning and program management support.

Vice President, Operations

UrtheCast

Aug 2013 - Feb 2016 (2 years 7 months)

Responsible for the startup and operation of UrtheCast's Northern Virginia office. Managed a small operations and engineering team in support of the following projects:

-- UrtheCast Gen-1 earth imaging system (two optical cameras deployed on the International Space Station (ISS)).
(i) Development, deployment and support of a mission planning system responsible for the daily scheduling of image and video collections.
(ii) Mission planning operations including the daily coordination of activities with ROSCOSMOS (Mission Control Center – Moscow), NASA (Mission Control Center – Houston) and UrtheCast operations in Vancouver.
(iii) Downlink planning including the daily scheduling of downlink activities with KSAT and o

Vice President Ground Systems Engineering (transitional)

digitalglobe

Feb 2013 - Aug 2013 (7 months)

Assumed a transition role following the acquisition of GeoEye by DigitalGlobe. Responsible for leading Herndon engineering activities to ensure the successful transition of GeoEye-1 operational ground systems to Longmont and the closeout and shutdown of ground systems for GeoEye-2. Responsible for maintaining close communication with headquarters management in Longmont, CO.

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Vice President Ground Systems Engineering

GeoEye

Feb 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year)

Responsible for satellite ground system development and operational support for GeoEye’s growing constellation of imaging satellites. Managed the engineering teams and budgets needed to support ground activities for GeoEye-1 (operational) and GeoEye-2 (under development). Engineering teams supported the following legacy systems and in parallel developed the next generation replacement systems:
-- Flight Dynamics System
-- Collection Planning System
-- Command & Control System
-- Antenna Systems

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Director Command & Control Systems

GeoEye

Mar 2009 - Jan 2012 (2 years 11 months)

Promoted to Director of Command & Control Systems providing engineering support for satellite ground system development and operations. Activities included:
-- GeoEye-1 operations support for the following ground system components: Command & Control System, Collection Planning System, Flight Dynamics System
-- Proposal support for the EnhancedView program, a follow on NGA contract
-- Design, development and deployment of the next generation ground system in support of the EnhancedView program and GeoEye-2.
-- Managed vendors responsible for providing GeoEye-1 and GeoEye-2 ground components.

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Senior Principal Engineer

GeoEye

Aug 2008 - Mar 2009 (8 months)

Managed a small engineering team responsible for the deployment and support of two key satellite ground components: Command & Control System and Collection Planning System for GeoEye-1:
-- Provided ground support during launch and on orbit checkout.
-- Once full operational capability was achieved, provided continuing engineering support to operations including, 24/7 support for problem resolution and special activities, performance analysis, and enhancement development, checkout and deployment.
-- Responsibilities included management of vendors responsible for the development and maintenance of command & control system and collection planning system.

Senior Systems Engineer

Orbit Logic

Jul 2005 - Aug 2008 (3 years 2 months)

Responsible for supporting and managing engineering activities associated with Orbit Logic’s newest product line, image collection planning systems used to support satellite collection planning activities.
-- Upon joining the company quickly assimilated the requirements and design for Orbit Logic’s image collection planning system offering to GeoEye, and successfully completed test plan and procedure development required for a customer CDR.
-- Following CDR assumed the role of lead systems engineer responsible for a broad range of development and test activities including scheduling and tracking of internal development activities, FAT/SAT and post SAT onsite support, and primary customer interface for problem analysis and resolu

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Director Software Development

L Communications Storm Control Systems

Sep 1993 - Jun 2005 (11 years 10 months)

Upon joining the company took responsibility for the development of new features for Storm’s flagship command and control product. As the product development team grew, was promoted to the technical lead role responsible for product architecture and design and then to software product manager. Later took on the role as Director Software Development, a multifaceted role that evolved to meet rapidly changing business needs and company restructuring.

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Staff Software Engineer

IBM Federal Systems Division

Aug 1984 - Aug 1993 (9 years 1 month)

Joined the software organization responsible for developing IBM’s satellite command and control system (DSM) for the Air Force. Transitioned to classified projects and then to an internally funded project for the development of a commercial high-speed image processing system.

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