As Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of CisLunar Industries, Joe is the chief architect of the company’s technologies that support key space capabilities for both government and commercial customers. He has led the TRL advancement of technology from concept to space flight heritage and protected those advancements with patents. While performing on contracts for NASA, Space Force, DARPA, and the ISS National Lab, he has recognized opportunity across the spectrum of customer needs, which has led to the expansion of the company’s business to commercial sales. Prior to his tenure at CisLunar Industries, Joe spent over a decade in senior-level industrial project management, overseeing technical management of dozens of successfully executed multi-million-dollar projects for a variety of fortune 500 companies. He holds numerous patents. Joe earned a Master’s in Engineering in Thermal Fluids Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Space Resources Management from Colorado School of Mines.