Garrett Katzenstein MBA Finance, Mechanical Engineer

“14,411 Feet High … + 6”

An entertaining guide to Mr. Katzenstein’s resume … and unique world!

Overview

Most comfortable when communicating and working with others Good at fostering positive business and personal relationships Humble yet natural leader. A good team builder Competitive, brings out the best in others, leads by example Large breadth of experience Work hard play hard person A very hands on person An explorer at heart

Timeline

Professional Accomplishments

Indy 500: Successfully supported six Indy Racing Teams for the 2000 Indy 500. One of these teams finished 3rd

Caltech: Completely re-designed GalCIT 17” Shock Tube. Conducted experiments geared towards the advancement of inertial confinement fusion. Watched 3 of my students receive their Catech doctorates

WolfKatz: Successfully started my own consulting company (WolfKatz Engineering LLC) with customers that included Bell Solid State Thermoelectrics and Caltech

Alliance: Acted as the Program Manager and Project Engineer (some projects) on 4 separate JPL programs. All resulted in the delivery of Flight Hardware to JPL on budget and on schedule

SpaceX: Mission Manager on the largest commercial NASA contract ever. Dragon Capsule powered by Falcon 9 Rocket reached the International Space Station successfully in May of 2012 making history.

Personal Accomplishments Completed both my ME and MBA

degrees Successfully ran two separate

large scale student projects Backpacked the entire JMT with

my father and others Climbed Mt. Rainier Obtained my racing license,

competed in 25 Hrs of Thunderhill. Team Captain of our 24 Hrs of Lemons team “Heisenberg Racing”

Completed various 100 mile bicycle rides

Worked as the volunteer assistant coach for the Caltech Tennis Team during their first ever winning season

Happily married

History of Leadership

Student Vice President, KidSAT (a founding member)

Student President, UCSD Formula SAE Team (a founding member)

Co-Founder, Heisenberg Racing (yes, that’s a Nitrogen powered marshmallow Gatling gun)

Project Engineer / Program Manager 4 contracts at Alliance

Mission Manager (Program Manager) CRS and COTS programs at SpaceX

In Detail:Alliance Spacesystems LLC / MDA

Always customer facing Delivered MSL Cruise Stage

Secondary Structure Fixed Price contract On time and budget 19 Contract mods

Delivered MSL Cruise Stage Solar Array Substrates

Fixed Price Built at AASC, third party contractor

Delivered MSL TDSS Radar Structure Fixed Price, on time and on budget

Delivered MSL EM Robitic Arm. FM in production now

Cost Plus Fee contract EM Arm missed delivery date by one

day. Under budget. FM Arm in production now 39 contract mods Program peaked with 37 employees

billing, over half our company Largest program ever attempted by

Alliance

In Detail:Space Exploration Technologies

Always customer facing All contracts fixed price COTS Contract (Demonstration

Flights) Lead the entire organization to

successfully close several large milestones allowing the Dragon Capsule to safely approach and berth with the ISS

Worked on console during recent mission acting as the primary point of contact between the international partners whom manage the ISS and SpaceX

CRS Contract (Future Flights) Sole point of contact to NASA for

two future Dragon flights to the ISS

Closed and negotiated multiple milestone payments with NASA totally in the hundreds of millions of dollars

Professional Goals Become an important

cog in a growing technical organization where my impact can be felt

Further develop my leadership skills

Mentor others Work in a organization

where dramatic career growth is possible and opportunity exists

Thanks for your time. Any Questions?

Fun Links

EarthKAM (KidSAT) GALCIT (Caltech Graduate

Areospace Labs) WolfKatz Engineering LLC Alliance Spacesystems (MDA) Heisenberg Racing (My 24Hrs of

Lemons Team) SpaceX