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Dan Lee-Odinson — Technical Program and Systems Manager

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Eleven years delivering enterprise software — requirements, implementation, escalation triage, and unblocking the people who run live systems — now aimed at mission operations, ground segment, and technical program management in the space sector.

I direct multi-model AI workflows to do rigorous technical work, then publish it with its limits intact: eleven DOI-archived Zenodo deposits across four research programs, all ORCID-linked, all reproducible. Self-published, reproducible technical work with explicit scope limits; qualified external engineering review is the next validation step.

I'm not claiming to be a flight-qualified engineer. I'm claiming I can scope rigorous technical work, verify it, ship it, and be accountable for it — and that every claim below is checkable.


Operational track record

Eleven years in enterprise HCM implementation — software delivery, project leadership, requirements analysis, escalation handling, technical support. The number that matters is the tempo, not the total:

Throughput 20–35 client implementations per quarter, sustained for three years at VensureHR
Concurrency 60-client active caseload, held continuously for seven years
Volume ~150 implementations at HUB International, as sole technology specialist for the Northwest region

A continuous, high-tempo delivery load — not a sequence of one-off projects. The queue stays full and I don't fall over. I've since moved onto an internal SME support team: triaging incoming issues, unblocking consultants running live implementations, owning the support queue.

Triage under time pressure, escalation paths, unblocking operators mid-procedure, sustained tempo under continuous load — those are the transferable parts, not the domain. I have not done mission operations, and I won't claim a support queue is the same thing.

anomaly triage · escalation management · requirements analysis · technical program management


Code & tooling

Python JavaScript Wolfram SQL Bash PowerShell LaTeX HTML5

pytest GitHub Actions NumPy Git AWS Chrome Web Store ESP32

Python is the primary language — simulation, numerical analysis, automation, test suites. Closed-form derivations in Wolfram Language, cross-checked against the numerical implementation. My research software ships with CI/CD-enforced pytest suites and versioned releases..


Selected projects

🛰️ Orbital Thermal Bounds — spacecraft thermal control

Python · Wolfram Language · GitHub Actions · v1.1.0 · 259 passing tests

Thermodynamic bounds and mass-trade criteria for heat rejection in orbital data centers: analytic radiator-area bounds, an executable radiator simulation package, and a Phase B chip-to-radiator architecture trade study.

Found and corrected an error in someone else's published model. Reproducing Andrew McCalip's open Space Datacenters orbital-radiator model, I found its cosine-tilt view-factor heuristic underestimated the edge-on per-face Earth view factor by roughly 12×. With exact tilted-plate-to-sphere geometry, equilibrium temperature moves +6.35 K (335.75 K → 342.10 K). Correction, derivation, and verification script published: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20695720.

Scope: reduced-order, one-node model. Not validated against flown hardware. Not for flight design, certification, or safety-critical decisions.

spacecraft thermal control · radiator sizing · heat rejection · trade study


📡 Next Pass — shipped to the Chrome Web Store

JavaScript · Chrome Extension APIs · N2YO API · published v0.6.1

A glanceable countdown to the next visible ISS pass. Pass predictions come from the N2YO API — N2YO propagates the orbit, not me. What I built is the client: a 6-hour cache, graceful degradation with no key / location / network, a background worker scheduling notifications ahead of bright passes, and one-click calendar export (Google Calendar or .ics).

Scoped, tested, and launched by me — including the parts no agent can do: developer account, store submission, public listing, and standing behind it when it breaks. Launched to r/ISS and r/amateursatellites; an SDR operator flagged that several roadmap satellites (NOAA weather sats) are decommissioned and recommended the still-operational Meteor-M series instead. Roadmap updated.

API integration · caching · graceful degradation · shipped product


⚙️ Adversarial Project Method — verification methodology, published

Python · framework v1.0 · preprint DOI · thirteen-gate frozen case record

An evidence-gated review methodology for work that must survive hostile scrutiny before release. One human directs, one LLM builds, a second separately-run LLM attacks. Work moves through gate reviews against predefined acceptance criteria: the Builder freezes a hash-manifested packet (configuration control — findings are cryptographically bound to the exact bytes reviewed), the Reviewer deposits findings as data, and the human Director dispositions every finding on a signed record. A gate passes with zero unaccepted blockers; convergence is declared by a stopping rule fixed before the findings are seen — never on exhaustion.

The result that earns the paper is a failure. Turned on its own tooling, the loop failed five consecutive gates (12, 11, 12, 12, 15 findings) because each fix closed the reviewer's named probe rather than the defect class behind it. The correction — every fix must demonstrate it addressed the class, every check must be witnessed failing before it is trusted — ended the streak. Published on purpose.

technical program management · gate reviews · configuration control · verification & validation


🔬 ISONOMIA — Path A — agent-based simulation

Python · Monte Carlo · v1.1.0 · evidence pinned to commit ba3ddb5 · 73-test suite

The headline result is a failure I found in my own safety instrument. The kill criterion meant to detect a runaway credit spiral took four versions (v0–v3). v2 is the interesting one: it passed honest-noise tests cleanly and missed genuine spirals — a false negative on the instrument that exists to catch the failure.

Method: 300 Latin-hypercube samples × 50 seeds × 3 demand variants = 45,000-run sweeps, plus a separate 45,000-run out-of-sample re-certification, positive and negative control batteries, and seven scripted attack scenarios.

Recorded lesson: a kill criterion is itself a safety mechanism and must be adversarially tested in both directions — showing that honest behavior doesn't trip it is not enough.

Limits: results hold at sampled points only. Nothing is live or production-validated.

agent-based modeling · Monte Carlo · Latin hypercube sampling · fault detection


🚀 RMPC Servicing Payload Concept — closed, unsubmitted

HTML · concept brief and requirements notes, published

An independent concept for an ORU-style robotic on-orbit servicing validation payload, developed for NASA TechLeap's Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge. I didn't assemble a team before the deadline, so I didn't compete.

Every other project here is solo work accelerated by AI. A robotic servicing payload is not — it needs mechanical engineers, flight-hardware experience, environmental test, fabrication. Nobody pulls off a moonshot alone; Apollo was four hundred thousand people. The finding wasn't about the payload: I had built a portfolio and a method, but not yet the professional network that lets you convene a team against a deadline. Building the team is the work, not the overhead around it.

Not an official NASA, TechLeap, or Luminary Labs project.


📚 Full publication record — 11 Zenodo deposits, 12 version DOIs, 4 programs (click to expand)

Nine preprints and two versioned software packages. All ORCID-linked, all versioned, all reproducible. Preprints — not peer reviewed.

Program Domain Deposits
Adversarial Project Method Research governance · multi-model AI verification The Process Is the Product v1.0
Orbital Thermal Bounds Spacecraft thermal control · heat rejection · radiator sizing Bounds preprint · Edge-on geometry + McCalip correction · AI1 design point · Software v1.1.0
ISONOMIA / Path A Agent-based simulation · mechanism design · adversarial robustness Design paper · Evidence release v1.0.0 · Docs release v1.1.0
The Peership Corpus AI governance · constitutional design · research provenance I. Gods and Slaves · II. Peership: A Framework · III. The ISONOMIA Commons · IV. Constitution, Not Cage · V. The Peership Thesis

Paper III is cross-listed — ISONOMIA design paper and corpus paper III, counted once.

Provenance is testable: DOI-versioned deposits with concept and exact-version identifiers kept distinct, SHA-256 checksums proving committed artifacts are byte-identical to their archival deposits, CI/CD-enforced pytest suites, evidence pinned to exact release and commit hashes. The Peership repository carries a 161-entry bibliographic database and a 70-claim provenance ledger recording each claim's source, evidentiary strength, and counterevidence. Its first adversarial review returned FAIL and killed the draft's central claim; that claim is absent from the published paper.

Also: Coworking with Claude — the working log and reusable skill libraries, including a published negative result: an agentic content venture that spent ~$300 and earned $4.08, needing ~73× the revenue to break even. AI is a workflow accelerator; "AI passive income" is a misleading frame.


Education & certifications

🎓 A.A. Liberal Studies Columbia College — Sonora, CA · 2003 (conferred)
🛰️ B.S. Space Studies Everglades University — Boca Raton, FL · in progress
Began April 2026 · estimated completion Spring 2029. Current: Business Ethics. Upcoming: General Physics, GPS Surveying, Spacecraft Systems & Design.
📋 Google Project Management Professional Certificate in progress
Estimated completion October 2026
🐍 freeCodeCamp Python Certification in progress
Estimated completion Spring 2027
☁️ AWS track — Cloud Practitioner → SysOps → Advanced Networking in progress, via hands-on lab environments

Professional memberships: AIAA · IEEE (Robotics & Automation Society; Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society) · The Planetary Society

Also building: Artemis Smartwatch — ESP32 kit, first embedded hardware project · Reading list — spaceflight history, propulsion, autonomous systems, with a written reflection on each finished book.


Where I'm headed

Mission operations · ground segment and ground control operations · technical program management · systems engineering · AI systems integration — in the space sector.

Next up: external engineering review of the Orbital Thermal Bounds Phase B transport and pressure claims (the model needs a qualified human reviewer, and until it has one the repository says so) · OpenC3 COSMOS training · ROS 2 fundamentals → rover build → SLAM/perception and computer vision.

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  1. adversarial-project-method adversarial-project-method Public

    An evidence-gated adversarial-review methodology for AI-assisted research - spec, tools, a frozen case-record, and the attributed preprint.

    Python 1

  2. orbital-thermal-bounds orbital-thermal-bounds Public

    Machine-verified thermodynamic bounds for orbital data-center heat rejection, plus an audit-closed Python radiator-simulation package — headline result: a +6.35 K exact-view-factor correction to Mc…

    Python 2

  3. isonomia-path-a isonomia-path-a Public

    Agent-based simulation of the ISONOMIA Tier-1 launch economics (Path A): mutual-credit supply stability, Harberger convergence, adversarial attack scenarios, kill-criteria calibration.

    Python

  4. peership-corpus peership-corpus Public

    Canonical papers, theses, scholarly apparatus, and review history for Peership: a constitutional research program for human-machine relations.

    TeX

  5. coworking-with-claude coworking-with-claude Public

    A running log of what I've learned working with Claude Cowork framed around the projects I've actually built.

    PowerShell

  6. rmpc-servicing-payload-concept rmpc-servicing-payload-concept Public

    Independent team-forming page for a prospective NASA TechLeap RMPC application.

    HTML