Donald Richardson

Donald Richardson received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. He is currentaly a Software Developer and Scientist who has worked on several projects for NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). For NASA, he has worked on data analysis and software development for the Upper Atmosphere Reseach Satellites' Halogen Occulation Experiment, the Cosmic Background Explorer, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, and Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectrometer. In the late 1990s, he was the Vice President of Flytecomm of Florida, a small startup company developing software products to track in-flight aircraft based on a FAA data feed. For the past four years, he has been the Lead Programmer for NRL's WindSat and is responsible for the design and implementation of the processing code.