James Lowe

Senior manager for Haven 1 integration. Responsible for growing engineering and production teams, determining how to integrate and test Haven 1, standing up integration processes, specifications, facilities, and equipment.

Lead engineer establishing the Starship Range and Recovery team. Responsible for range development, execution, contingency planning, and control room operations to safely launch Starship. Super heavy booster salvage operations to accelerate the iteration process by enabling lessons-learned from flight-flown hardware recovery. Ship recovery design, development, and execution.

Project manager and responsible engineer for Starbase propellant farm fast load upgrades, delivering capability to load vehicle multiple times faster and more reliably. Lead team of over a dozen engineers and hundreds of technicians and contractors to design, manufacture, and install on an insane timeline.

Starbase Orbital Flame Deflector overall execution and manufacturing engineer, responsible for helping develop fluids and mechanical systems, all manufacturing, coordinating logistics, and leading a team of over a dozen engineers, and hundreds of technicians and contractors to deliver the only thing capable of surviving under history’s most powerful rocket in an unimaginable timeline. Starship Orbital Launch Mount 2 (LM2) fluids system engineer, responsible for manufacturing, assisting with design, and managing a team of technicians to build all fluids systems for LM2. LM2 project manager, completing designs and manufacturing with a team of engineers, technicians, logistical support, and contractors.

Lead engineer for MXL Project MXLoon - high altitude, modular, mesh-network system. Designed, tested, and operated command and data handling hardware, flight software, modular structure, communications system, and power system. Lead engineer for MXL Project SPEAR - autonomously steerable parafoil return system for payloads from high altitudes. Designed, tested, and built overall system, flight software, and structure. Lead engineer for high altitude balloon test of components designed for use in Spacebit, a United Kingdom walking Lunar rover. Conducted as a partnership between Michigan eXploration Laboratory and Spacebit North America. Built and tested MC9, 3U CubeSat, flight and engineering development units. Responsible for power system testing, space flight component build, and assembly/operation of the flight vehicle.

Graduate Student Instructor of the CubeSat Flight Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Helped design and teach a class on the design, build, test, and operation of CubeSats that employ space-grade equipment to develop the next generation of aerospace engineers.

Operations manager of a 3,000 soldier Special Forces Group, developing operational and training plans, managing resources, and coordinating and synchronizing activities of the group with national and multinational organizations throughout the world.

Commander of a highly skilled 12 soldier Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha (SFOD-A) specializing in maritime and underwater operations, direct action, and foreign internal defense. Lead team in deployed operations to build, train, equip, and employ a force from the ground up of over 3,000 personnel. Managed equipment employment and accountability in excess of $20 million.

Successfully completed Special Forces Qualification Course, earning Special Forces Tab and Green Beret.

Deputy Operations Manager for a 838 soldier Air Assault Brigade Engineer Battalion.

Executive Officer and second in command of a 105 soldier Air Assault combat engineer (Sapper) company. Responsible for planning, resourcing, coordinating, and synchronizing training and operations.

Assistant Operations Manager for a 513 soldier Air Assault Multi-Functional Engineer Battalion. Responsible for developing training and operational plans, managing resources, and coordinating activities of dozens of units inside and outside of the organization.

Leader of a 30 soldier combat engineer Sapper Platoon, deployed in support of Operation New Dawn in Iraq, and in home station at Fort Campbell, KY. Conducted 100+ combat patrols over 13,000km to clear routes of Improvised Explosive Devices.

BS in Civil Engineering with a Structural Engineering focus. Graduated with Honors.