Leadership
OneTerra’s executive management team has successfully launched and operated over 100 satellites in both the public and in the private sector. The team has multiple decades of experience in Program Management, Start-Up Enterprises, Human Space Flight Operations, Satellite Command & Control Operations, Space Systems Design Engineering, and Aerospace Systems Research & Development. Our team has seen the development and dependency upon Information Systems over the past decades, from dial-up modems that were time consuming and lacked bandwidth to the present day where higher bandwidth and access to private and cloud-based systems have become the norm. We recognize that we are in an information driven age and access to such information is invaluable and paramount to successful endeavors.
Founder
Craig Walton, Craig has over 25 years’ experience in Manned and Unmanned Space Flight Operations. Craig has served with NASA as a Senior Flight Controller, Project Engineer, and Operations Safety Engineer with Aerospace Systems Designer, Aerospace Safety, and Off-Nominal anomaly resolution experience. Craig is a demonstrated leader in building, training, and leading successful high-performance teams and conducting sophisticated technical operations across multi-disciplines and international agencies. Craig’s experience with successful space start-ups includes NanoRacks LLC, where he served as the Deputy Director of Operations, taking the company from a $2 million startup to a $38 million ongoing operation.
Chief Executive Officer
Trey Duplechin, Trey has over 25 years of experience in the Satellite and Telecommunication Industry. Trey previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Elite Communications Services, delivering satellite and wide-band services to the US Energy sector. Founder & Managing Director of inGen Industries specializing in telecom construction services. He has previously served as COO to Global Energy service, and as Network Architect where his capacity to create and deliver competitive services to remote locations in some of the harshest environments on earth. Trey also serves as a technology advisor to the Cajun Navy relief supporting rescue and humanitarian missions in the wake of natural disasters.
Chief Strategy Officer
Shaun Fitzpatrick – LtCol, USMC (ret.). 28 years of experience in military operational planning, logistics, classified materials management, foreign command liaison, and strategic information operations. He directed the strategic, political, and direct contact operations for 1900 Marines in multi-national, foreign deployments. Founding member of the USMC Information Operations Program. Former Marine Corps University adjunct professor. Shaun has been involved in international strategic negotiations on issues ranging from nuclear non-proliferation to cross-national disaster response. Advanced military certifications in cannon, rocket, and missile operations.
Chief Technology Officer
Douglas Wilson – 15 years space operations experience with NASA on both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. Former Lead Designer and Flight Test Engineer for VaeroDynamics. Former Deputy Director of Satellite Operations and Lead Test and Integration Director at Nanoracks, LLC. Doug has personally supervised the design, launch, and flight operations for more than one hundred satellites.
Chief Engineer
Don Platt – PhD Industrial Engineering – Dr Platt has over 30 years of experience in a Aerospace, Systems and Bio-Tech engineering and technology development. Dr. Platt has designed multiple space systems and led design teams from initial satellite concept to flight test operations to evaluate subsystems including avionics systems, attitude control systems, environmental control & life support systems, software control systems, sensor and communications systems for satellites and reentry vehicles. Don is presently developing multiple satellite propulsion systems including cold-gas, hydrazine, peroxide/kerosene and a tridyne system for use on all of LaMont’s satellite classes.
Lead RF Engineer
Andrei Petrov, BS Electrical Engineering (Radio Engineering), MS Physics, PhD Communication Systems Engineering. A Senior RF Engineer with over 25 years of experience in RF/microwave engineering and wireless systems design. Andrei holds a He has industry-wide experience in a variety of electronic-related fields including: RF, microwave, wireless, communication, embedded systems, analog circuits design optimization, software defined radios (SDR), direct conversion radios (DCR), discrete-time receivers (D-T), high efficiency transmitters, electromagnetic compatibility, interference/jammer immunity, antennas design, RF systems performance evaluation, signals acquisition and detection theory, spread spectrum communication and radar systems. Andrei led RF/Mix-signal circuit design engineering teams in design, research and test efforts in diverse areas such as RF, microwave, wireless, communication, embedded and antenna systems fields. He is proficient in wireless systems design and analysis; RF, microwave, analog design; communication systems theory; technical project management, circuits analysis, design troubleshooting & test and spectrum management.