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For release: 06/21/02
Release #: 02-157
L. Dale Thomas named director of Systems Management Office at NASA’s Marshall Center
L. Dale Thomas has been named director of the Systems Management Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
L. Dale Thomas has been named director of the Systems Management Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
In his new position, Thomas is responsible for the quality of project management and systems engineering used on Marshall Center programs and projects. He will direct development and implementation of project management and systems engineering processes and training programs, and will direct engineering cost analysis and estimation for Marshall programs and projects. He supervises a staff of approximately 30 civil servants and contractors.
Thomas most recently served as the lead systems engineer for NASA’s Space Launch Initiative. He led a team of approximately 45 engineers and technical professionals in systems specification, technology integration, risk management and systems analysis for the Second Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle Program.
Thomas began his NASA career at the Marshall Center in 1983 as an aerospace engineer in the Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory. He has held increasingly challenging positions during his career at Marshall and within NASA, including manager of the International Space Station Vehicle Analysis and Integration Team at Johnson Space Center in Houston; technical assistant to the director of the Marshall Center Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory; chief of the Marshall Systems Test Division; and manager of the Marshall Systems Engineering Office.
A 1977 graduate of Albertville High School in Albertville, Ala., Thomas received his bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1981, and later a doctorate in industrial engineering in 1988. He earned a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., in 1983.
Thomas and his wife, the former Susan Coburn of Huntsville, also a Marshall Center employee, have one daughter.
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