Michael Brenner

Michael Brenner has over 22 years of experience in the aerospace industry at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, supporting space imaging systems in the advanced instruments division. He has experience in system engineering, electronics design, optical system design, flight instrument integration and test, flight software development, ground support software development, product delivery management, and project management. His current position is product delivery manager for an advanced mirror development and imaging system.

Mr. Brenner previously was the product delivery manager for advanced optical hardware and drive electronics for a flight demonstrator program. He was responsible for the architecture of a visible/NIR space telescope designed to directly image and spectrally characterize planets and disks around more than 100 of the nearest stars. Previously, Mr. Brenner was the project systems engineer for the Advanced Mirror Development Project responsible for requirements development, ICD generation, Integrated Modeling, and project V&V process through completion. He served as project delivery manager for the Space Interferometer Mission (SIM) Instrument Electronics, responsible for design, fabrication, assembly and testing of flight electronics. Mr. Brenner was a JPL cognizant engineer for the Mid-infrared Instrument (MIRI) focal plane electronics on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), where he was in charge of the design, fabrication, control implementation, assembly and testing of the engineering model and flight hardware deliveries. Previously, Mr. Brenner was an electrical / system engineer for the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), supporting the test and integration of the electronics and interfacing mechanisms, Instrument Ground Support Equipment (IGSE) Software, Flight Software, and Protoflight Environmental Acceptance Test execution.

Michael has a B.S. and master's degree in electrical engineering with emphasis on digital system design and computer architecture from California State University, Northridge.