Robert Wray

Experience

Robert Wray, located in Dublin, is a project manager for Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute. He specializes in helping Georgia firms develop top-line growth strategies, lean project management, and existing product and process improvement. Wray has 30 years of experience in product design, testing, production implementation, project management, and productivity improvements.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was chief engineer with Husqvarna, a leading producer of lawn and garden equipment with $2 billion annual sales revenue. Within Husqvarna, Wray was instrumental in implementing lean product development methods and led integrated product development teams on strategic multi-million dollar projects.

Wray holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of South Florida, an M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina, and is a certified project management professional.

Expertise

• Process Improvement Quality Management (ISO)
• Project Management

Research Interests

• Planetary surface processes
• Climate history and aqueous environments on Mars
• Oceans in the outer solar system (e.g., Europa)
• Spacecraft remote sensing

Awards

• Shelley Award for Graduate Research in Astronomy, Cornell University, 2010
• Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship, 2006
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2006

Education

• Ph.D., Astronomy, Cornell University, 2010
• M.S., Astronomy, Cornell University, 2009
• A.B., Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 2006