Paquita Bailey
President and Chief Executive Officer
Notable Accomplishments
- Lead Technical/Sr Design and Release Engineer
- General Motors Corporation
- Commercial Development/Biomedical Engineering and Flight Mission Management
- Lockheed Martin / Engineering and Sciences Company / NASA Washington DC HQ’s & The Johnson Space Center
- Systems Safety Engineer
- Boeing Aerospace Company
- Graduate of Prairie View A&M University, 1979 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics
Paquita Bailey is a retired Mechanical Engineer with experience in automotive transportation and with experience in space shuttle transportation. Bailey has worked in numerous capacities within engineering for over 38 years providing program test vehicle validation and program management, vehicle hardware design, prototype and production tool manufacturing, product development, systems engineering, Space Shuttle crew system safety, and space flight and ground mission management. Using her technical knowledge, she participated in highly complex problem-solving methods using quantitative and qualitative data to find solutions for complex problems inherent to specific designs.
She managed budgets that ranged from 1.3 to 320 million dollars. Her responsibilities included identifying, interpreting, and recommending change to the NASA design requirements. Bailey was recognized by NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. with a National Space Transportation System Program Commendation for her contribution to the i.e. Space Station Heat Pipe Radiator. She was also recognized for work in Space Life Sciences and deep probe satellites with multimillion-dollar budgets, including The Space Radar Lab a 5-ton earth observer satellite witch was a joint 320-million-dollar international project sponsored by the United States, Germany, and Italy. The United States contribution was 160 million dollars.
Not only did Bailey provide engineering assistance to the NASA centers through the Johnson Space Center Flight Projects Office but to other R&D centers as follows: Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Langley Research Center, Lewis Research Center, George C Marshall Space Flight Center, and White Sands Test Facility.
The European agencies she supported were DARA in Bonn W. Germany/Federal Republic of Germany; Deutsch Luft Und Raumfahrt in Oberpfaffenhofen/Federal Republic of Germany; Dornier Systems GMBH in Friedrichshafen/Federal Republic of Germany and the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana in Rome, Italy.
Bailey served as an engineering and management advisor and operative supervisor on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Consortium for Materials Development in Space, Instrumentation Technologies Associates Incorporated, the University of Colorado in Boulder, BioServe Space Technologies which grew to receive contracts from the Russian Space Agency. Her efforts helped to design space-related patented medical hardware. Through her efforts, Bailey was instrumental in developing spin-off companies in pharmaceutical research using the Space Shuttle biomedical programs NASA implemented to create jobs as a taxpayer give back program; all within the United States by NASA Washington D.C. Headquarters Office of Advance Concepts and Technology, Flight Programs Office. This Office was to implement their space flight program at their 16 research centers for the Commercial Development of Space, with an additional 150 corporate affiliate members who joined in building partnerships with industries whose ultimate end was to generate commerce in space. Budgets Paquita managed were up to 10 million in grants sponsored under the H.W. Bush Administration.
Bailey dedicated 23 years of service to the success of General Motors Technical Engineering Center for product development. She led cross-functional engineering teams and managed multimillion-dollar project teams based in North America, Germany, Italy, China, South Korea, Latin America, Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
She was awarded a General Motors Chairman’s Honors Lifetime Award for the execution of the first Escalade Cadillac. It’s design was for exhibiting superior originality and creativity in making significant and exemplary contributions toward the accomplishment of the Corporations stated worldwide business objectives. Her last release was the Buick Envision, the first mid-size luxury SUV built in China. Bailey has received over 25 awards and is recognized for her numerous contributions during her career. She held a Secret Security Clearance with the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) and the US Department of Defense.