Wayne is currently the Chief Engineer for the Instruments and Science Data Systems Division at JPL. His current responsibilities include trouble shooting science instrument problems and insuring instruments meet performance, schedule, and cost requirements. He also chairs both instrument design reviews and design teams for on-orbit and in situ science instrument payloads for planetary, lunar, and Earth science missions. Prior to this position, he was the Deputy Section Manager for the Planetary Mobility and Robotics Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech. He has been involved in Mars planetary instrument design and instrument delivery/sampling platforms through the Mars 98 MVACS lander mission, Mars01 Odyssey lander/rover, and most recently, the Mars Phoenix Scout mission. He is actively involved in sampling handling/processing/delivery technology development and insertion into flight projects like the MSL CHEMIN X-ray diffraction instrument and the Mars Scout UREY astrobiology instrument. Wayne lead the design team for a Europa deep ice probe, called the cryobot. He was also the Chief Engineer for the subsequent research effort which resulted in the first prototype integrated cryobot/instrument payload tested on the island of Svalbard, above the Arctic Circle. Subsequent to that successful field test, he became the project element manager for the Mars CryoScout cryobot system which competed in the recent Mars Scout mission competition. He was also a co-investigator for developing a Europa icy body surface science drop off probe for JIMO, and co-investigator for a Titan combined aerial platform and subsurface ice probe research effort funded by the recent NASA Code S Visionary Missions NRA. He has also led two other Europa science drop-off probe design efforts over the last five years.

• B.S. in Fluidics (Major: Aerospace Engineering), 1969; Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH
• M.S. in Aerospace Systems Engineering/Management, 1972; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

• Planetary ices/ice chemistry
• Earth polar ice
• Planetary ice penetrators and probes
• Sample acquisition, handling, and distribution technologies

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California (1977-present)
• Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor (MVACS), 1998 (Robotic Arm)
• Mars 01 Surveyor, 2001 (Robotic Arm and Rover)
• Mars Phoenix Lander, 2007 (Robotic Arm and Bio-barrier)
• Mars Science Lander, 2009 (CHEMIN and TLS instruments)

• NASA Awards for Excellence - 8
• NASA Certificates of Recognition - 5
• NASA Group Achievement Awards - 4

• 85 technical papers — copies of 3 latest conference/journal papers available electronically

Co-author of 2 books:
1. Automated/Robotic System Design, AIAA, 1994
2. Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis, Handbook of Technology Management, 1986