MVCTC Success Story, Charles Nick
01/27/2015
Alumni, Charles Nick, started his career as a MVCTC Electronics Engineering student from Arcanum graduating in 1996. Charles was a part of the MVCTC Apprenticeship Program that allowed him to gain hands-on experience working at Dayton Speedometer. He went on to work as an avionics technician for seven years.
Charles shared, "I shifted my career to writing maintenance manuals for aerospace (Boeing, Raytheon, etc) and space (NASA and Virgin Galactic)."
While at NASA, Charles received commendations for his work. The first came from Kevin Window, Manager Vehicle Office for the International Space Station. It says, "I would like to acknowledge Mr. Charles Nick of Manufacturing Technical Solutions (MTS) for his outstanding contribution in creating a logistics data review process to approve the maintenance data on the International Space Station Program. Mr. Nick is to be commended for his important and continuous contributions to the International Space Station's Integrated Logistics Support effort."
The second commendation letter, also form Kevin Window, states, "Mr. Nick was instrumental in identifying and correcting previously unidentified [issues] on the International Space Station. Mr. Nick is recognized for his dedicated work to ensure the safety of the International Space State crew."
When asked how MVCTC helped prepare him for his career, Charles said, "The excellent teaching staff and challenging curriculum trained us to do our best."
MVCTC is very proud of Charles Nick and the success he has realized from his start at MVCTC. Way to go Charles!
(2nd from left is Koichi Wakata, 3rd from right is Charles Nick) - "I wrote the first on-orbit soldering procedures that we were training Koichi Wakata to perform."
- - (far left is Charles Nick) - "I wrote the intermediate level maintenance procedures for the ETVCG (external television camera group), the picture was of the team that was validating the procedures including some from Mission Control's OSO (operation support officer - aka the maintenance personnel for the space station)."
- Performing tests in the Electronic Labs located next to the NBL (neutral buoyancy lab) for the intermediate level maintenance procedures that we were writing for VCL (video camera luminaire). Mr. Peebles would have been proud :
(6th from left is Michael Finke, who is currently on the ISS again, far right is Charles Nick) "I wrote the intermediate level maintenance procedures for a communicates system."
Charles in one of the high def shuttle trainer's flight deck. This was the one that Bill Clinton, Larry the Cable Guy and other famous people always tried to get in for a photo.
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