Alex Elliot is a Software Subject Matter Expert in the Office of Test Data and Information Management within the Stennis Space Center (SSC) Engineering and Test Directorate.  During his more than 25-year career at the SSC Rocket Engine Test Complex, Alex has worked on numerous engine ground test programs including the Space Shuttle Main Engine, X-33, J2-X, X-34/Fastrac, RS-68a, and RS-25.  He served as a lead software engineer on the Artemis Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage Green Run test, where he developed software to interface and integrate the SSC Data Acquisition System with the SLS Stage Controller, the SSC Facility Controls System, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Hazardous Gas Detection System, and offsite systems at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC).  Alex also supported the Artemis Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) test project as the SSC Lead Electrical Design Engineer, where he led a team of electrical engineers responsible for the design and implementation of all critical electrical and software systems to ready the B-2 Test Stand to accept and test the EUS.  Currently he is a software engineer on the NASA Data Acquisition System (NDAS) team developing modular software with a common interface for use on multiple DAS hardware platforms at SSC, WSTF and MSFC.  As a longtime member of NASA’s Software Working Group and a charter member of the new Agile Community of Practice, Alex represents SSC in Agency software process sharing and policy improvements.

Alex received a Bachelor of Science from Tulane University in New Orleans majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a minor in Chemistry.  He also holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi where he published a thesis in the discipline of bioinformatics.