Michael Brenner is a senior systems engineer with nearly 30 years of aerospace experience at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, where he supports space imaging systems. Caltech CTME lists his roles, including systems engineering and requirements development lead for the Thirty Meter Telescope, project systems engineer for an advanced mirror development project, and systems engineering roles on the Giant Magellan Telescope, ALMA and Cassini's VIMS instrument.
His experience spans systems engineering, electronics and optical system design, integration and test, flight software and project management. He is a senior instructor at Caltech CTME, teaching Model-Based Systems Engineering, systems engineering and project management, and holds a master's degree in electronics digital design and computer architecture from California State University Northridge.