MILA Solutions, LLC

MILA Solutions is available to help with special projects that take advantage of our writing, creative and management skills. Some examples are presented here, with more examples coming soon.

Keep One Here Campaign
A ground breaking ceremony was held in January 2012 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the exhibit complex that will showcase the retired Space Shuttle Atlantis. The process by which Delaware North Parks Services began working with the community to ensure one of the retired orbiters would stay in Florida began about four years earlier. It was in mid-2007 that Delaware North contracted with MILA Solutions to organize the initial effort, which resulted in the Keep One Here campaign. This resulted in a written proposal and a meeting of community leaders, from which additional efforts grew and led to NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden announcing that Atlantis would remain at KSC. The goal was achieved thanks to the hard work of many dedicated parties.

Artist view of Atlantis on display at KSCVC.

Faith Fellowship Church
My wife and I attend Faith Fellowship Church in Melbourne, Fla. Their children's program director is Kris Pakulak and it's my sincere pleasure to be able to help her reach out to young kids with a message that God loves them. When Kris needs some creative help, perhaps with some writing or graphics, I'm happy to help where I can. Now I will be the first to admit I'm a self-taught amateur when it comes to graphics and video production, still I think I do OK. I offer these examples of my volunteer work for my church to showcase some of my work.

VBS 2013

VBS 2012

Assembled using clip art provided by the publisher of the Vacation Bible School material we used in 2012, above are a pair of signs used as PowerPoint slides to promote the event, while the green and white design at right was used as the front of the t-shirts that each child received.

With the help of a wonderful ninth-grader, Cicely Conway, who shot most of the images, we produced a daily newsletter for our VBS called the Compass. Links to each of the newsletters are offered here.

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

Finally, here is a video just shy of four minutes that I produced that shows highlights of our VBS program in 2012. Pictures used were taken by Cicely Conway, Teresa McIntyre and myself.

NASA Contributions to Aeronautics
In 2010, NASA published a two-volume book that reviewed the agency's contributions to aeronautical research during its first 50 years of existence. The work was managed and edited by the respected author and historian, Richard Hallion, who contracted with MILA Solutions to write three of the book's chapters, covering the topics of jet engine propulsion, aircraft icing and air traffic management. Links to PDF files of the individual chapters are offered here, while e-book versions of the entire book set, along with other interesting titles, are available at no charge from this NASA web page.

Cover of NASA Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 1.

Cover of NASA Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2.