Design Net Engineering

At DNet we understand that our success and growth relies upon our continued ability to provide our customers and clients with outstanding performance from outstanding people. To meet this need, we recruit the best possible engineers and managers, and organize them into effective service teams as outlined below.

A few of our key people inlclude:

Sandy Murphy

Sandy Murphy is CEO of Design_Net Engineering, a small, woman-owned aerospace engineering company that provides engineering services for government, private, and commercial customers within the high technology sector. Sandy and her husband Gerry, oversee the efforts of approximately 50 employees at offices in Lakewood and Louisville, CO; and Berkeley, CA.

Sandy recently accepted a position in the law firm of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, where she practices in the area of employee benefits planning, compliance, and administration.

From 1999 - 2004, Sandy worked for Mercer Human Resources Consulting. From

1997 - 1999, Sandy was Office Counsel at the Davis Graham & Stubbs law firm, Los Angeles, CA. From 1990 – 1996 she was a Partner at the law firm of Hahn and Hahn, Pasadena, CA. Before that she was an Associate at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, from 1988-1986. From 1977 - 1986 Sandy was a registered nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Sandy is a member of the Colorado and American Bar Associations. She has a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa with High Distinction, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Iowa with Distinction, Sigma Theta Tau.

Sandy is married to Gerry Murphy and has two daughters, Genah and Sonja.

Gerald Murphy

Founder, President, Senior Systems Engineer

•B.S. Math/Physics, Iowa State University
•M.S. Astrophysics, University of Iowa, Thesis: Theory and Observation of RSCVN HR 1099
•M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, Thesis: Design, Calibration and Operation of a Precision Electrical Field Measurement System for the Shuttle Radar

Gerry is a highly experienced Systems/Electrical Engineer familiar with trades, tools, and techniques necessary to build, test, maintain, and calibrate sensitive instrumentation operated in rugged environments where constraints of power, mass, cost and reliability are paramount; More than 20 years experience in building instrumentation and detector systems and their support electronics including many types of in-situ and remote sensing instruments (UV, IR, VIS, imaging, waves, plasmas, energetic particles); Experience in spacecraft subsystems and instrument electronics and software; 4 patents; over 30 publications.

Thomas Adams

Operations Manager, Senior Systems Engineer, LTMPF Project Manager and Acting Supervisor of the Science and Systems Group

•B.S. in Physics with a Minor in Mathematics/Computer Science, Western Washington University
•Graduate studies in Physics and Electronics, University of Oregon

Tom has over 20 years of engineering and management experience in the areas of system engineering and design. He is skilled in the areas of system analysis, system integration, numerical analysis and hardware design/installation. Experienced with diverse computer operation systems (VMS, DOS, WINDOWS, UNIX, Macintosh) and applications (PSpice, MS Office, MS Project, Mathematica, MathCad, Fortran, etc.) Has an understanding of high frequency (S,C, X-Band) transmitter/receiver/transponder systems. He is the author of numerous publications in his fields of expertise.