Federal research funding
Competitive proposal development
Authored and supported technical proposals resulting in more than $1 million in awarded federal research funding, including Department of Energy-supported work.
Chief Executive Officer
Mo RiGesefal
Energy systems research, technical analytics, and program delivery.
Research, systems, and delivery.
Mo leads MSA's consulting and research support practice. He serves as project manager and research and development lead for a laboratory at a major public research university, where he has led or contributed to more than a dozen research and development projects across technical and program-management roles.
His technical work includes energy-efficiency sensing and telemetry: experimental planning, instrumentation, embedded firmware, data pipelines, analysis, and technical reporting.
He has authored and contributed to competitive funding proposals resulting in more than $1 million in awarded federal research funding, including awards from the U.S. Department of Energy. His research is currently under peer review, and he has received recognition from the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship.
Leadership
His leadership record spans three levels: direct supervision of researchers; coordination across departments, subrecipients, and partner institutions on multi-party projects; and ownership of project budgets and resource allocation across active awards.
Recruitment and talent development
He serves as recruitment lead — running hiring for the laboratory from sourcing through interviewing and onboarding, and leading recruitment for SEAL and ISLA (Indigenous Students from Latin America). That experience bears directly on how MSA operates: a firm that promises principal-level delivery has to be good at identifying and keeping people who can work at that level.
He mentors students and early-career professionals through structured peer-mentorship programs.
The following figures describe Mo’s individual research experience and proposal contributions.
- 12+
- Research and development projects led or supported
- $1M+
- Federal research funding awarded through proposals authored or supported
- Energy systems
- Connected sensing, telemetry, experimental planning, and technical reporting
- Teams & budgets
- Direct supervision, multi-party coordination, and project budget ownership
- Recruitment
- Laboratory hiring lead; recruitment lead for SEAL and ISLA
Role at MSA
Within the firm he owns strategy, business development, client relationships, contract negotiation, and delivery of technical and analytics engagements. He is the point of contact for solicitations, sources-sought notices, RFIs, and teaming inquiries.
Affiliations: Mentor Powers For Success (MPFS); the Mentorship Collective. LinkedIn
Selected experience
Relevant work before MSA
This is individual professional experience, not corporate past performance of MSA. Agency and employer names are used only where appropriate and authorized.
Research program delivery
Technical and program leadership
Led or contributed to more than a dozen research and development projects across technical investigation, project management, sponsor reporting, and team coordination.
Technical domain
Energy-efficiency sensing and telemetry
Research development across connected sensing, experimental planning, embedded firmware, telemetry pipelines, and analysis. The work connects physical measurements with documented methods and reviewable results.
Team and budget leadership
Supervision, coordination, and resource ownership
Direct supervision of researchers, coordination across departments, subrecipients, and partner institutions on multi-party projects, and ownership of project budgets and resource allocation across active federal awards.
Recruitment and talent development
Laboratory and organization hiring
Recruitment lead for the laboratory — sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding researchers — and recruitment lead for SEAL and ISLA (Indigenous Students from Latin America), building pipelines for students underrepresented in technical research.
Recognition and mentorship
Research and professional development
Research under peer review, recognition from the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship, plus structured mentorship of students and early-career professionals through Mentor Powers For Success (MPFS) and the Mentorship Collective.
Work with Mo
Research, analytics, and government engagements.
Thirty minutes, no fee, and a written proposal afterward.