Josh A. Cassada, Ph.D

Josh Cassada, PhD. from nasa.gov

His current job is being the Chief Technology Officer at Quantum Opus, LLC.

 "Quantum Opus is a small, privately held Limited Liability Company (LLC) based in Albion, Michigan that is committed to the goal of providing novel products and services to enable researchers to make single-photon measurements with unmatched sensitivity, speed, and precision."  More about it HERE

His past jobs have been:

• Chief of Flight Operations/P-8A Acceptance Pilot at DCMA Boeing Seattle
• Instructor Pilot at U.S. Naval Test Pilot School
• Test Pilot at Air Test and Evaluation Squadron TWO ZERO

• P-3C Patrol Plane Commander/Mission Commander/Instructor Pilot at Patrol Squadron EIGHT
• Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Fellow at the Collider Detector Facility (CDF) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Graduate Teaching Assistant in Undergraduate Physics at University of Rochester

• Space Physics Research Intern at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center 

 You can check out his Linkedin profile HERE

From what I can see is that Dr. Cassada is a research physicist that was a test pilot for the Navy and Boeing.  No wonder he stood out to the Astronaut selection board.

I will continue to publish short bios of each of the ASCANs in the class for the information of them that I can find.