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Continuation of internship from June 2021 to June 2022- Poster presentation during LPSC (Lunar and Planetary Science Conference) in March 2023

• Employ voter registration database to verify 6,000 petition signatures and qualify municipal ballot initiatives in Austin, El Paso, Denton, and Edinburg
• Assist and volunteer in voter registration drives and phone banksGround Game Texas is a political organization with the primary goal of putting progressive initiatives on city ballots in Texas, such as marijuana.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Standardized two ETL pipelines to improve migration of vendor data to long-term warehousing (AWS Redshift)
• Documented and developed methods to display various report generation statuses/errors on Datadog UI
• Profiled database migration architecture (AWS DMS) and wrote Excel macros to improve load balancing

Austin, Texas, United States

• Utilized Agile Scrum principles to lead 6-member team and delegate individual tasks
• Led testing campaign of in-rocket fluid components to successful System Requirements Review (SRR) and Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
• Wrote professional design reviews, P&IDs, and test procedures for 15 flight components
• Debugged water flow test stand’s hardware and electronic issues, served as test operator during tests of cooling channel pieces
• Designed curriculum and taught lab-wide weekly Python tutorialsTREL is a student-run laboratory at UT aiming to become the first collegiate rocketry team to launch a liquid bipropellant rocket to the Karman Line, or.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Developed an interactive, GUI-based Python application to visualize test-generated data from LabVIEW, significantly decreased time required for data analysis
• Build and test first iteration of rocket engine to gather data and improve designs
• Provide inter-team support for GUI-related questions

• Developed MATLAB-based simulations to model Europa’s surface evolution for 2024 NASA mission (Europa Clipper)
• Wrote unit and integration tests to validate new code and demonstrate robust code coverage
• Optimized Monte Carlo algorithms through caching and parallel processing, reduced runtime by 37%
• Reduced memory usage of photon-simulating Monte Carlo architecture by over 70%
• Spearheaded redesign of lab component through development of collision detection algorithm and visualizationIn 2024, NASA will launch a satellite to study Europa, a moon of Jupiter. The Galileo mission, orbiting.

Austin, Texas, United States

• The Sanger Learning Center is an on-campus facility that provides free academic support (tutoring, public speaking, workshops, etc.) to all UT students.
• Supported over 30 students per semester with Calculus, Physics, Java, Python, and Statistics
• Tailored and refined lesson approaches to better engage with diverse learning styles of students
• Fostered independent learning through teaching of strategic and dynamic study strategies

Austin, Texas, United States

• Constructed fiberglass body tubes and rocket fins utilizing engineering laboratory equipment
• Collaborated with 20-person team to write NASA-specified professional design reviews
• Modeled and simulated 2:3 subscale rocket to identify flight characteristics

Cupertino, California, United States

• Wired three competitive robots designed to drive, climb, and pick up and release itemssuch as gears and crates over three respective six-week periods
• Led rookie trainings on crimping and soldering with a specific emphasis on motors and motor controllers
• Assisted leadership team with design and configuration of robots
• Scouted 5 - 10 other teams before and during competitions, acquired statistics to help coordinate team strategy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Honors, Texas Rocket Engineering Lab, Longhorn Rocketry Association, Longhorn Band, Sanger Learning.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Drum Captain of the Monta Vista Marching Band, Monta Vista Winter Percussion, Study Buddy Society