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Exploration Upper Stage Launch IPT• Collaborated with multiple sub-disciplines to develop comprehensive operational requirements. • Successfully managed the requirement burndown schedule, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of key milestones. • Established a new JIRA project from scratch for the Launch IPT, enhancing workflow management, facilitating team communication, and optimizing priority discussions.

• Managed a diverse team of 12 propulsion Flight Test Engineers (FTEs), overseeing their hiring, initial flight test training, career development, and recognition. • Reviewed and approved team members’ work for quality and efficiency. • Enacted several digital transformation initiatives to improve safe and efficient test execution. • Managed the test schedule, ensuring tests were completed on time and within budget. • Coordinated with design engineering, sub-contractors, and program leadership to address technical challenges and created test plans for recommended solutions.

• Conducted test planning, test readiness, and safety of flight activities to support test operations. • Led a diverse team of engineers through pre-flight briefs, test conduct, and debrief of test events. • Improved standard flight test preparation processes and tools to enhance safety and communication of critical information • Coordinated with multiple critical parties to ensure all test activities and required planning were completed to execute each test event.

• Managed multiple supplier contracts, ensuring compliance with required dates for testing, reports, and large-scale milestones, all while staying within budget. • Acted as a deputy Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead for the Thruster’s IPT of the Hybrid Airship Program, including tasking design and requirements engineers, tracking earned value management, and participating in control account management meetings. • Wrote statements of work and equipment requirements documents for significant thruster components and coordinated with suppliers throughout the request for proposal (RFP) process to meet program schedule goals. • Led thruster analysis for the Hybrid Airship Program, performing design and analysis on propeller and engine performance, as well as force and moment analysis on the entire thruster. • Evaluated propulsion data set output to ensure accuracy of physics and surrogate models, using the data to simulate missions based on engine thrust and fuel flow performance.

• Ran propulsion models to generate installed performance of jet engines in a next-generation fighter-type aircraft • Evaluated propulsion data set output to ensure accuracy of jet engine physics and surrogate models; used the data to simulate fighter aircraft missions based on engine thrust and fuel flow performance; • Created and edited software toolset needed to run analysis of inlets, nozzles, and the integrated propulsion system • Assisted with real-time data reduction during tests of propulsion systems (inlets, nozzles) to insure the quality of test results; Completed post-test data processing and analysis for hardware tests • Ran optimizations on both engine and air vehicle models to evaluate the trade-offs between different, customer-set, performance goals • Continually worked to advance optimization and analysis process to improve data quality and efficiency while maximizing air vehicle performance; implemented success assured methods to strive for overall design process improvement and optimization• Organized data and results for presentations to the customer; strove to present the technical data so that it could be effortlessly comprehended by the customer

• Worked as a part of the mechanical systems team on the 787 as a part of the Enterprise Engineering Support Group• Investigated corrective action request documents to determine if further engineering action was necessary, and create a plan for implementing corrections• Created change packages from problem reports and presented each of the changes to be approved by the Engineering Review Board and the Change Commitment Board• Obtained release actions for the approved changes and worked to update the CAD models according to the change plan, using Enovia and Catia

• Worked as a part of the mechanical team on the International X-ray Observatory• Performed experiments testing the different methods for permanently attaching the x-ray mirrors with epoxy to the mirror frames in order to determine the best possible method that instilled the least amount of stress on and into the mirrors• Wrote Labview programs to assist running mirror-epoxying experiments that used data collected from thermocouples, laser displacement sensors, micro-Newton force gauges, and nanometer actuators