August 2015 - January 2018: GBAS AnalystThe GAST-D Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) project consists of validating integrity and continuity requirements for satellite fault monitors in GPS receivers through the FAA in order to augment the precision landing system (PLS) with the goal of aircraft autopilot guidance to the ground and through rollout in all weather and space weather scenarios. - Progressed from Systems Engineer II to Systems Engineer III - Designed, validated requirements for, documented, and underwent critical reviews from FAA Key Technical Advisors (KTAs) for two satelllite fault monitors - Achieved approval for the excessive acceleration monitor (EAM), the first satellite fault monitor to be FAA approved in the GAST-D GBAS program - Addressed one of the largest obstacles for GAST-D GBAS in CONUS; nearly achieved approval for a novel code-carrier divergence (CCD) fault monitor by program wrap-up - Performed data analyses and fault simulations in Matlab, Fortran, and C/C++ to develop viable fault monitor designs - Presented many concepts for integrity and continuity performance on various monitor designs under the scrutiny of FAA KTAs - Received awards for hard work and presentation performanceJanuary 2018 - Present: Advanced Technology EngineerPerformed feasibility investigations for two separate augmentations of the Honeywell Ring-Laser Gyro Hybrid program refresh. - Addressed the pitot tube pressure sensor failure issue that caused the Air France 447 crash (and other failures); parameterized the statistical temporal behavior of the true airspeed (TAS) error growth in the event of instrument failure via the implementation of a synthetic true airspeed estimate - Analyzed the performance capability of various turbulence detection designs using Honeywell's inertial navigation devices and the air data computer

Enhanced kinetic particle tracing model from Master's thesis:- Began PhD dissertation work summer 2015- Gyrotropic initialization and simulation region- Moment analysis- Boundary injections- Guiding center trace- Velocity impulse heating method- Autocorrelation function analysis of BBELF wave field for phase coherency- Collisions- Upper and lower boundary model coupling

Continued the development of my particle tracing model with the goal of publishing a research paper quantitaively demonstrating the effects of transverse energization of terrestrial O+ by ion-cycolotron resonance with BBELF waves in the topside, high latitude ionosphere.

As a SWRC/CCMC space weather forecaster, I monitored space weather events, forecasted their potential effects upon spacecraft, then formulated and issued official space weather alerts.