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Detroit, MI, US

Self-Employed as a consultant to founders across industries

El Segundo, California, US

• Secured first FAA launch license issued for launch out of a commercial launch site under FAA 14 CFR-450 regulations
• Worked to establish launch capability at Pacific Spaceport Alaska, Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and at the UK Shetland Space Centre

El Segundo, California, US

• Vehicle integration, site activation, launch & test operations
• Joined company as 14th employee, built launch & test team to over 20 people as company grew to more than 200 in total by end of role
• Built several stage and engine test sites in Mojave, CA & Edwards Air Force Base
• Successfully tested & developed E2 engine from clean-sheet design
• Successfully tested & developed ABL's first flight-like stage from clean-sheet design

Hawthorne, California, US

• Stage responsible engineer for F9 & Falcon Heavy missions F9-31 through F9-76 and FH1-3, operating the vehicle from mission control, ensuring vehicle fluids and structural requirements are met for flight, and briefing.
• Scoped and implemented structural and fluids operational requirements for Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, ensuring proper handling on-pad pre-launch and in-flight
• Project manage various reuse improvement & automation projects, implementing design & operational changes aimed at eliminating rocket maintenance and operations overhead
• Wrote Falcon 9 first-ever rocket maintenance guide to establish automated checkout and operations requirements to enable rapid re-flight
• Built out robust service life tracking tool to track life consuming events on first stage boosters between flights to enable launch teams to maintain vehicles autonomously

Hawthorne, California, US

• Wrote & executed plan to convert recovered F9 first-stage boosters to Falcon HeavySideboosters, leading conversion effort of vehicle at Cape Canaveral launch hangar
• Established inspection and refurbishment processes for F9 first stages as lead mfg. engineeron the first orbital-class first-stage booster to have been reflown in the history of rocketry
• Reduced takt time more than 50% for stage propulsion integration over the course of 7x F9first stage build campaigns by re-ordering work flow, ensuring hardware needs were met,and quickly identifying solutions &.
• Led containment post 2015 flight anomaly, ensuring all at risk hardware was reworked acrossWIP vehicles, managing corrective hardware supply to maintain flow of in-progress stages

Hawthorne, California, US

• Responsible for long-term revenue forecasts, driving company valuation, debt agreements,and external investments – Including $1B round in Jan ’15 from Google & Fidelity
• Forecasted & reviewed all Engineering driven expense including all corporate R&Dprojects such as Falcon Heavy Development, F9 Improvements, & Mars initiatives
• Develops SQL based reporting tools for analysts to track business segment activity

Hawthorne, California, US

 Co-Wrote one volume of four-volume proposal for Air Force contract valued over $150M Built dashboards from SQL queried data to determine part demand status for 1600-Part Merlin D Engine Developed financial spend reports and presented to executive leadership including CFO and VP's, allowing for greater knowledge in strategic decision-making Worked to.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

 Sourced all components of project, including over $500,000 in raw materials, $250,000 in professional labor, and $100,000 in logistics to ensure car is built safely and on time Selected to the team¡¦s 16-person Race Crew out of pool of 100 students, winning team's third consecutive National Championship, and traveling to Australia to take Third Place in.

Detroit, Michigan, US

 Streamlined metering process in DTE’s experimental Advanced Metering Infrastructure, implementing DTE's first attempt at wireless meter reading Built searchable database of factory infrastructure through DTE’s Documentum server, resulting in increased flexibility and efficiency in future factory repairs and builds Efficiently assigned new customers to.

 Taught tennis lessons to children ages 3-15, in both competitive and relaxed settings, focusing on both tennis and teamwork skills Managed the desk and dealt with customer care, scheduling court usage, and preforming general maintenance Oversaw over 10 travel tennis teams of middle school and high school students, scheduling matches, adjusting lineups.

Bba, Finance

Minor, Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering