Daniel Bradford Email & Phone Number

Hermosa Beach, Ca, Us

Torrance, California, Us

- RE for parachute deployment and release mechanisms on Inversion's Ray reentry vehicle - Owned all aspects of parachute support hardware development from conceptual design and development testing through qualification, ATP, and flight integration- Orchestrated and conducted airdrop test operations in support of Ray's parachute system qualification and development testing of Inversion's guided parachute system- Responsible for program management and authoring deliverables for a $1.7M Phase II SBIR awarded under the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime program for investigation of reusable capsules for orbital debris return

Torrance, California, Us

- Founding member of Inversion's engineering team prior to company's incorporation in Jan 2021- Responsible for conducting vehicle architecture trade studies, developing CFD and orbital mechanics analysis tools, and designing the pathfinder primary structures and parachute support hardware for Inversion's Ray reentry vehicle

- Developed simulation tools for predicting the mechanical properties of compacted elastogranular columns using Sandia's Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator code (LAMMPS)- Modified and validated models using experimental data collected prior to in-person restrictions

Socorro, Nm, Us

- National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) participant- Designed and conducted experiments to quantify strain energy storage soft robotic vertebrae structures and characterize additively manufactured vibration isolation devices- Research conducted in collaboration with groups at Sandia National Labs and US Army Research Lab

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering - 4.0

High School Diploma - Salutatorian - 4.532 Gpa