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Colorado, United States

-Designed and modeled flight hardware with consideration to both mechanical and RF performance while maintaining customer’s standards and expectations -Performed modal, thermal, and random vibration analysis in FEMAP to ensure designs would comply with customer requirements and the product would survive the life cycle of the mission -Designed GSE to ensure the safe assembly and transport of flight equipment with consideration to foreign object debris (FOD), potential impact, and necessary cleanliness levels -Designed test equipment to support the thermal, vibration, and RF pattern testing of flight hardware -Aided in vibration testing to ensure product met or exceeded expectations from analysis and would survive the lifecycle of additional testing by the customer and the following mission -Performed as acting Project Engineer for a cumulative 5 weeks for a $23 million project -Created system block diagrams to express the flow of requirements for Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability

San Antonio, Texas, United States

-Supported the delivery of NASA contracted instruments by designing and assembling GSE following NASA-STD-8739.2, 3, 4, 7-Performed tests and analyzed data to verify performance of components was within specifications-Automated data collection to support internal research and development projects-Maintained ISO 6 cleanrooms to provide foreign object debris (FOD) free assembly and test spaces

San Antonio, Texas, United States

-Worked as a team of 5 to design and build excavating drum to satisfy client specifications-Specified electromechanical components to achieve necessary articulation of deliverable-Drafted using geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) to ensure proper assembly and interaction of all components-Led electromechanical integration and software design -Tracked team progress, timesheets, and costs to ensure project stayed on-budget and on-schedule -Created test parameters to ensure all components of the design functioned to specification in anticipated conditions

Boulder, Colorado, United States

-Collected CERES data from the S-NPP satellite to understand the correlation of radiance in the Earth Radiation Budget with the goal of supporting current estimates in an effort to reduce overall uncertainty in measurements -Worked with doctoral candidates and research advisor to guide research and qualify results -Coded script in python to automatically download and parse 1 TB of data from the NASA CERES website -Presented research during a poster conference to communicate the significance of results and methodology