Aerospace Engineer, Flight Structures
Wallops Island, Virginia, United States
- Mechanical engineer for multiple sub-orbital platforms including: balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, and smallsats/cubesats. Focus in design of structures, and have experience with analysis, manufacturing, assembly.
- Designed a coarse azimuth pointing system specifically for 5.5K lb suspended scientific balloon payloads. Design is an approved U.S. Patent.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary engineers to create and evaluate feasibility of smallsat/cubesat mission proposals through the WFF Mission Planning Lab (MPL) & GSFC Mission Design Lab (MDL).
- Supported multiple evolve the workforce groups throughout Goddard and Wallops. Through the Engineering Technology Directorate (ETD) Transformation Strategy Team for Workforce, I led a sub-team to create an Onboarding.