Provide thermal analysis and design solutions for space vehiclesDevelop representative thermal models for complex space systems using Thermal Desktop

● Develop and modify project plans and schedules● Track project progress, identify and resolve obstacles to minimize schedule disruption● Direct multi-disciplinary internal partners including structural mechanics, solid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, test facilities, Photometrics, and radiography.● Collaborate with component and sub-component product realization teams on electrical and mechanical requirements.● Translate customer needs into development activities accounting for constraints including requirements, safety, budget, and deliverables.● Write and review test plans & assembly procedures, define success criterion and assess performance, evaluate go-no-go scenarios.● Communicate plans, changes, updates, results, and impacts to Air Force customers.● First author multidisciplinary test report.● Perform trade studies on diminishing returns and maximizing investment.● Principal Investigator – Techno-Economic analysis, projecting the adoption of alternative energy vehicles in the light-duty and heavy-duty segments.● Create, negotiate and execute multi-year research plans.● Pitch new analysis ideas and present research at annual merit review.● Manage budgeting, deliverables and customer interactions.● Investigate trade space and present down select options $100M facility retooling, maintenance and upgrade plan.● Create a path-gaming tool capable of detailing threat credibility for an option space with over 1M possible permutations from identified scenarios.● Perform Uncertainty Quantification for large scale thermal models ● Validate combustion simulations against experiment.● Model and simulate vents, leaks and torches for hydrogen and natural gas.

Master and Ph.D. Research developed 2D automated optimization software for use in aerospace applications.Dissertation Title: 2D Inviscid and VIscous Inverse Design Using Continuous Adjoint and Lax-Wendroff Formulation

Modeling for a variety of aerodynamic applications in unsteady flow.Feasibility of Reduced Order Models (ROMs) as a predictive tool in CFD simulation.

Verification and Validation (V&V) for vessel blow-down simulations