My role as a Systems Engineer Intern is ensuring project deliverables are designed and built to meet the expected performance and functional requirements of customers. This includes:• Managing and refining system requirements, properly adjusting when the customer needs• Creating thorough system documentation to ensure compatibility between subsystems• Performing tests and simulations to create realistic requirements and verify system performance

As a Systems Engineer on the USU Get Away Special Student Satellite Team, I am responsible for interfacing with the Team Coordinator and the various subteams to ensure the GASRATS subsystems are fully compatible. My time is also spent mentoring team members, ensuring I pass on the skills and knowledge I've gained in my past leadership positions.

As Team Coordinator, I led both technical and program sides of the GAS Team and the initial development of the GASRATS mission. This included interfacing with project shareholders, improving onboarding efforts, hosting design reviews, writing grants, and ensuring system compatibility, among many more responsibilities.During my time as Team Coordinator, I led the GASRATS project to SRR and secured a NASA CSLI launch and over $50k in funding. Aside from the project accomplishments, I learned how to (and not to) be a leader, guiding over 30 undergraduate students in doing something we all find to be pretty awesome.

During the summers of 2021-2023, I was a recipient of the NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowship and USU GAS Team Summer Fellowship. In 2021, my work was focused on finishing the AeroBoom payload and the GASPACS CubeSat, including preparing for and delivering GASPACS to NASA in September 2021.In 2022 and 2023, I led concept development and early designing for the GASRATS CubeSat.

As Mechanical Team Lead, I was in charge of designing, building, and verifying the Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite (GASPACS) AeroBoom Payload and other physical systems. The AeroBoom is a meter-long inflatable boom that is used as a passive attitude controlling mechanism. Two-axis stabilization is achieved due to aerodynamic drag from the AeroBoom, causing the satellite to stabilize along its velocity vector.Throughout my time as Mechanical Team Lead, I led critical design changes to the AeroBoom Payload, focusing on increasing its reliability and success rate. Quickly iterating and improving building and testing methods led to higher confidence in build quality and larger chances of a successful AeroBoom deployment.GASPACS was deployed from the International Space Station on January 26, 2022. The AeroBoom was successfully deployed shortly after. An image of the deployed AeroBoom was transmitted to the GAS Team ground station later that day, completing the main mission objective of GASPACS. GASPACS reentered 117 days later, marking the end of an enormously successful mission. GASPACS was the first entirely undergraduate CubeSat in the world and also featured the first Raspberry Pi to be used as a main flight computer.

ColdSlayer is creating a novel heated sock that uses your own body heat to warm your toes. As an R&D Engineer, I work on iteratively designing and testing our socks to ensure they meet our customers' high expectations of an effective and durable product. This includes building and programming innovative manufacturing processes and custom test systems that use Raspberry Pis, PLCs, HMIs, Python, and more.