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Sunnyvale, CA, US

Santa Clara, California, United States

• Summer 2022 Intern, continued part-time/remote through Winter 2023 on the Mechanical Engineering team at Astro Digital.
• Designed and operated mechanical test equipment to safely find the center of gravity of a fully fueled and integrated 200kg spacecraft to within +/- 2mm.
• Performed spacecraft qualification tests at SpaceX Payload Processing Facility prior to rideshare launch on the Falcon 9 Starlink-59 launch.
• Integrated spacecraft flight systems, components, and harnesses in a clean room environment.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Chief Engineer on a technology demonstration CubeSat mission in collaboration with the Plasma and Space Propulsion Laboratory at UCLA. Responsibilities include system level design of the project, supporting technical communication between subteams, and communicating with the team developing the electric propulsion payload.

Los Angeles, California, United States

President of UCLA Bruin Spacecraft Group, a student organization with 40-50 members and 3 technical projects. Responsibilities include directing an executive team to secure funding, maintain industry relations, and grow the organization through recruitment and marketing.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lead Structures and Mechanisms Engineer on a technology demonstration CubeSat mission in collaboration with the Plasma and Space Propulsion Laboratory at UCLA. Responsibilities include writing subsystem requirements and budgets, approving CAD designs, collaborating with other subsystem leads and project management, and managing the Structures and.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lead Technician at UCLA Innovation Lab featuring 24 Prusa 3D printers, 8 Raise3D Pro V2 3D printers, two 60W laser cutters, a vinyl cutter, PCB testing and assembly equipment, and a small machine shop. Responsibilities include building and repairing 3D printers, maintaining machine shop equipment and giving training sessions, leading tours for potential.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Summer/Fall 2021 Intern on the Mechanical Engineering team at Space Tango.
• Developed a fluid pumping and routing system for microfluidic drug delivery systems, resulting in a 20% increase in useable payload volume while keeping the system free of air bubbles.
• Designed a new payload facility, expanding launch provider capabilities to include Blue Origin suborbital flights.
• Assembled hardware for SpaceX payloads in a Class 2 Biosafety Cabinet to prevent microbiological contamination.

El Segundo, California, United States

• Summer 2020 intern on the Structures and Mechanisms team at Millennium Space Systems.
• Developed spacecraft ground support equipment to aid in assembly of deployable solar array mechanisms.
• Designed a harness system for safely lifting a 1000kg space vehicle and wrote proof load test procedures.
• Used GD&T techniques to support the release of 15 engineering drawings.
• Wrote test procedures to verify spacecraft environmental requirements.

Wrote curriculum for an official UCLA Engineering course and taught to a class of 30 undergraduate students through the UCLA Engineering 96A program. The objective of the class was to give students hands on project experience from conceptualization to testing and deployment. Students spent 4 weeks designing a model remote sensing spacecraft, equipped with.