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Spring, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

• Supporting control system design and analysis for upcoming IM missions.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Architected, developed, and verified first-phase refactor of IM’s in-house simulation environment towards utilizing Object-Oriented Programming for vehicle configuration, data loading, and NASA Trick interfacing during.
• Architected, developed, and verified first-phase refactor of IM’s in-house simulation environment towards utilizing Object-Oriented Programming for vehicle configuration, data loading, and NASA Trick interfacing during.
• Refactored in-house Monte Carlo software suite to allow for greater ease of use during configuration, data loading, and interfacing with NASA Trick Suite (C++, NASA Trick Suite, Python).
• Developed temperature and pressure-related models for NOVA-C Simulation Environment for application in fuel, oxidizer ullage, and RCS gas, fluid and tank models (C++, Python). Show less

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

• Developed navigation-based Covariance Analysis Tool (CAT) in Python for integration with DELTA (Dynamic Environment for Launch Trajectory Analysis) simulation used to support experimental Air Force flight program.
• Developed GPS Error Model in DELTA simulation.
• Modified CAT architecture to adopt “Pythonic” standards and efficiencies, replacing existing Fortran-like code structure.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Developed and analyzed deep reinforcement learning guidance agents for coaxial vehicle in Python (PyTorch, Captum).
• Developed Python low-fidelity M&S environments for reinforcement learning training and analysis processes.
• Developed “time-to-go” prediction model using machine learning toolbox in Python (PyTorch).

Huntsville, Alabama

• Developed ballistic payload trajectory prediction model using machine learning toolbox in Python (Tensorflow).
• Implemented Python prediction model in C++ for deployment into an onboard flight software suite.
• Studied payload prediction model design using a 3-DOF simulated model developed in Python and reported results directly to Section Manager for software application.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Analyzed the mechanical properties of asteroid simulant regolith for data supporting potential aerobrake application.
• Collected empirical data on asteroid simulant regolith for application in a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Funding Proposal in partnership with Deep Space Industries.
• Effectively demonstrated oral communication skills during teleconference meetings with Deep Space Industries engineers, scientists and business executives.

• Collaborated with team members from engineering schools across the US to develop a Preliminary Design Review for a theoretical Martian Water Quality Analyzation Mission.
• Researched Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) methods for small Martian payloads, with the intent of satisfying numerous weight and dimensional constraints placed on the EDL vehicle by NASA mentors.
• Conducted preliminary failure-mode analysis on both the theoretical Martian entry vehicle and payload in order to… Show more
• Conducted preliminary failure-mode analysis on both the theoretical Martian entry vehicle and payload in order to identify critical areas for redundancy to ensure mission success. Show less

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering, 3.85

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Graduated Summa Cum Laude | Member of the Honors Leadership Program | NASA RASC-AL Martian Ice Mining Challenge.