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Daytona Beach, Florida, United States

Greater Boston Area

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Designed preliminary communications architecture for a manned lunar surface access vehicle to maintain constant communication with the TDRSS, and the Deep Space Gateway for 80% of its orbital period • Employed analytical and numerical solutions to establish appropriate link budgets supplemented by the STK Communications Module

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Promote research to undergraduate students across all ERAU colleges through presentations and discussions• Organize and operate Office of Undergraduate Research related events such as Preview Day, Family Weekend, Open House, and Orientation.

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Advise a variety of students in academic scheduling and planning to maintain a clear and concise plan of action for collegiate success• Promote the Aerospace Engineering department through the organization and operation of program related and STEM outreach events

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Generate probability density functions for multivariate statistical analysis of suborbital flight vehicles in temporal and spatial domains for space vehicle and aircraft trajectory planning • Study correlation between flight control vector manipulations and input disturbances on the flight trajectory for guided suborbital platforms to construct a high – fidelity trajectory propagator for future flight analysis• Explore functionality of 4D Trajectory Based Operations for collision detection and avoidance to develop novel methods of integrating commercial space flights into the National Airspace System

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Managing the expansion of the Honors Student Association Research Division – drafting contracts, regulations, and procedures • Mentoring potential research projects to formulate a research question and develop a project proposal • Manage the four research projects that operated within Honors Student Association to ensure their goals are completed and to provide opportunities for members to gain experience writing technical documents and technical presentations

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Employing pretrained Faster R-CNN deep learning algorithm to perform image segmentation and classification of satellite components in low definition images• Researching novel techniques of vision-only attitude determination of target spacecraft on the 2D vision plane for pointing error detection

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Derived and modeled quaternion based 3 DoF equations of motion for spacecraft within a Simulink environment• Used previously described plant model to construct PID, state-space, and quaternion control algorithms• Currently employing and tuning control algorithms through hardware-in-the-loop testing on an Arduino Uno controlled spacecraft prototype

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace Engineering - Dynamics & Control

Bachelor’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.55 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Honors Student Association, Office of Undergraduate Research, Suborbital Space Flight Simulations Laboratory.

High School

Activities and Societies: Science and Engineering Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Quiz Bowl, Varsity Baseball, Stock Market Club