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A little bit of everything. With a whole lot of random stuff thrown in here and there. 80ish % technical work so far. Hoping to keep it that way for the time being.

Part of a team that built a battery powered compact high power microwave system capable of 500 Hz repetition rate, tunable frequencies over a range from 1.5 GHz to 6 GHz, >100 kV/m on target at 2 m. My primary responsibilities were Marx Generator design and vircator optimization and design.Marx design- PFN Marx, capable of 500 Hz operation for a duration of 2 s. Gas switches use dry filtered air from air compressor at 80 SCFM flow rate. PFN stages interchangable for different pulse length, and impedance . Robust system >300,000 shots with no maintenance required.Vircator design- Frequency Tunable via adjustible Cavity Reflector and A-K Gap. Burst mode duration >2 s at 500 Hz PRF achieved via pyrolytic graphite anode (anode cooling via. black body radiation) Rogowski profiled cathode eliminated edge emission. Developed a theoretical model to estimate electron beam heating of the anode from previous work by others on electron beam interaction with solid targets. Experimental model for vircator oscillation frequency as a function of measured voltage and current waveforms. Trigger Generator- Solid state driven transformer with magnetic pulse compression. Modular design allows driving up to 6 transformers in parallel, and stacking the outputs in series to achieve high voltages.Rapid Capacitor Charger- Inverter driving step up transformer with rectified output. 100kVA output power with current mode control and voltage feedback.Battery Pack- 380V, 8 Ahr Lithium Polymer battery stack. Integrated heat sinks, cooling fans, relays to break the cells into 4 smaller series connected sections for safety during servicing. Temperature monitoring of each cell with dissipative balancing during charging.

Shock wave induced electrical breakdown in polymeric solids. 2006-2008Flux compression generator glide plane crowbar design via hydrodynamic simulation. 2009Construction and testing of a low impedance, 5ohm, 500kV 2.75kJ Marx generator. 2009-2010Hydrodynamic simulations of helical magnetic flux compression generator's armature - stator interaction, and analytical analysis on the effect of background gas on armature expansion. 2010Chemical etching process for HDPE which enables bonding of HDPE with epoxy. 2010Cathode optimization for large cross section space charge limited cold cathode diodes, for use in a virtual cathode oscillator. June of 2010-2012.

Pyramid Executive Club was a small business that offered fitness and spa services to a professional clientele. While employed there I learned all aspects of the business, and ended up running the business from 2002 to 2006. My responsibilities included membership sales, fitness training, equipment maintenance and repair, information technology, accounting, human resources and general operations manager.

Mindless physical labor