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Cary, Nc

In air flight experience with Hub Mounted Active Vibration Suppression on Helicopters. Conducted Active Vibration Control flight testing with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (SAC) and the US Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) on a Black Hawk (UH-60A). Flight Testing resulted in receiving the 2015 Grover E. Bell award at AHS International.Systems engineering from the ground up, specifically: initial analysis and feasibility, mechanical design, embedded microcontroller and PCB design, embedded software controls and algorithms, laboratory testing and final field/flight testing.Design and modeling of Aerospace and Industrial passive vibration absorption solutions that are elastomeric, hydraulic, and mechanical. Experience modeling multi-energy domain systems with Bond Graphs.Mechanical design of rotating machinery including bearing design, stress and cyclic fatigue, shrink and press fits, part tolerancing, thermal stress, and power transmission design.Sensing experience with accelerometers, strain gauges, thermocouples, tachometers, and RTD temperature circuits: included “cloud” based sensor collection and data processing with iPython scripts.Embedded programming experience on TI,Microchip, and STMicroelectronics processors using Simulink and C. Coding experience with control algorithms and communicating between embedded devices over CANbus (ARINC 825), SCI / RS232, SPI, and I2C.MIMO controls experience and algorithm development minimizing a cost function with a non-square system.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Implementation of PID controllers in industrial pumps and compressor systems. Design of piping systems and pumps used in the Steel industry to supply water.Process design work to optimize Steel production via chemical reduction. Required the development of empirical equilibrium reactor models. Developed a burner model utilizing mixing and kinetics to predict a Partial Oxidation Burner’s performance.Designed C++ programs which performed empirical thermodynamic calculations to predict operation of chemical reduction. Required the use of iterative numerical methods to determine nonlinear solutions to Mass, Energy, and Momentum balances.

Development of empirically based control algorithms for health monitoring commercial and military aircraft: included thermodynamic modeling of baseline engine operation in Matlab to aid in control development.Digital analysis and signal processing in Matlab of Vehicle Integrated Propulsion Research (VIPR) data from the C-17 Military transport.

Masters Of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Gpa: 4.0

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics, Gpa: 4.0, Summa Cum Laude, Joint Valedictorian

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, American Physical Society

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Gpa 4.0, Summa Cum Laude, Joint Valedictorian