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Denver, CO, US

Littleton, Colorado, United States

ASI by Rocket Lab

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Virginia Tech 3DI Lab: https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/Advisor: Dr. Doug BowmanM.S. ThesisAccepted paper in ACM SUI '24

Hawthorne, California, United States

Starship Flight Software:- On a team of 3 software engineers working on bring-up software for a new electronics board product for Starship, working closely and collaborating with Git.- Wrote C++ software for a microcontroller, referencing data sheets and PCB schematics.- Went to meetings for the new product to help understand and provide insight for.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗦𝗮𝘁-𝗫 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺:
• Selective program for college students to design and fly a scientific payload onboard a NASA sounding rocket each summer𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗦𝗮𝘁-𝗫 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺:
• Team of ~15 engineering students on either a mechanical or electrical subteam working to design, implement, and test an entire space payload𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲:
• Developing real-time embedded software for a space payload being launched to space
• Writing the main TI MSP432 flight controller software loop (C++) for data collection and storage from an IMU, barometer, accelerometer, and micro SD card reader
• Managing a team of subteam of engineers using GitLab Kanban development methodologiesThe presentation below shows how this experience is applicable to software engineering internships, especially those for space and.

• 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁:
• Worked with telescope electronics, specifically thermal electronics focused on controlling the instrument's heaters and temperature sensors𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀:
• Developed multiple GUI applications used to test and view flight hardware electronics designs' telemetry and commands
• Enhanced NASA JPL Python library to streamline GUI development
• Developed software based on requirements written by NASA JPL electrical engineering CogEs
• Learned relevant parts of the thermal electronics to develop software based on hardware requirements

Remote Work

• 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬:
• Worked on NASA JPL's newest Mars rover during the summer it was launched - Perseverance, which hosts a multitude of beautifully engineered systems such as Terrain Relative Navigation, the Adaptive Caching Assembly and.
• Worked on a set of Python Linux command line tools used to view downlinked stored data from the rover in an organized and quick manner
• Developed automated Jupyter Notebook test scripts in Python using rover APIs and the Mars rover Linux testbed to send commands and validate received messages
• Aided research and development of Mars 2020 operations tools to view data during the rover's main mission on the surface of Mars𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀:
• Large company dynamics, self-sufficiency, remote working, teamwork, joint development of code bases

Blacksburg, VA

• 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
• Virginia Tech planned to compete in SpaceX and Elon Musk's 2020 Hyperloop Design Competition and designed a Hyperloop pod𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽 @ 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺:
• Team of ~100 multidisciplinary students working on various subteams, including electronics, brakes, aeroshell, propulsion, and business𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴:
• Selected the low power electronic components onboard the Hyperloop pod, including the microcontrollers, sensors, motor controllers, and batteries, based on datasheets and requirements
• Helped design the low power circuit diagram and software flowLink below shows Virginia Tech's involvement in the Hyperloop competition:

Ashburn, Virginia

• 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
• Northern Virginia afterschool program that teaches basic engineering and science skills to students in grades K-12𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲:
• Lead after school and summer classes to write curriculum and teach LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics and Java/Python programming
• During the fall/winter, I coached 4 Mindframe Education FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotics teams with one team advancing to the Virginia State FLL tournament, and I coached 2 FIRST LEGO League Jr. teams in the spring

Herndon, Virginia

• 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁:
• Northern Virginia web development company that creates robust websites for various clients 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁:
• Worked with a team of 3 interns to plan and create a website for the local government of Herndon for internal company clients using git to collaborate on the website code base𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁:
• Website focused on finding tax-cheating businesses around Herndon, VA, as well as maintaining a database of legal businesses and potential tax-cheating businesses𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀:
• Ruby on Rails web development framework (Model-View-Controller based architecture)
• Front-end software using Ruby, HTML5, CSS (with Bootstrap), and Javascript

Langley, Virginia

• 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
• Through the high school Virginia Summer Residential Governor's School for NASA Engineering program, I was 1 of 12 high school students selected in Virginia out of approximately 400 applicants (thus about 3% of.
• Worked in NASA's Electronic Systems Branch with a team of 3 other interns on a project to design a mechanism capable of mounting a micro-Raman spectrometer onto an autonomous ground vehicle and integrating the sensor.
• Utilized Autodesk Inventor to model the rover-sensor mechanical and electrical system
• Robot Operating System (ROS) through Linux 16.04 LTS to interface with the rover's built-in motors and sensors to allow for teleoperation of the rover through a Jetson TX2 on-board computer and joystickLinks below show.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

M.S. Thesis for Augmented Reality research as part of the 3DI Lab at Virginia Tech. Using Augmented Reality + Machine Learning (AR+ML)

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ambassadors President Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity Swim Club at.

Online Aerospace College Courses

Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars (2017-18) Virginia Earth System Science Scholars (2018-19) Both were taken through.

Education record

GPA: 3.95 (unweighted on a 4.0 scale) and 4.54 (weighted) Class Rank: 12/343