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Long Beach, California, US

• Perform high level trade studies to drive component placement and selection on Haven-1
• Lead radiator design and development on Haven-1

Long Beach, CA, US

• Responsible for designing TPS from nose to tail on LauncherOne rocket using Thermal Desktop (65+ models)
• Developed end-to-end aerothermal database from CAD cleanup to aeroheating profiles encompassing flight envelope
• Drive innovation in current workflows and processes to decrease production time by 10s of hours per rocket
• Perform aerothermal analysis of NewtonThree rocket engine TPS
• Interface with manufacturing teams to support TPS production and integration on LauncherOne vehicle
• Provide real-time engineering support during critical operations (such as launch and wet-dress rehearsal)

• Lead overall CAD mechanical and thermal design in SolidWorks
• Interface between different engineering subteams
• Manage risks and requirements to ensure overall mission success
• Responsible for modeling and simulation of experiment which is designed to study radiative coating efficiency on the lunar surface
• Design material coatings and sensor layout in order to optimize ∆T across the sensing face using SolidWorks Simulation and optimization tools
• Reduced weight by 35% by use of light-weighting techniques during the design phase

• Responsible for determining relevant flow physics responsible for transitional heating and drag increases
• Harness Pointwise gridding software to generate 2D and 3D hexahedral watertight meshes for use in our CFD solvers
• Automate meshing process using TCL-based script in Pointwise to decrease meshing time from days to minutes
• Generate high resolution (>100 million cells), high resolution laminar basic states using DPLR, US3D, and OVERFLOW CFD codes on complex hypersonic geometries
• Visualize and analyze solutions using Tecplot 360 and Matlab
• Work with experimentalists to interpret wind-tunnel and flight results using CFD

College Station, Texas, US

• Responsible for devising AggieSat6 satellite software architecture to maximize reliability in space
• Lead and mentored younger team members on the topic of in-space design
• Interfaced with guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) subteam to communicate pointing requirements across other subteams
• Managed and worked to understand risks from GNC subsystem to determine overall impact on AggieSat6
• Formulated requirements verification matrix to ensure that AggieSat6 meets all mission objectives

Hawthorne, California, US

• Worked as a vehicle analysis intern with the aerothermal group at SpaceX
• Expanded flow solver capability in order to decrease time to solution
• Performed aerothermal computations on the Crew Dragon capsule at hypersonic reentry conditions in order to investigate heating on the vehicle
• Developed a tutorial that served to demonstrate how automation in the meshing process prior to CFD can be used to save time during an analysis
• Supported hypersonic aerothermal flow analysis on the Starship vehicle by performing CFD simulations.

• Responsible for CFD analysis of rocket and managed rocket assembly in Solidworks with 100+ individual parts
• Designed 3D printed nose cone and structural bulkhead to withstand 500 lbs. of force from parachute
• Hand-fabricated 24 fiberglass composite body tubes, engine casings/liners, and fins using wet composite layups techniques
• Hand-cast solid rocket fuel grain and sliced up into individual segments prior to integration into motor

College Station, Texas, US

• Helped assemble solar panels onto and assisted with vibrational testing of the satellite
• Developed flight software that interfaces with the on-board GPS unit and the on-board magnetic field sensor in C++
• Worked with these same areas in our simulation of the satellite in Simulink

College Station, Texas, US

• Collaborated on development of a C++ library to control the on-board camera on our spacecraft.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering