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Long Beach, CA, US

AI powered aerospace hardware development.

Long Beach, CA, US

Manage vehicle mechanisms and unpressurized structures team for Terran R.

Long Beach, CA, US

Manager of upper stage structures and mechanisms. Responsible for interstage, gridfin, stage 2 and payloads.

Long Beach, CA, US

Design criteria engineer responsible for reusability, pressurized structures, and aft end.

Gauting, Bavaria, DE

Manage team to develop battery module thermal runaway safety concepts. Develop and release thermal runaway propagation barrier and venting design solutions in NX 12 and Teamcenter. Source technologies from suppliers. Coordinate test execution with battery abuse test labs and production. Implement building-block test campaign and release test plans for.

Gauting, Bavaria, DE

Manage team to design in NX 10, release in Teamcenter, and deliver flight hardware for the battery module and energy management system. Develop test and analysis verification strategy, release test plans, and deliver completed compliance matrix. Resolve maintenance issues.-Delivered ahead of schedule a flight set plus spares of the battery module.

Gauting, Bavaria, DE

Performed detailed design activities for battery module sealing, fastening, bonding/grounding, and composite hardware. Coordinated with suppliers to define and deliver composite lids and casings. Defined sealing and strength design criteria for module thermal runaway and nominal operating conditions.-Prevented rejection of flight set of casings after low.

Gauting, Bavaria, DE

Performed structural analysis and design architecture trade studies for fuselage primary structure, using hand calcs, Hyperworks, and NX 12. Delivered weekly architecture mass reports and presented proposals to senior leadership. Performed structural optimization using Optistruct and hand calcs to assess design concepts. Quantified mass growth uncertainty.

Hawthorne, California, US

Managed team for establishing Falcon vehicle design criteria and back-checking flight hardware, including reusability. Led vehicle structural analysis methods division. Developed and maintained Falcon Block 5 master design criteria. Coordinated design reviews and signed for preflight milestone closure. Revised pre/flight hardware capability process..

Hawthorne, California, US

Delivered and generated certification data packages, presentations, and analyses for government customers (USAF, NASA) of Falcon COPVs, fairing, and payload attach fitting. Authored content for the latest released versions of AIAA-S-080A/081B and participated in CMH-17 Spacecraft Working Group. Performed structural analysis using Femap/NX Nastran, Ansys.

Arlington, VA, US

Performed hand calc and finite element analysis (FEA) structural sizing and signed drawings for ALASA launch vehicle and Echo Voyager submersible programs. Performed detailed margin assessments for drawing release of Echo Voyager composite and metallic structures. Dispositioned non-conformances of Echo Voyager production hardware. Generated composite.

Wrote LabVIEW data acquisition software to conduct research projects directed by Professor Dan McCammon. Assisted hardware and software development for the sounding rocket launched X-Ray Quantum Calorimeter.-Contributed to understanding the position sensitivity of TES X-ray detectors by designing and delivering a motor-driven mechanism to move an X-Ray.

Arlington, VA, US

Researched FEA modeling techniques of bolted joints for Boeing Commercial Aircraft. Matured Visual Basic tool to create and execute bolted joint models.-Contributed to bolted joint tool on-time rollout by establishing correct techniques of multibody contact in Patran/MSC.Nastran.

Led the design and build of Singularity, a fully autonomous robotic vehicle that incorporates an omnidirectional 'crab-drive' drive train as well as an omnidirectional sensing suite. Obtained and managed funding.-Delivered Singularity vehicle which competed in the IGVC 2011 and 2012 and placed in the finals in the design competition.

Arlington, VA, US

Analyzed Space Launch System (SLS) aluminum-lithium cryotank friction-stir weld-induced distortions on the Vertical Weld Tool using Patran/MSC.Nastran.-Enabled barrel-to-barrel horizontal welding of tank sections by characterizing post-weld radial distortions on Vertical Weld Tool.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aerospace Engineering (Structures)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Engineering Mechanics And Physics