Versatile, detail-oriented aeronautical engineer with seven years of industry experience across a spectrum of VTOL aircraft advanced design duties for commercial and military applications. In my current role with Otto Aviation, I provide class-A lofting support for the design of aerodynamic surfaces including wings, bodies, junction fillets, and ducted systems. I take pride in striving for continuous improvement.Previously, I was serving as a Staff Engineer in Overair's Flight Sciences group. In this role my responsibilities included vehicle layout and sizing; mission performance analysis; CAD lofting of outer mold line (OML) surfaces for release to manufacturing; detailed aerodynamic analysis of aircraft and propellers; and mentoring young engineers. I particularly enjoyed coordinating analyses and collaboratively leveraging that data into new understandings of vehicle capability.Prior to Overair's founding, I was an Aeronautical Engineer at Karem Aircraft, where I was fortunate to work closely with Abe Karem. Under Abe's guidance, I learned to thrive in the conceptual design environment, where trades are far-reaching and multi-disciplinary, and where initial design requirements may be only loosely defined. Seeing his approach to design, and how he was able to build upon lessons learned by past designers, helped shape my own perspective.Before Karem, I was a graduate research assistant under Ilan Kroo at Stanford University. There, I helped design, build, and fly a prototype modular UAV for the NASA LEARN2 program. That experience solidified my belief that efficient engineering is rooted in a solid understanding of first-principles, especially when exploring seemingly unintuitive phenomena.In my spare time, I enjoy learning new skills and tools, painting, bicycling, hiking, tinkering, coding, RC flying, and visiting local museums.