Aerospace startup bringing a much needed third option to transporting freight across oceans. Offering a middle option with significantly shorter travel times than cargo ships, but a fraction of the cost and CO2 emissions of air freight.

I support a variety of Accelerators and Incubators as a startup mentor. I assist startups with networking, technical support, and defining/executing on collaborative projects/partnerships. Additionally, I have built a number of formal/informal strategic partnerships with accelerator and incubator organizations to maintain ongoing support to organizations and their cohorts.

My approach stems from a desire to help my client be satisfied and happy with their next steps whether it be a change in environment, a step up, or a transition to a new career path altogether. Using my professional experiences in R&D, consulting, the corporate world, and the startup ecosystem, I am able to best understand you, your goals, and your potential. I am open to work with you on anything from a resume critique to interview tips to helping you framing your near- and long-term professional goals.

As part of MITRE's Bridging Innovation initiatives, identify innovative and transformative advanced manufacturing technologies from startups and small businesses to address MITRE's Sponsors most pressing needs and challenges. As Technology/Engagement Lead, I evaluate technology and its application, mentor startups and small businesses, and facilitate partnerships and collaborations with MITRE Labs' vast expertise.

Technical Lead facilitating research initiatives developing mechanical designs. • Simultaneously coordinating environmental testing and delivery of drawings, and prototypes, while maintaining schedules and budgets for multiple projects regarding a new class of antennas. • Collaborating with multi-disciplinary team to conduct iterative design of various products. • Exploring novel material and design solutions enabling deployment of an all-metal 3D printed antenna into space. • Identifying opportunities to match specialized vendor capabilities with a project need enabling patentable design that reduced assembly part count by nearly 45%. • Reduced part cost by 60% by identifying design adjustment and changing manufacturing process.Advanced Manufacturing Engagement Lead bridging connections between the innovation community and clients’ needs. (www.bridge.mitre.org) • Formed Ecosystem Partnerships between MITRE and innovation ecosystem organizations to assist startup technology development. • Successfully networked with startups to generate multiple collaborative projects developing new technology in various client-focused technical areas.Principal Investigator researching new applications of multi-objective topology optimization. • Managing modeling team investigating innovative optimization techniques for improved size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) specifications on various platforms. • Identified a startup partnership to collaborate on research to improve computation time (up to 20X). • Evaluating universities and testing facilities capabilities to conduct testing for validating models. • Negotiate testing roles and procedures with testing facility coordinator to minimize risk and ensure testing success.

• Explored additive manufactured solutions balancing electrical and mechanical requirements for antenna designs to be used in space-based and other cutting-edge applications.• Partnered with MITRE to conduct Master’s thesis work consisting of multi-physics simulation (ANSYS HFSS and Mechanical) and functional testing of antenna prototypes to validate thermal performance.• Created custom 3D printed adapter solutions used to measure simulated real-world power usage of various commercial and military-grade equipment.• Evaluated and selected sensors for military applications and analyses.

As an Engineering Intern at Pentair: Valves and Controls, I supported the engineering team with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and material specifications. My work assisted in the delivery of orders to various US Navy customers accurately and on time. Furthermore, I was involved in the redesign of a valve to be certified by the ASME board as well as a team developing testing fixtures capable of withstanding forces valves experience during seismic testing.

In my internship at Pentair I worked as a Lean Manufacturing Intern. There, I learned about and applied Lean Manufacturing concepts such as 5S, 6 Sigma, Standard Work Documentation, and Kanban Signals. Growing into my role, I also had the opportunity to lead a cross-disciplinary team in Kaizen Event. As a result of my and my team's efforts, we dramatically improved material flow in plant where a process which was taking over a month, was reduced to less than one week.

I led an interdisciplinary group of students organized in teams conducting various projects focused on a sustainable approach to automobiles and energy. My project was focused on the thermal management of fuel cells and battery packs.We developed innovative thermal management ideas with phase change materials (PCM) and heat pipes. We aimed to understand the behavior of a PCM under realistic conditions. In order to do so, we designed, simulated, and manufactured a test apparatus (CAD, ANSYS CFX Data, data acquisition hardware and software, heat transfer fundamentals, and peer-reviewed literature).

I assisted a professor in her research on business in Latin America. Her research consisted of understanding societal, financial, and behavioral effects of microloans given to low-income women. As a Research Assistant, I conducted analyses on the income data and related it to various details describing the women.

As a Tour Guide and Resident Assistant at The Emerald Institute, I led a group of high school students daily around various pre-planned tours around New York City. As the local guide, I managed a budget for 15-30 students and chaperones to ensure admittance into events, tours, sights, and negotiated group pricing for meals. Additionally, I prepared and presented on various historic events related to the United States' and New York City's history.

During my time at KU, I took a course in the Center for Design Research. The course was a partnership with the Ford Motor Company which was requesting the development of concepts for gear shifting mechanisms. The project consisted of ensuring positive user experience while accounting for engineering design, safety, and other factors. Eventually, our team manufactured a functional prototype. We designed our concepts in a cross-disciplinary environment (Industrial Design and Engineering) through an iterative ideation process using client feedback and customer testing. (CAD software, additive manufacturing, and CNC machining)