Hunter Rudy Email & Phone Number

Kent, Washington, United States

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Mojave, California

As a Mass Properties Engineer, I acted as the Mass Properties focal for the Unity spaceship program. I accurately maintained all vehicle changes and interfaced with design, stress, and program management to solve ambiguous problems and meet company goals. To be effective in my work line, I worked as the Mass properties liaison, in charge of signing off and keeping track of all design changes for mid-and post-production space and aircraft. Furthermore, I streamlined strong inter-departmental… Show more As a Mass Properties Engineer, I acted as the Mass Properties focal for the Unity spaceship program. I accurately maintained all vehicle changes and interfaced with design, stress, and program management to solve ambiguous problems and meet company goals. To be effective in my work line, I worked as the Mass properties liaison, in charge of signing off and keeping track of all design changes for mid-and post-production space and aircraft. Furthermore, I streamlined strong inter-departmental communication to ensure the continued robust performance of vehicles avoiding any accidents. As the key contact person, I successfully led the full vehicle weight and balance measurement team on multiple occasions to match calculated mass properties well below scale tolerances following strict compliance with the FAA recommendations. I organized weight and balance forms for each flight based on DD-365 Forms and followed SAWE RP-07 guidelines and USAF-TO-1-1B-50 procedures. I also interfaced with various teams to ensure information matched vehicle flight configuration. Show less

Mojave

Having served as the Flight Science Intern, I successfully increased the trustworthiness and dependability of the flight dynamics software by creating an infrastructure that allows new models to be added to the physics engine.I handled the automation and verification of the mass estimation process for thermal protection system configurations to enable quicker trade studies on various TPS materials and configurations. In addition, I efficiently documented and digitized the data of… Show more Having served as the Flight Science Intern, I successfully increased the trustworthiness and dependability of the flight dynamics software by creating an infrastructure that allows new models to be added to the physics engine.I handled the automation and verification of the mass estimation process for thermal protection system configurations to enable quicker trade studies on various TPS materials and configurations. In addition, I efficiently documented and digitized the data of the vehicle’s 500+ thermal indication labels to pinpoint thermal hot spots on the vehicle to ensure the weight optimization and vehicle thermal safety of the TPS. I also operated in compliance with all regulations as well as safety and security procedures, including ITAR. Show less

The Texas Spacecraft Laboratory (TSL) at The University of Texas at Austin is a student-driven research group under Dr. Brandon Jones's direction dedicated to designing and building small satellites, securing launches into space, and operating them once in orbit. I was an Undergraduate Researcher. I developed and implemented the guidance, navigation, and control system for ARMADILLO, a CubeSat funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory. I authored and formulated the… Show more The Texas Spacecraft Laboratory (TSL) at The University of Texas at Austin is a student-driven research group under Dr. Brandon Jones's direction dedicated to designing and building small satellites, securing launches into space, and operating them once in orbit. I was an Undergraduate Researcher. I developed and implemented the guidance, navigation, and control system for ARMADILLO, a CubeSat funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory. I authored and formulated the orbital-position-propogation code using data from the onboard GPS receiver and utilizing JPL’s SPICE Toolkit in Python, allowing for reliable tracking of ARMADILLO at all times.Moreover, I performed and accomplished a structural and vibrational analysis on ARMADILLO to pinpoint locations and magnitudes of maximum stress using Ansys and altered design accordingly to ensure launch survival. On a separate project working with Orbital ATK, I successfully imported a high-fidelity virtual model of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft into Unreal Engine 4 and scripted the Cygnus image-database-creation in C++ to be used to test our team's image recognition software. Show less