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Denver, CO, US

Denver Metropolitan Area

Denver, Colorado, United States

Norman, Oklahoma

• Performed research into the rate of Safe Drinking Water Act violations by community drinking water systems across the United States.
• Investigated disparities in service quality across Oklahoma, with an emphasis on systemically marginalized communities and potential environmental justice concerns.
• Conducted critical literature review, synthesizing existing research and subject matter into easily communicable information.
• Led data collection, cleaning, and analysis to synthesize underlying relationships and trends.

Littleton, CO

• Worked NASA Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle program.
• Developed MATLAB and Simulink scripts for Guidance Navigation & Control command sequences and operations.
• Performed unit tests to ensure verification of developed and existing Guidance Navigation & Control scripts.
• Developed and maintained test procedures to verify mission requirements.
• Coordinated communication test campaigns with stakeholders at Lockheed Martin, NASA, and Deep Space Systems.
• Conducting testing with hardware in the loop.

Littleton, CO

• Worked with the Systems Engineering Integration Team on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle program.
• Developed fault management algorithms for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle based on mission requirements.
• Coded Python scripts to execute fault detection algorithms.
• Generated Visio diagrams to visually depicting the fault detection algorithm logic.

Sunnyvale, CA

• Worked with the orbit analysis team on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite program.
• Preformed orbital analysis and trade studies of satellite station keeping.
• Conducted quantitative analysis of orbital maneuvers using Hall Current Thrusters, a form of electric propulsion.

• Researched the use of Coulomb forces for satellite attitude control.
• Manufactured a test bed to allow for attitude control experiments.
• Developed test procedures to safely operated high voltage experimental tests and electronics.
• Create a test bed visualization application in C++.

Boulder, CO

• Worked in the manufacturing department developing scripts to improve the department’s productivity.
• Preformed data analysis on radio systems hardware using VBA and SQL scripts.
• Developed radio hardware debugging procedures.

Boulder, CO

• Updated and maintained laboratory equipment for the aerospace department.
• Rewired control boxes for satellite spin simulations.
• Designed and assembled electronic circuit boards.

Environmental Engineering

Master'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Completed my masters in Aerospace Engineering with a focus in Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation Systems.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Minor: Applied Mathematics Dean's List: Fall 2011-Spring 2016 Active Learning Program Award