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Mclean, VA, US

Mclean, VA, US

Mclean, VA, US

• Responsible for the design and development of software tools supporting modeling and simulation capabilities for the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. Research and develop solutions for issues and.
• Improved procedure conformance rate of a Java flight simulator from 83% to 90% by identifying defects in FMS vertical guidance and control.
• Delivered historical wind prototype for desktop flight simulator on time/in scope using agile development.
• Improved reproducibility and correctness of aviation research in CAASD by developing CI tools and infrastructure for R package development.
• Improved software development practice by leading center-wide transition to Atlassian tools.
• Delivered capability for NAS-scale simulation of TAWS alerts (using Hadoop MR) by managing one intern.

Evanston, IL, US

• Developed mathematical models and numerical methods to study the structural development of bacterial biofilms. Responsible for maintaining legacy software and developing new libraries for solving scientific problems.
• Developed first continuum model to couple biofilm growth and deformation processes, using morphoelasticity theory.
• Developed a mixed finite element algorithm that solves a class of 5th-order strain-evolution partial differential equations.
• Removed duplication and increased modularity in legacy finite-element solver by refactoring to an object-oriented design.
• Improved runtime efficiency of linear algebra library using compile-time optimization via C++ templates.
• Increased efficiency of level-set initialization by developing a plane-sweep algorithm.

Evanston, IL, US

• Assisted faculty in the teaching and administration of undergraduate courses (Honors Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, and Complex Variables). Responsible for leading weekly recitation classes of up to 65 students.
• Increased student evaluation scores 38% over three quarters by improving my communication skills.
• Developed short seminar (13 lectures), “Control Theory for Applied Mathematicians,” taught to four other graduate students.

Provided best-practice guidance for data management and software tools, supporting 200 engineers on a flight simulator project at Lockheed Martin. Coordinated data migration to a new relational database, developed C++ API for training device clients, and worked with web interface tool team on feature development.

Akron, OH, US

• Collaboratedwithcolleaguesinappliedmath,chemical engineering, and physics toward design and development of novel thermophotovoltaic energy conversion device. Responsible for literaturereview and mathematical model.
• Improved fabrication of nanofiber TPV emitters by constructing a simple model of doping effects on output.
• Decreased false positives by 15–30% in a statistical spam filter prototype by developing a novel fuzzy-logic algorithm.

Akron, OH, US

• Oversaw design and construction of a novel energy storage system for a hybrid-electric SUV. Managed a team of 4 electrical engineers with budget of $2,600 Responsible for system architecture and development of.
• Delivered project on time and on budget using agile method.
• Eliminated dead cells and increased performance and reliability by designing a control algorithm to balance cell voltages.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Developed software tools for version control, build management, and continuous integration of the runtime infrastructure (RTI) code for a flight simulator.
• Automated simulator acceptance tests by developing a Ruby framework (4,400LOC) to deploy and run tests on remote (multi-OS) platforms.
• Improved RTI code quality by developing an automated fixture to build and test the code nightly, replacing sporadic manual builds.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Designed and developed an intranet application to manage network data interfaces for a flight simulator. Responsible for entire product development lifecycle, including design of the data model, migration of legacy.
• Delivered project (47,300 LOC) ahead of schedule, despite no previous web development experience.
• Reduced future development costs by adapting code into a template for rapid development of internal web-based data management tools.
• Decreased network interface problems by automating generation of 466 C++ files (130 KLOC) using most current data.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Responsible for all stages (design to deployment) of an internal application that identified and controlled shared-memory interfaces between software components of a flight simulator.
• Delivered project (30,600 LOC) in less than 3 months, despite no previous experience in Java programming or database design.
• Reduced development risks by increasing data availability to engineers via a Java desktop interface.
• Reduced future development costs by auto-generating interface documentation and C++ types for simulator code.
• Increased data integrity by designing a data model and migrating legacy data from MS Access into a relational database.

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences And Applied Mathematics

M.S., Engineering Sciences And Applied Mathematics

B.S., Electrical Engineering And Applied Mathematics