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Long Beach, CA, US

Washington, D.C., US

Washington, D.C., US

Washington, D.C., US

Supporting client's needs in the areas of Product Development, Materials Testing, Manufacturing Implementation, New Product Introduction, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Engineering, & Business Development.

Stanton, California, US

Macomb, Michigan, US

• Responsible for Product Definition & Production Operational Excellence of the Composite Tool Product Lines.
• Developed an operating framework for a 5-year Strategic Plan to grow the Composite Tooling Business and Expand Adoption of HyVarC Product Line.
• Delivered an improved cost Estimating Tool aimed at streamlining and increasing the accuracy of the composite tooling estimating process using operation metric feedback from the shop floor.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Global supply base responsibility for Aerospace Polymer & Ceramic Matrix Composite, Elastomeric products, & injection molded high-performance plastic products. Drove qualification of new suppliers, had technical ownership for strategic sourcing decisions and technical responsibility for supplier performance. Lead direct/indirect productivity through.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Hawthorne, California, US

• Dragon 2 Crew Vehicle -
• Developed flight critical TPS hardware for the Dragon 2 Crew Vehicle.
• Responsible Engineer for three major sub-assemblies integral to Dragon 2 thermal protection and abort systems.
• Lead TPS efforts to support multiple major qualification & test campaigns of the Dragon 2 Vehicle including the Propulsion Module, and the Dragon Fly capsule hover testing in Texas.
• Lead testing and development of materials allowables to qualify two major TPS composite materials. Testing included both mechanical & thermal properties as well as Arc-Jet qualification testing of TPS Materials at NASA.
• Designed, produced engineering models and drawings, and built hardware and components for development and qualification testing.

Hawthorne, California, US

• Designed and built new R&D chemistry lab facilities focused on resin synthesis and general use.
• Developed mechanical & thermal material property allowables for SpaceX CMC composite materials.
• Developed a Pre-Ceramic Polymer from bench top scale through pilot scale production.
• Established relationship with Toll Manufacturing vendors for full scale production of Per-Ceramic Polymer; Developed cost model for production.
• Used design of experiment methodology to optimize resin formulations and material processing methods for successful large-scale parts.

US

• Planned and executed material property testing to establish A, B, & S Basis Allowables for new materials & customer qualifications.
• Followed standard & customer specific test methods (ASTM, SACMA, Boeing, Lockheed, Airbus, etc.) to test mechanical properties of composite and neat resin materials.
• Major properties tested including: Compression, Tensile, Flexes, In Plane Shear, Lap Shear, Drum Peels, Fracture Toughness, etc.
• Help to maintain Lab Certifications/Accreditation from NADCAP as well as our Customer Specific Certifications
• Lead our Lab’s Peer Driven Behavioral Based Safety Team
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification – Ran project to study lot-to-lot variation in production material between 2 separate manufacturing facilities & made recommendations to improve material quality.

US

• Used Design of Experiment Methodologies to Optimize Material Formulations and Processing Conditions
• Thermoplastic Alloying & Cross-linking via Particle Emulsion Techniques on both a Bench top & Pilot Scale
• Thermoset/Thermo-Plastic Resin mixing, Test Panel Lay-Ups, Bagging Methods, Resin Casting, Autoclave, & Oven Operation
• Ordered mechanical & thermal property testing of new material test panels
• Communicated project results in the form of technical memos and quarterly reports

Pasadena, CA, US

• Member of the Phoenix Mars Polar Lander Project Team
• Built, Tested & Calibrated Ag-Ag Electrodes for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, & Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) Instrument Suite

Pasadena, CA, US

• Collaborated on Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) Project
• Helped to Develop Mg-O & Ti-O Aerogel Insulation for the RTG Thermoelectric Devices
• Used Sol-Gel Chemistry Techniques, Super Critical Drying, DSC, & TGA

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Developed an inexpensive test method to measure VOC’s emitted by plants
• Used GC-MS techniques to analyze samples