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South El Monte, California

• Provide technical leadership to the design, analysis, development, and testing of new and legacy fluid components
• Oversee several project technical lifecycles to ensure planned results are on time, within budget, and within scope
• Review heritage product design for conformance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications
• Create new ball valve product design by using 3D modeling, working with drafting team to create manufacturing drawings, and performing prototype functional testing
• Evaluate production issues to recommend solutions that will minimize cost and schedule impacts without compromising quality

• Perform a range of tests, including hydrostatic proof and static load tests, on propellant and pressurant tanks to verify proper function and production of flight components
• Compose and revise test procedures based on customer specifications to ensure safe and adequate testing of products
• Secure and monitor test specimens during vibration testing at off-site locations with customer witnesses
• Modified and set-up a Labview program to automate pressure cycle testing for tank qualification
• Perform monthly reviews of lab conditions and processes to improve safety practices
• Create standard practice documentation to preserve tribal knowledge and standardize workflows

• Developed a modular satellite bus system for the DARPA Phoenix Program, hosting payloads across three different missions: eXCITe, PODSat1, and SIMPL which is aboard the ISS and to be the first satellite assembled in.
• Determined specifications for spacecraft hardware collaboratively with members of different engineering teams
• Corresponded with customer as technical lead from design concept feasibility and experimentation to demonstration
• Designed complex mechanical assemblies for small satellite use according to given load, size, and interface specifications
• Utilized additive manufacturing/3D printing for rapid prototyping of designed parts to verify fit and function
• Prepared design review materials for internal and customer reviews

Berkeley, CA

• Designed a coiled tube heat exchanger using SolidWorks to be used with small scale mobile nuclear reactors used to supply power in remote locations without access to other coolant sources in times of crisis or emergency
• Managed a team of students to construct the coiled tube air heat exchanger to test the thermal transfer characteristics
• Used a mill to drill holes in support pieces to set proper spacing for tube coiling

Berkeley, CA

• Prepared, conducted, and analyzed radiation detection experiments to monitor the fallout spread from Fukushima
• Made the gamma ray detector shielding to isolate the sample and allow for maintaining the air filter
• Set up and calibrated the detector to be used on the roof for the continuous monitoring of gamma rays
• Followed laboratory safety standards for handling radioactive and toxic materials and liquid Nitrogen
• Gave presentation of accomplishments at the end of the working term to graduate student researchers

Brea, CA

• Revised drawings of butterfly valves; drew mounting specifications for an actuator
• Drafted a hydrostatic test procedure given specifications for a butterfly valve
• Communicated with supplier to purchase parts; created entries for new items in the company cataloging system

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Nuclear Engineering And Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Activities and Societies: Bible Club, Orchestra, Basketball, Track and Field, and Cross Country