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Olathe, KS, US

• Develop software and configuration (PDI) adhering to DO-178C/B as a lead software engineer for aircraft OEM programs for the new G3000 Prime avionics suite
• Orchestrate and integrate over 1,200 software changes within 18 months
• Deliver 20+ software releases to OEM customer for flight testing and certification
• Implement interfaces for LRUs such as Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS), Air Data Computers (ADC), controllers, displays, and navigational (NAV) equipment communicating via analog, discrete, and.
• Troubleshoot aircraft-level, system-level, and low-level software issues
• Solicit, analyze, interpret, and iterate on system and software requirements

Olathe, KS, US

• Implement embedded avionics software in C to DO-178B standard (DAL A) for Primary Flight and Multifunction Displays, enabling successful first flights of five separate aircraft to date
• Lead the Engine Indication System (EIS / EICAS) software component
• Write and review source code, high- and low-level requirements, and unit tests
• Contribute to the development and improvement of internal tools and processes

Arlington, VA, US

• Investigated new digital solutions in the commercial, business, and general aviation markets by working across functions, organizations, and business units within Boeing
• Defined and communicated new solutions to company management
• Designed and implemented an aircraft motion data collection and warehousing system
• Oversaw development of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) ground control station: Defined system and software requirements, led remote UX designers and software developers, performed system integration and testing
• Debugged and troubleshot distributed software systems using C++, Qt, Java, Python, Docker
• Analyzed, cleaned, structured, and enriched big data sets (8M rows) using Python, R, Hive, Apache Spark and Hadoop

Arlington, VA, US

• Investigated new digital solutions in commercial, business, and general aviation
• Defined and communicated new solutions to company management
• Developed software requirements and architecture for new aviation applications
• Inventor of U.S. patent 11,315,432

Arlington, VA, US

• Wrote a Master's thesis on Contingency Management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems at Boeing Global Services DA&A Lab Denver within the Research & Rapid Development group.
• Researched commercial UAS technologies and operational aspects, specifically with respect to contingency management and autonomy for BVLOS operations
• Architected, designed, and implemented new onboard risk-based re-planning algorithms for lost link situations into the PX4 open-source UAS autopilot using C/C++
• Adapted a real-time physics simulation environment for UAS missions and algorithms based on the Gazebo robotics simulator in C++

Arlington, VA, US

• Developed a software prototype to control multiple UAVs:
• Conducted necessary research on the SDK provided by the drone manufacturer
• Developed simple multi-threaded software architecture, implemented the software in C under UNIX
• Manipulated parts of the drone’s internal firmware utilizing Linux tools
• Conducted demonstrations to executive level management, as well as partners from the industry and academia, using the developed software
• Exceeded the set goals in a time-critical environment: 1 month from project assignment to stakeholder demo; the initial goal was to connect to and fly one drone, the system was ultimately able to handle 3 or more drones

Denver, Colorado, US

• Full-time internship in the Research & Rapid Development department of Boeing Global Services.
• Supported back-end and front-end development of a research demonstrator application in R to showcase new BGS analytics capabilities and product concepts within the Boeing ecoDemonstrator program
• Developed an R package to interface with Boeing internal APIs
• Supported App Development in C#
• Worked on an exploratory project into Blockchain technology and applications, submitted two invention disclosures for intellectual property

• Full-time internship as a Test Engineer in the ALSTOM Power R&D laboratories (later acquired by GE Power).
• Tested hot gas path components for large gas turbines in the 300MW class to validate their performance
• Performed state-of-the-art heat transfer measurements utilizing the Thermochromatic Liquid Crystals (TLC) technique and infrared thermography, spanning from experiment design and setup to processing and analyzing the.
• Conducted flow tests on 3D-printed gas turbine prototype parts
• Investigated the mixing behavior of newly developed gas turbine combustors using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser induced fluorescence (LIF)
• Developed and improved data post-processing routines for the TLC and IR techniques using Matlab and FLIR Research IR

Stuttgart, DE

• Part-time student research assistant and Bachelor's Thesis at the University of Stuttgart's Institute for Thermodynamics in Aerospace Engineering (ITLR).
• Performed Computational Fluid Dynamics on gas turbine blade internal cooling channels
• Completed a computational grid study using ANSYS ICEM and CFX on 17.3M nodes
• Developed perl scripts for post-processing and analysis

Stuttgart, DE

• Part-time Research Assistant in the additive manufacturing and lightweight design group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart.
• Researched and assisted with Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) processes
• Researched and assisted with Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) processes
• Designed and manufactured a test rig for prototype composite parts

• Designed and developed web applications in PHP, XML, HTML4, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
• Assisted customers

Paris Cedex 15, FR

• High-school student internship
• Investigated out-gassing behavior of plastics in space-like environments

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computational Engineering

Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

High School Diploma ("Abitur")