Kaess Smit Email & Phone Number

United States

Los Angeles, California

Working as an engineer and project manager in the aerospace composites manufacturingspace▪ Specializing in composite part and assembly design, tooling design, and manufacturing.▪ Highly experienced in composite manufacturing processes – prepreg layup, tight-tolerancebonding, assembly, integration, trimming and drilling, and material / structural testing.▪ Lead engineer and program manager for the design and fabrication of a supersonic wingassembly and a rocket landing gear assembly.▪ Managed two teams of 5 technicians for a UAV manufacturing operation, various satellitestructures, and a spacecraft cargo module, producing over 150 unique composite parts.▪ Created layup tooling, bond fixtures, assembly fixtures, machining jigs, layup/ply definitions,and manufacturing work instructions for over 150 unique composite parts includingspacecraft fairing panels, a cargo module, a 30-foot wingspan composite airframe UAV, aKa/Ku C-sandwich radome, hydrofoils, cubesats, and fiber-optic embedded composite panels.▪ Designed, analyzed, and purchased over 75 metallic parts that were used to performacceptance testing of the Orion Spacecraft Launch Abort System fairing panels.

Tutoring high school students in math and science subjects.

Trained summers and eventually full time as an athlete on the United States Rowing team. 3-time medalist at U23 World Championships

Painted Post, Ny

Worked in Mechanics Research Lab, performing various testing and research on display glass technologies. Designed and executed a method to determine residual strengths with varying ion exchange processes.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Worked with design group at Silicon Valley labs – prototyping, market research, product testing.

London, United Kingdom

Assisted coordination of the broadcast from Aquatics Venue (Swimming & Diving) and in charge of article & information acquisition for broadcast team.