I am serving a one-year detail at NASA HQ with the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) providing data driven analysis to decision makers on a wide range of policy issues.

I worked in the lab on a variety of diverse research projects with far reaching implications including a project where we looked at using existing building sensors (like CO2, temperature, and airflow) as well as social media to analyze and predict the human response to their environment. I also developed dashboard to display the results from neural nets on the sizing and synthesis of a lunar lander in a way that is comprehensible to design engineers.

I worked as a contractor supporting NASA Marshall's Advanced Concepts Office. My summer project was to write an interplanetary trajectory design/optimization tool in Python. This tool was to be used in the conceptual design phase and is capable of taking in a few basic inputs and then reporting out spacecraft state at every point in the trajectory regardless of the planets in question.

I worked in the physics/chemistry tutoring center on campus to help students understand physics concepts from the entire course catalog being offered by the university. I had to tailor my tutoring to the individual student based on class, experience level, and time commitment available.

I acted as a systems engineer on the KC-135 avionics suite, writing and managing test procedures, requirements, and design documents. I the main person responsible for several of these documents on a couple of different programs. I also ran many of the test procedures for programs, each of which were in a different stage of development and so had different requirements and goals for testing.