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Long Beach, California, United States

• Campaign owner for Aeon1 rocket engine qualification and acceptance. Created test plans to verify component and system level requirements, coordinated test stand and article readiness, and unblocked issues during.
• Authored control sequences, reviewed data for hardware health, and created automated pass/fail criteria to support rapid test cycles within the day.

University Of Southern California

• Qualifying an additively manufactured, 10kN kerolox rocket engine. Processed failure investigation results into system requirements for current engine iteration.
• Performed structural, thermal, and fluid computational analyses of various engine components.
• Ensured smooth operation of fuel-flow and water-flow test stands. Modified and troubleshooted feed system components, instrumentation, data acquisition software, and operational procedures.

Society For The Advancement Of Material And Process Engineering - University Of Washington

• Designed ply schedules to minimize weight of 9000 lb. rated composite beams for the SAMPE student design competition, and directed teams of 4-8 in their layup, cure, and postprocessing.
• Coordinated materials procurement and scheduling of beam builds and bending tests.

Fremont, WA

• Developed a MATLAB tool to calculate the bond strength of tape laid by an automated fiber placement machine at varying process parameters.
• Defined and performed calorimetry experiments on resins and adhesives to determine cure kinetics coefficients.

University Of Washington

• Prepared tensile test samples and gathered load frame data to model the fracture mechanics of chopped-fiber composites according to ASTM D3039 and D3410 standards.
• Developed script to convert ultrasound waveform data into 3D plot of suspected void-defect locations.

Master Of Science - Ms, Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering