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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Founder and CEO of Radiant Space Systems, Inc., a company devoted to lowering the costs of living and working in space and enabling new industries.

San Jose, California, Us

• Head of mechanisms group, including traditional and unconventional solar arrays, solar array drive mechanisms, cubesat deployer R&D, solar array offload test equipment.• Continued leadership of innovative patent pending solar array project, including project management, CAD, analysis, testing and funding proposals. Delivered project through from blank sheet of paper through to integration to the spacecraft as an in-flight demonstration unit. • Led anomaly investigation into mechanism failure, quickly identifying root cause and ruling out possible alternative faults.

San Jose, California, Us

• Responsible for leading nine-person team of mechanical, electrical & innovation engineers, technicians & interns for a 2-million-dollar solar array and battery project, from concept, PDR, CDR through to qualification and flight acceptance testing.• Lead design engineer and project manager for an innovative spacecraft solar array, designed to reduce array costs by 70%. • Project managed battery development that reduced costs by 85%.

San Jose, California, Us

An R&D engineering role in the Accelerator Lab at Momentus Space. • In six months took two propellant management systems from concept generation through qualification testing to manufactured and tested flight demonstration R&D units• Propellant management design now patented.• CAD design, ANSYS FEA and hand calculation load analysis, interfacing with suppliers, preparing drawings for manufacture, assembly, vibration & TVAC testing.• Aided in-house resistojet design.• Wrote an introduction to NewSpace mechanical design on own initiative.

• Independently took parts for spacecraft flight systems from conceptual design through CAD modelling in NX, finite element analysis in NX Nastran, produced .step files and drawings for manufacture, interfaced with suppliers and manufactures, cleaned and inspected final parts.• Oversaw vibration tests and analysed resulting data.• Wrote procedures on assembly, integration, testing, shipping and handling of flight components and systems• Designed and built ground support equipment (GSE) for aiding manufacturing, vibration and thermal testing, handling and transport of flight systems

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Continued numerical and analyical model development for the coiling and uncoiling behavior of tape spring booms for use on large scale space systems.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Developed finite element (FEA) simulations of creased thin-films to understand the unfolding behavior, like those used in solar sails & drag sails.• Ran FEA simulations and experiments on the packaging and deployment of ultralight booms, including tape spring and TRAC booms.Microsatellite project • Team member, team leader and mentor. • Ran vibration test of satellite subsystems with an in-house shake table. • Used CAD to design housing, hold-down and release mechanism, and coarse actuation and feedback control mechanism for ultra-thin deformable mirrors. • Mentored team who characterized a potential reaction wheel for the ADCS system. • Built a gravity offload setup and used it to test the deployment of the satellite’s deployable boom.

Christchurch, Canterbury, Nz

• Designed a miniaturized canard control mechanism for a small rocket. • Used ASTOS for orbital mechanics work for Rocket Lab Ltd, an entrepreneurial start-up company.

• Compiled well data books on all STOS fields.• Developed a cost estimate sheet to integrate project estimates with business planning including escalation and inflation for multi million dollar projects.• Wrote and implemented an automated system to update well perforation data using excel macros.• Built a web portal.

• Prepared CAD model, audits, vessel measurements• Conducted an independent audit of a mechanical construction company to arbitrate extent of piping welds yet to be completed• On-site measurement of vessels• Upgraded company website (www.itnz.co.nz) and intranet

• Private tutor of 2nd year university mathematics.

• Worked in the QAQC Department supporting non-destructive testing of the pipe rack modules for an on-shore production facility• Identified and requested non-destructive testing for welds• Baking and tracing electrodes for the workshop• Weld mapping

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

Master’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering