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Scottsdale, AZ, US

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Seattle, WA, US

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Lead engineer on a greenfield project to change the future of how police engage communities, including product definition, system design, and detailed design
• Contributed and reviewed thousands of lines of Scala code per week, enabling fine-grained control over evidence retention periods

Kent, WA, US

• Cut away 6,000 engineering-hours/year by building a web service for time-series analysis by employing a Python and MongoDB back-end with a Flask and Jinja2 front-end, hosted on Kubernetes with testing/deployment via.
• Further reduced data processing time from 210 to 20 minutes for > 1,000 test sessions by leveraging multiprocessing, enabling fast batch processing
• Slashed cost of employees searching for engineering drawings by 80% by recognizing customer needs, iterating on, and rapidly releasing a product using Terraform, Gitlab CI, Python, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Kubernetes
• Minimized cost of business intelligence extract endpoints by 99% by using Terraform, Gitlab CI, Java, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda and API Gateway
• Halved the time required for post-test visual inspections by developing Python to operate a custom-built robotic inspection tool

Kent, WA, US

• Supported a rocket engine ignition system, including design, modeling, analysis, drafting, manufacturing by metallic 3D-printing, testing, and data review
• Developed a valve manifold for the BE-4 ignition system, including CAD modeling in Creo, drawing in Creo using GD&T, internal release processes via Windchill, manufacturing by exotic metal 3D-printing and traditional.
• Intro'd semi-automated inspection tracking with Jira, which improved efficiency and allowed for the first-ever two Blue Engine 4 (BE-4) tests in a single day
• Assembled, inspected, troubleshot, and conducted tests on the most powerful liquid oxygen/liquid methane rocket engine to date, BE-4

Hawthorne, California, US

• Predicted, using heat transfer concepts, Excel, and VBA, and analyzed inter-stage purge heat exchanger performance across launch sites
• Developed VBA code to plan, procure, and install secondary cooling supply water for helium hydropacs

• Designed, fabricated, and analyzed a sub-scale, bi-propellant test stand to meet needs for testing a hypergolic H2O2/hydrocarbon catalyst combustor
• Predicted flow rates, using Excel, REFPROP, and VALCOR, for fluid system sizing and fabrication
• Built the test stand, including tube bending and flaring, while meeting requirements for oxidizer cleanliness
• Handled dangerous and confidential propellants properly while disassembling a previous test rig to reuse components
• Conducted an uncertainty analysis on results using MATLAB and presented results in a final paper

Hawthorne, California, US

• Trained on builds, created part numbers, authored engineering masters, attained approvals, worked closely with techs on first builds, redlined, and dispositioned issues for the integration of final assembly bench work.
• Communicated and coordinated extensively between avionics, engine assembly, components assembly, analysis, and design groups
• Worked closely with technicians to design in NX, 3D-print, and iterate nesting tools for problematic builds

Hawthorne, California, US

• Designed using VALCOR and VISIO, fabricated, installed, and activated a warming purge system to decrease post-test downtime on Merlin Stand, including lock-out tag-out, hands-on high pressure plumbing installation.
• Designed using NX, fabricated, installed, and performed extensive troubleshooting to allow for better filtration and density/temp. data acquisition on an upgraded fuel offloading system
• Designed using NX, communicated closely with a vendor to fabricate, and installed protection for vacuum jacketed piping and test stands

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

• Collected data for takt time simulations which determined and helped plan necessary buffer sizes for several body shop stations
• Influenced shop design in workshops to determine cell layout, process flow, and product flow considering a new body shop and product line

Atlanta, GA, US

• Analyzed all measurement gauges statistically using MiniTab
• Developed VBA for Excel code to compile, analyze, and present shop downtimedata, which enabled leadership to address largest causes

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, Global Engineering

Computer Science

Mechanical Engineering