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Athens, Georgia, United States

• Lead 2+ meeting weekly for the 2025 intercollegiate competition, dedicated to designing and fabricating a G12 fiberglass launch vehicle for the 10K COTS category• Coordinate 5 separate divisions, each assigned to interconnected subsystems of the launch vehicle• Assemble over 100+ individual CAD components for both launch vehicle and experimental payload on OnShape• Created and revised 5+ CAD models of a fully assembled launch vehicle for the Simulation team

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Manages and orders 4+ supplies monthly for Beginner Rocketry and UGA IREC Spaceport America Cup.• Collaborate and plan with club leadership about logistics for weekly meetings and unique events.• Designed a universal nose cone and shoulder for Beginner Rocketry on Autodesk Inventor and fabricated 20+ CAD designs by utilizing a FDM 3D printer.

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Collaborated in a 15+ student team to assemble a 10 foot fiberglass launch vehicle for the 2024 Spaceport America Cup intercollegiate competition• Fabricated 2 avionics bay lid and 3 centering rings utilizing a CNC Waterjet• Correctly assigned physical characteristics into the simulation software including mass, length, and position• Documented nominal operations, phase transitions, and disassembly procedures for the project technical report

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Fabricated and assembled a high powered, dual deployment rocket designed for COTS AP solid motor using heavy manufacturing equipment and adhesives.• Utilized a model rocket simulator, OpenRocket, to calculate flight characteristics before the rocket launch.• Designed multiple, small components on Autodesk Inventor to assemble onto the avionic bay after printing with a FDM printer.

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Built a beginner high powered rocket from raw materials under the mentorship of older members• Fabricated and assembled a dual deployment rocket for level two HPR NAR certification.

• Attended weekly meetings to learn and apply project writing practices for NASA standards • Collaborated online with 10+ students to research and develop a technical proposal on lunar LIDAR application• Completed 5 deliverables including a quad chart, shell doc, and Siemens NX Skill Module• Directed 3 other reviewers to critique and score another team’s project proposal

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Designed an absorptive muffler and assembled it onto the full assembly of the FSAE vehicle on SolidWorks while following FSAE standards.• Collaborated with different divisions to assemble the physical FSAE vehicle.• Fabricated individual joints needed for an absorptive muffler on a waterjet after designing it on Autodesk Inventor

Moultrie, Georgia, United States

• Designed multiple sketches before constructing the chassis of the robot.• Fabricated multiple frames/components and fully assembled them while integrating the electronics onto the final prototype.• Coded joystick controls required for the drivers team to manually operate the different functions of the bot.• Utilized JavaScript to create an autonomous code that optimally completes the most objectives in a small time window.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: UGA AIAA Chapter, UGA Motorsports, ASM, IREC (International Rocketry Engineering Competition)

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: FIRST Competition Robotics Team, KEY Club