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Hawthorne, California, United States

Responsible for M1D engines on the first stage of Falcon9, launching rockets from mission control.Other projects include development of the current M1D acceptance test procedure, thrust increases on the Jupiter3-Echostar Falcon Heavy mission, anomaly resolution, and flight hardware ownership in production, integration, and refurbishment.

Hawthorne, California, United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Developed from scratch single and multi-node thermal analysis models for the design of the SSRL's DORRE spacecraft.The multi-node model allows for design of simplified but arbitrarily shaped smallsats which can be examined in arbitrary orbits for user defined solar environments, components, material properties, and spacecraft attitudes.

Nasa'S Wallops Flight Facility

Supported mission and vehicle development within the Guidance, Navigation, and Control team as part of NASA's Sounding Rocket Program located at Wallops Flight Facility. Worked directly in the build-up, integration, testing and launch of a gaseous-nitrogen attitude control system for August 2019's RockSat-X launch, a student science mission launched from NASA's Wallops Island facilities. Qualified hardware for flight, and assisted with payload testing and evaluation.

Nasa'S Goddard Space Flight Center

I developed and refined a genetic algorithm in MATLAB to design and determine the efficacy of NASA's Near Earth Network ground stations through cost and scheduling support. A tool for plotting the inclination, relative latitude, and ground station visibility of L1 and L2 orbiting spacecraft was also developed for the Mission Design Lab. This was used in the design and planning of a proposed NASA deep space mission.

Nasa'S Wallops Flight Facility

Supported Near Earth Network with projects in spacecraft tracking, new technology analysis, and data analysis. Conducted materials research for Balloon Research and Development Laboratory to determine the damage sustained by balloon skins during flight. Created novel spectrum analyzer and graphing application in Matlab from scratch, supporting a complete GUI.

Pearland, Texas

Created database for legal document sorting and management using Microsoft SharePoint and Access.Compiled two years of lab data and reports through the programming language Python and Excel.