Member of the engineering staff with experience in project management, systems engineering, GN&C engineering, mission operations, and proposal development.Project Manager for the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) project, a laser communications technology demonstration of space-to-ground links between the International Space Station and a ground station in California. OPALS launched in April 2014 on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission and was installed on Express Logistics Carrier-1 (ELC-1) on the International Space Station. Over a three year mission, 54 optical experiments were conducted, including space-to-ground HD video transmissions, adaptive optics technology testing, platform vibration measurements, and links with foreign ground stations operated by ESA, DLR, and CNES. Systems Engineer for the DoD Technology Demonstration Program, performing cross-element requirements analysis, performance assessments, and utility recommendations. Working group lead for definition of major system architecture and interface elements. Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) Navigation lead, responsible for the navigation design of a low thrust mission intending to impact a 150-m class asteroid for planetary defense technology development.Team X Mission Design Chair, participant in concurrent engineering studies to assess the programmatic and technical feasibility of mission proposals. Proposals ranged from CubeSats to flagship missions.Multi-mission navigation analyst performing statistical modeling of uncertainties in spacecraft flight environments, spacecraft engine performance, and sensor data, filtering of sensor data to estimate flight dynamics, and calculation of engine maneuvers to re-target the future flight path for EPOXI, Stardust-NExT, Juno, and Dawn missions.Autonomous navigation (AutoNav) engineer for the EPOXI spacecraft flyby of comet Hartley 2 and the Stardust-NExT flyby of comet Tempel-1.

Performed graduate-level research as part of the Master of Science program in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Areas of research included guidance, navigation, control, and optimization algorithms. Research culminated in a thesis titled: "Boost-Through-Reentry Trajectory Planning For Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles."

Requirements Engineer, Advanced Programs Group. Developed, maintained, and refined requirements for the NASA Concept, Exploration, and Refinement (CE&R) Study, which examined potential architectures for a safe and sustained human presence on the Moon. Attended and presented requirements updates at weekly department meetings. Assisted in draft of final report to NASA.

Simulation Specialist, Mission Engineering Department. Developed an algorithm to simulate the kill vehicle stage of an interceptor missile for use in simulation tool.