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Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Dallas, Texas, United States

Goleta, California, United States

Supported program management as a project engineer by tracking program progress using EVMS. Communicated with engineering team members within an IPT framework.

Goleta, California, United States

Worked as a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) growth engineer to grow HgCdTe thin films. Maintained lab equipment and growth chambers for production. Qualified MBE grown HgCdTe structures using XRD reciprocal space mapping. Assisted in a minor role to model radiation damage of HgCdTe IR detectors in space.

Goleta, California, United States

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Worked in the Palmstrøm Research Group under Professor Chris Palmstrøm as a UCSB Materials Department graduate student. Participated in two projects during tenure at UCSB: selective area growth (SAG) of III-V nanowire structures and growth of epitaxial tri-layer Josephson junctions, both for applications in quantum computing.Teamwork/Collaboration Experience:• Coordinated experiments and maintenance within the Palmstrøm team on the world’s largest interconnected MBE growth and characterization system.• Communicated results to collaborators and funding agencies.Technical Experience:• Disassembled, cleaned, and rebuilt a chemical beam epitaxy (UHV MOCVD) growth chamber.• Installed water manifolds, interlock systems, and other miscellaneous electrical hardware for semiconductor growth systems.• Maintained and designed UHV pumping and gas injection systems.• Studied selective area growth of III-V materials using chemical beam epitaxy.• Performed growth of epitaxial tantalum films on sapphire using MBE.• Developed nanofabrication processes to prepare substrates for growth.Teaching Experience:• Twice a teaching assistant for a cleanroom course on III-V wafer processing.• Helped students to design and process III-V materials for HEMT fabrication.

Laramie, Wyoming, United States

Worked for the University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources under Professor Patrick Johnson. Research efforts were aimed at creating electronic materials from coal-based feedstocks to help to transition away from the use of coal as a fossil fuel.Technical Experience:• Manufactured graphene oxide films via ultrasonic spray deposition and utilized direct laser patterning to create all-carbon electronic components.• Fabricated high surface area catalyst supports for organo-metallic catalyst production.Teaching Experience:• Teaching assistant for graduate-level reaction kinetics course.

Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

Constructed supercritical fluid extraction system for volatile removal from Wyoming coal.• Created a flow controlled reactor capable of high temperature and high pressure fluid extraction.• Used chemical composition analysis techniques to identify reactor byproducts.

Worked as a summer research intern synthesizing amine modified titanium dioxide compounds for carbon dioxide sequestration.

Master Of Science - Ms, Materials

Master Of Science - Ms, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering