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Mojave, CA, US

Mojave, California, United States

Crane, Indiana, United States

• Established hardware-in-the-loop capability for a missile system conducting nominal and off-nominal flight testing
• Created a six-degree of freedom flight simulator for a multi-rotor aircraft in Simulink to run on a real-time computer
• Interfaced with a three-degree of freedom rate table for Inertial Measurement Unit evaluation
• Developed an automated testing framework for a hardware-in-the-loop testbed for faster turnaround

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Lead a team to successfully design, build, and test the avionics systems of multiple high-power rockets
• Designed and built a custom flight computer to determine the altitude of the vehicle and deploy staging charges
• Programmed the flight computer to deploy parachutes at targeted altitudes and transmit telemetry data to a ground station
• Successfully launched, and recovered a solid motor high power rocket reaching heights above 12,000 ft AGL
• Lead a team to successfully design, build, and test the avionics system of a 30,000 ft dual-stage rocket

Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States

• Created MATLAB scripts to calculate arcing energy dissipated in a switchgear from power switch testing
• Estimated toxicity of mixed dielectric gases from analysis of gas composition reports
• Developed strategies to determine the expected service life of switchgear products using alternative gases
• Performed high voltage testing on various insulative materials and switchgear equipment

Bartlett, Illinois

• Conducted electromagnetic simulations of ion beams in an MRI environment for cancer therapy
• Utilized CST Studio Suite to optimize the magnetic field strength of an MRI primary coil to 99.88% uniformity
• Modified a carbon ion beam scanner for use with a proton ion beam

• Worked as a team in an online environment
• Created a Preliminary Design Review to continue product design process and show all restrictions are considered, including $100 million budget, time, volume, and mass restraints
• Designed and justified multiple descent systems, lander systems, and payloads
• Produced CAD models of systems and components using Solidworks
• Created efficient manufacturing process including estimated time, resources/labor needed, and outsourcing
• Designed validation plans and mechanical verification systems for each component in payload and EDL

Romeoville, Illinois, United States

• Assisted professors in developing new activities for general physics laboratories
• Prepared and conducted classroom laboratories
• Graded student's laboratory reports and provided feedback

Romeoville, Illinois, United States

• Conducted research on autonomous long-endurance solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles for photography, surveying, and search & rescue
• Developed technology feasibility reports on small, long-endurance solar-powered UASs and created a technology demonstrator
• Presented a poster on the findings at an industrial conference for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Activities and Societies: SEDS Illinois Tech Rocketry - Avionics Design Lead (2020-2022) American Institute of Aeronautics and.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: President of the Lewis University Drone Racing Team (2017- 2019) President of Society of Physics Students (2019).

Education record

Activities and Societies: VEX Robotics (2014-2017) Technology Student Association (2016-2017)