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Durango, Colorado

• Plan and execute hot-fire test operations prioritizing personnel safety and facility integrity aimed at achieving test objectives.
• Collaborate with propulsion engineers on instrumentation selection, test planning, test execution, real-time data analysis, and engine performance troubleshooting.
• Test facility design from requirements definition to schematic layouts, system HAZOPs, component selection, procedure development, commissioning, daily operation, troubleshooting… Show more
• Test facility design from requirements definition to schematic layouts, system HAZOPs, component selection, procedure development, commissioning, daily operation, troubleshooting, decommissioning and decontamination.
• Hypergolic propellant system design including propellant safety, material compatibility, cleanliness, propellant loading and unloading, and hazmat decontamination and disposal.
• Extensive experience with propellant operations, handling, management and incidental cleanup in Level B PPE including SCBA operations.

Durango, Colorado, United States

• Design of components for single- and multi-stage ejector systems including engine diffusers, supersonic nozzles, second throat diffusers and mechanical vacuum systems.
• Utilize ANSYS Workbench (Fluent, Mechanical, SpaceClaim, Design Modeler) for modeling of mixed gas flow through engine diffusers, characterizing flow state property profiles, predicting heat fluxes and sizing both.
• Empirical characterization of ejector startup, shutdown and… Show more
• Empirical characterization of ejector startup, shutdown and operational performance assessments.
• Installation, commissioning, characterization, tuning and troubleshooting of multi-stage ejector systems.
• Sizing and component selection for high-flow, high-pressure regulation systems to serve as motive gas supply for ejector systems.

Durango, Colorado

• Develop a physics based model for mass flow and pressure oscillations within hydraulic systems as a predictor for coupled fluid dynamics.
• Utilize MATLAB to write a modular program for evaluating transient dynamics within propellant feed systems.
• Applied model to isolate combustion instabilities from fluid resonances anchored with empirical data to determine where acoustic forcing functions arise during hot-fire testing.
• Create detailed documentation of analysis methods and… Show more
• Create detailed documentation of analysis methods and intended operation of the developed software.
• Write software to specify initial conditions to effectively achieve desired operational points for hypergolic rocket engines hot-fire tests. Show less

Durango, CO

• Advance methods for localization and navigation of an autonomous underwater vehicle.
• Analyze data to produce models of physical and chemical environments in 2- and 3-D space.
• Presentation of data to both professional and novice audiences in informal, academic and community engagement forums.

Durango, CO

• Construction of a physical model to represent the fluid dynamics associated with boundary layer cooling within rocket combustion chambers.
• Develop a design of experiments to evaluate individually isolated hydraulic characteristics.
• Fabrication of test sections to model rocket engine injector plates from metal billets using a manual mill and various metal working techniques.

Dillon, CO

• Deliver high quality customer service displaying excellent manners
• Employ time management skills in all areas of the hospitality industry
• Demonstrated industry specific knowledge to enhance guests' experiences

Asheville, North Carolina Area

• Assembly of semi-permanent structures in diverse venues tailored to customer specification
• Management of up to twelve employees at separate sites to accomplish multiple tasks concurrently
• Training and orientation of new employees
• Operational organization and planning for day to day project around Western NC

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering, 3.92 Gpa

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Envrionmental Science, 3.84 Gpa

Associate Of Science - As, Biology, General, 3.9 Gpa