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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 • 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, 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.• Training and orientation of new employees including daily test operations, hazmat operations, safety and hazard assessments, documentation generation, and board style certification and checkouts. • Flow control component sizing and selection: process valves, regulators, pressure safety valves, filters, process piping, pressure vessels, etc.• Selection, integration and calibration of pressure transducers, thermocouples, flow meters, load cells and accelerometers.• Regulatory Compliance: ASME BPVC Sec. VIII Div. 1 Rules for Pressure Vessel Construction, ASME B31.3 Process Piping, API 520, 521, 526 Over-pressure cases, Sizing, Selection and Apecification of PSVs, NFPA 497 Electrical Area Classification, OHSA/NIOSH Workplace Safety Standards Show less

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 direct and indirect heat exchangers. • Empirical characterization of ejector startup, shutdown and… Show more • 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 direct and indirect heat exchangers. • 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.• Quantification of rocket engine exhaust gas properties using NASA's Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) software.• Calculations for determining the equivalent load of engine exhaust gases expressed in terms of free-dry air equivalent to communicate with commercial ejector manufacturers.• Regulatory Compliance: HEI Standards for Steam Jet Vacuum Systems, ANSI 75.01.01: Flow Equations for Sizing Control Valves} Show less

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 • 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 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