Technical sales and business development for the eVTOL, air taxi, and cargo drone market

Provided onsite global engineering support to customers across the US, Europe, and South America

• Directly led the M&P department with a team of 7 engineers and 6 technicians supporting Virgin Galactic’s space program• Set team goals, developed engineering career paths, and mentored engineers in a rapidly growing startup company• Managed the budget and integrated program schedule for the material test lab and outsourced testing• Responsible for all company material and process specifications, design allowables, and FEA/FEM material property cards• Qualified composites… Show more • Directly led the M&P department with a team of 7 engineers and 6 technicians supporting Virgin Galactic’s space program• Set team goals, developed engineering career paths, and mentored engineers in a rapidly growing startup company• Managed the budget and integrated program schedule for the material test lab and outsourced testing• Responsible for all company material and process specifications, design allowables, and FEA/FEM material property cards• Qualified composites, metals, adhesives, paints, coatings, elastomers and thermal protection for commercial spacecraft Show less

• Solved production process issues reducing non-conformance reports by 75% for SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo• Authored material specifications, negotiated specification requirements with suppliers, and led supplier audits• Interviewed each member of the M&P team and set the foundation for the newly created M&P department

• Built a material and elemental structures test lab from scratch as the first M&P engineer in a startup company• Procured thermal chambers, data acquisition systems, static and fatigue structural testing equipment• Authored test plans, created test fixture drawings using CAD (CATIA V5), and programmed structural test equipment• Hands on experience in layup, curing, machining, surface preparation, bonding, and strain gauging of test coupons• Evaluated environmental impacts on… Show more • Built a material and elemental structures test lab from scratch as the first M&P engineer in a startup company• Procured thermal chambers, data acquisition systems, static and fatigue structural testing equipment• Authored test plans, created test fixture drawings using CAD (CATIA V5), and programmed structural test equipment• Hands on experience in layup, curing, machining, surface preparation, bonding, and strain gauging of test coupons• Evaluated environmental impacts on material performance and tested in accordance with ASTM industry standards• Wrote Python scripts to batch process .csv files into stress-strain plots to calculate Young’s modulus and max stress• Analyzed failure modes and calculated statistical B-basis design allowables using CMH-17 methodology Show less

• Tested cure processes and zone 1A/2A electrical dissipation as Product Lead for a new lightning strike material• Wrote manufacturing documentation and qualified suppliers as Product Lead for a new composite strut technology

• Ran product development trials for carbon fiber composite automated fiber placement at customer facilities

• Managed $2M of pyrotechnic flight hardware for NASA’s Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters• Oversaw thermal, shock, and random vibration testing for fuse assemblies used in booster separation and range safety• Co-led an integrated product team responsible for $10M of ground support equipment upgrades for the Ares I program

• Developed IT solutions for small/medium businesses