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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Develop BlackSky's Imagery Derived Analytics pipeline deployed on Amazon Web Services- Build and train deep learning computer vision models on remote sensing data- Research and prototype imagery analytics for commercial and government intelligence applications

Dulles, Virginia

- Lead Systems Engineer for two-satellite national security technology demonstration program.- Provided technical systems engineering support to multiple phases of the system life cycle including proposal, preliminary design, detailed design, manufacturing, integration, and test.- Various roles included mission analysis, subsystem modeling, payload design, flight software development, and program management for multiple flight programs and internal research and development efforts within the National Security Space mission area.

Cambridge, Ma

- Research focused on identifying and modeling high-level design decisions that drive performance, flexibility, and cost for space systems.- Developed methods to explore tradespaces of several thousand architectures to identify optimal system development pathways.- Applied tradespace exploration analysis to next generation space-based communications networks and in-space transportation infrastructures for human exploration of Mars.

Huntsville, Al

- Member of the 2011 NASA Academy.- Worked on a five-person team designing a ground-based testbed for a Google Lunar X-Prize lunar lander. Responsible for the Guidance, Navigation & Control and Avionics subsystem designs.- Met weekly with aerospace industry leaders and technical experts in the Huntsville area.

Princeton, Nj

- Designed and modeled the attitude control subsystem of a conceptual technology development microsatellite for a space-based high contrast testbed.

Princeton, Nj

- Worked in the High Contrast Imaging Lab under Prof. Jeremy Kasdin.- Investigated modeling and control of MEMS deformable mirrors used for wavefront correction in the high contrast testbed.- Designed and built optical test apparatus to simulate dim planet light near bright star light.

Master Of Science (Ms), Aeronautics And Astronautics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Men's Rugby, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi- Certificates in Applied & Computation Mathematics and Robotics & Intelligent.

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