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Los Angeles, California, United States

• Designed and developed a TypeScript React Native mobile app that enabled users to browse and purchase excess food at a discounted rate posted by local restaurants in Los Angeles.• Developed an admin web portal with Next.js and TypeScript which enabled restaurant managers to post excess food to the GoodBite mobile app.• Designed and implemented a backend system using MySQL hosted on PlanetScale, Prisma as our ORM, and tRPC which resulted in a scalable system that featured end-to-end type safety.• Implemented an auto CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions using GCP Cloud Build and Cloud Run to automate 100% of testing and deployments.

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Designed and developed a TypeScript React web app that enabled 200+ contractors to mark up ad screenshots and capture custom data which ultimately supported projects worth $1M+/year.• Developed ASP.NET pages that empowered company admins to manage internal data which eliminated mundane developer tasks.• Spearheaded the migration of legacy CI/CD workflows to modern pipelines using self-hosted instances of TeamCity and Octopus on AWS EC2 which sped up deployments by 80% and enabled seamless rollbacks.• Spearheaded the adoption of Stack Overflow Teams as a way to improve knowledge transfer and collaboration within our tech and product teams.• Overhauled our entire Jira workflow process, which resulted in the elimination of bottlenecks and improved employee engagement in agile development practices.• Co-created an internal employee learning group with the goal of teaching development best practices by focusing on solving real company problems.

San Diego, California, United States

• Designed and developed a C# WPF desktop application using the MVVM design pattern that was used to showcase live test metrics during system integration testing and customer demos.• Developed a C# WinForms desktop application that simulated a ship's AN/WSN-7 Inertial Navigation System and was essential for testing GPS communication and fault procedures during system integration testing.• Developed and maintained C# test libraries that extended the capability of Automated Test Frameworks in accessing, collecting, and analyzing live/post-test data through mediums such as SSH, Ethernet, and Serial communication.• Developed a C# Selenium Test Agent that automated 95% of test procedures pertinent to the verification of the web application used to control the GPNTS system.• 1 of 5 team members awarded the Raytheon IDS President’s Award for applying DevOps in the GPNTS program which resulted in a $5M cost avoidance and a >50% reduction of time in formal test verification.• Created and published a 15-minute internal educational video used to teach engineers across Raytheon programs how to set up a Test Automation framework using Visual Studio and NUnit SpecFlow.

San Diego, California, United States

• Designed and developed a Python application that automated the process of calibrating and testing medical-grade thermometer patches.→ Python application enabled the complete control of sophisticated lab equipment such as a VWR Circulating Bath, a TestEquity Temperature Chamber, Agilent Digital Multimeters, Fluke Thermometer with High-Accuracy Thermistor Probes, BK Precision Programmable DC Power Supplies, etc.→ Python application included data visualization features that graphed and stored live data into a MySql database.• Wrote Python scripts to quickly and efficiently collect, process, and analyze live and post-test data. • Wrote and performed automated test procedures to validate the accuracy of thermometer patches and measure product performance against competitors.

San Diego, California, United States

• Designed and developed a Python application on a Raspberry Pi that served as the micro-controller and data acquisition system for a custom-built Flow Bench→ Flow Bench enabled operators/mechanics to quickly test the cooling efficiency of Turbine Blades.• Retrofitted a simple Flow Bench prototype to enable automated use which included the following upgrades:→ Control valve to control airflow→ Pressure transmitters to capture pressure readings at key stages in the Flow Bench→ Thermocouple to take readings of air temperature→ Analog to digital converters, resistors, and a signal conditioner→ Raspberry Pi that served as the micro-controller to integrate everything together→ Wired everything together using a few prototyping breadboards• Improved the data structure of an existing Python application to ease post-test data analysis in component lifing.• Created multiple Excel Visual Basic tools that automated engineering tasks and data analysis→ The best tool took an overhaul quarterly report that would take 2 engineers 10 hours to finish down to 5 minutes!• Worked hands-on under the guidance of experienced mechanics on turbine engine builds and tears downs.

San Diego, California, United States

• Served as a Quality Engineer and provided customer support to a foreign military program. • Supported the Quality Clinic and Quality Engineers on military/commercial programs.• Collected, prepared, and reported monthly customer escape Metrics.

San Diego, California, United States

• Led a team of six in the design of a twelve-passenger supersonic business jet.• Modeled and conducted extended analysis of the entire aircraft in SolidWorks.• Implemented a cranked arrow wing design to balance supersonic and subsonic performance.• Calculated the aircraft’s total weight, center of gravity, rate of climb, and moments of inertia.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Performed Initial research of technologies and their potential applications to Interiors products.• Designed and analyzed aircraft components based on regulatory and customer design requirements in Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0.• Created and manipulated the Bill of Material and technical documents.• Organized and tracked project and engineering data. • Performed drawing research.

San Diego, California, United States

• Tested and repaired PC hardware such as hard drives, RAM chips and multimedia devices. • Performed routine and corrective maintenance of Operating Systems (WIN XP/7). • Installed and ghosted WIN7 along with other programs as specified by user.• Prepared Faculty/Staff/Student computers for use according to SCEC Department guidelines.• Worked with the College of Sciences' faculty on backing up data and restoring data.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering

Full Stack Web Development