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Redmond, Wa, Us

• Acted as a key interface between customers and engineering teams to resolve complex fielded product issues, providing timely and effective solutions to enhance customer satisfaction and system performance.• Streamlined communication workflows between customers, Product, Sales, and Engineering teams, ensuring alignment on technical resolutions.• Designed Fourier-based ground station performance evaluation approach for comparative analysis between fielded terminals and performance models.• Developed a fielded product data collection and analysis pipeline, integrating insights from deployed systems with Product and Engineering teams to drive iterative improvements in hardware and software

Redmond, Wa, Us

• SatCom RF and Communications Systems Engineer for metamaterial, passive electronically scanned array (PESA) antenna technology at start-up for commercial and government/DoD customers • Customer and partner facing responsibilities providing terminal integration, link budget, coverage, and network analyses for satellite ground segment antenna mobile use-cases.• Remote and on-site troubleshooting with customers on field deployed terminals.• Link budget and coverage tool using STK Connect and Matlab currently under development.• Newtec Dialog subject matter expert• Managing multiple contractors toward development of peripheral terminal hardware.• iDirect Network Planning tool used to optimize leased capacity for heterogeneous population of COTP and COTM terminals. • Mission specific SatCom antenna, terminal integration, and network trade analyses for space, land mobile, aircraft, and maritime platforms using Matlab, Python, STK• Antenna Subystem Module (ASM) and Satellite Communications System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from ConOps definition, requirements definition and trade analyses, through Verification & Validation to deploy and maintenance. • Projects include: Ka Rectilinear ASM for 3U CubeSat, 55cm Ka Cylindrical Thin Film Transistor (TFT) antenna for LEO ground station, Ka Cylindrical TFT ASM for Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) Inter-Satellite Link (ISL), Ku 70cm ASM for small aircraft (ARINC 741) and maritime platforms• Inter-disciplinary lead for Mechanical, RF, Electrical, and Software team coordination throughout SDLC• Technical presenter at design reviews, technical interchange meetings (TIMs) and proposals, for internal and external customers.• Link-budget analysis for mission throughput predictions, PESA aperture sizing, transponder channel sizing.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Radar SDLC for F-15 APG-63(v)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) for Aerospace Company ◦ Radar mode ConOps and requirements definition through model based systems engineering (MBSE) and iterative customer interaction ◦ Radar waveform design, air-to-air (A2A) multiple target search/detection/tracking, Kalman Filter State Estimation using Matlab, Visual Studio C/C++ ◦ Software integration with hardware, flight test design, data reduction and analysis ◦ Troubleshooting/re-engineering complex system and mode interactions to achieve system wide mission functions. ◦ System Verification and Validation• Frequent customer contact through Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), Performance and Customer Design Reviews (PDRs and CDRs).

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Requirements definition for interplanetary mission simulation and modeling platform. • Integration of COTS into enterprise wide simulation tool in a Visual Studio .NET development environment.• Developed Satellite Communication simulation framework for end-to-end link modeling.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Contributed to planetary analysis of volcano-tectonic features on Venus using Fourier and Spherical Harmonic methods.• Presented research results as oral presentation at Caltech.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Using Fortran and Matlab routines of planetary stress, strain, and thermodynamics modeled the contribution of planetary heat loss of volcano-tectonic features on the surface of Venus using Magellan gravity, topography, and radar data.• Presented research results at research forum at JPL.

• Generated time series’ of simulated comet models with an eye toward characterizing observational constraints in determining cometary nuclear rotational states. • Presented research results at National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) internship conference.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

• Wrote Interactive Data Language routine to reduce Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars into flux/wavelength analyses of Martian spectral absorption features.• Performed initial image reduction including dark subtraction and flat fielding• Contributed to preliminary analysis of datasets by generating localized spectra and examining the spatial distribution of atmospheric volatiles and surface minerals through their regional spectral signatures.

Master'S Of Science, Geophysics And Seismology

Bachelor'S Of Science, Physics