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Durango, Co, Us

Moorea

I design, build, and deploy underwater hardware used to monitor and improve coral reef restoration.

• Captained 50-foot sailboat across the Pacific with stops in Mexico, French Polynesia, Tonga, New Zealand, Hawaii• Developed onboard data acquisition system to test a novel product concept in the marine industry• Passionate boat owner with hands-on experience in numerous systems: composites, refrigeration, engines, electronics, rigging

• Mechanical engineering• On-site field support• Electrical systems• Instrumentation, controls, and data analysis• Hands-on testing and troubleshooting• Systems engineering

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Led avionics systems design and architecture trades for SpaceX’s next generation of satellite vehicles• Operated satellites from the command line and owned avionics end-to-end network testing at the launch site• Responsible for attitude determination and control system requirements, implementation, and integrated polarity tests

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Designed and qualified flight critical pressure and temperature sensors used for vehicle control and automated fault response on SpaceX’s Dragon 2 vehicle• Led team of engineers, quality specialists, supervisors, and buyers through PFMEA (process failure mode effects analysis) and a six month production process risk reduction campaign, which reduced production issues by 95%• Analyzed worst-case and statistical measurement uncertainty metrics for two hundred critical sensors, and established department wide methods to screen related hardware accordingly• Built instrumentation system to synchronously record thirty accelerometer channels at 100 kHz for around the clock anomaly investigations at test site in Texas• Mentored and managed interns in summer 2016 and 2017, resulting in successful projects and a subsequent job offer

• Started company with two classmates and secured three rounds of funding, totaling over $2M in two years• Invented sensors for AvaTech’s first product (SP1), along with algorithms to generate user-facing graphical outputs• Led SP1 field testing campaigns in mountains around the world to validate prototypes leading up to production• AvaTech’s SP1 and AvaNet received international recognition when featured in National Geographic and Popular Science, Fall 2014

• Researched hydro-aero-elastic modeling of floating offshore wind turbines for experimental design

Cambridge, Ma And Northern Morocco

• Conducted field work in Morocco consisting of geologic mapping, sample collection, and crystallographic analysis• Lab work at MIT focused on understanding how a 15x5km slice of the earth’s mantle was placed on earth’s crust• Processed and analyzed samples for detrital zircon chronology to determine drivers of end-Permian mass extinction