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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Developing and automating operations for Astranis' fleet of GEO internet satellites

Los Angeles, California, United States

Flight Control Team - commissioning for James Webb Space TelescopeSupport of contract closeout reports and activities for James Webb Space Telescope

Redondo Beach, California

- Member of Flight Control and Mission Operations Teams for $10 billion mission, with responsibilities including major deployments team operations, mission schedule management/generation, and anomaly response coordination and product development. - Mastered knowledge of overall ecosystem of observatory subsystems with enough fidelity to provide proactive and autonomous assistance to JWST Major Deployments Lead, including noticing upcoming complications and explaining non-deployments hardware/activities. Mastered timeline of commissioning activities, including activity dependencies, with enough knowledge to work with system teams to re-plan days’ worth of mission critical activities with no immediate supervision. - Built/coded contingency mission products including contingency communications data products, redundant motor operations and thermal products, and multi-command phased responses. Self-directed design, construction, testing, peer review, and submission of over 100 contingency products. - Developed test plans, executed testing, briefed NASA on data to flight certify all software products used in JWST Major Deployments. Completed same process for multiple versions of software coding of minute by minute mission plan for first thirty days of JWST post launch commissioning. Tested, sponsored, and submitted over 400 individual products, each performing unique functions on the observatory. - Rated top performance bracket in department performance reviews for 2020 and 2021

Los Altos, California

Reported directly to CEO and COOPerformed customer research, designed, ideated, modeled, and prototyped new case for ThinOptics reading glass bookmark combination line. Worked with manufacturing vendors, distributors, and handled post launch customer survey work

San Francisco Bay Area

Sorted and ran analytics on user collected data, ensured data quality, and came up with solutions for more efficient data categorization.

San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted in organization, storyboarding, workflow management, product creation, and editing for educational material, with clients such as National Geographic. Worked with a team of twelve project managers, visual artists, and animators. Successfully delivered ten batches of custom video content to clients totaling 8 hours of content.

First job. Worked full time during summer and part time during school year for last two years of high school. Worked with a team of five to handle customer sales and orders, prepare products and dishes, keep shop running smoothly and cleanly, and carry out basic sales analytics. Learned work ethic and interpersonal business communication.