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Hawthorne, California, US

Provide technical direction and expertise to design, analysis, test, operations, and anomaly resolution to ensure mission success. Ensure structure, propulsion, and avionics systems interact and are integrated successfully. Develop technical design requirements and verification strategies for new human-rated spaceflight technologies, such as advanced.

Long Beach, CA, US

Develop vehicle and program requirements, integrated design strategies, cross-disciplinary verification methodologies, material review board authority for safety critical systems, evaluate engineering risk, and lead failure investigations. Lead cross-disciplinary teams across the company to solve difficult technical issues; define component/system.

Long Beach, CA, US

Lead the rocket, plane, ground, telemetry, and guidance and navigation systems during launch operations. Responsible for launch commit criteria for all organizations, coordination of engineering with safety and launch operations, and anomaly resolution. Authority to call launch aborts and communicate directly with the aircraft. Launch chief engineer on.

Long Beach, CA, US

Define requirements, design strategies, verification methodologies, and provide structural, propulsion, and pressure systems technical leadership for Spaceship Two (SS2) and Launcher One (L1) programs. Provide technical leadership for the design, manufacture, and integration of unlined-composite fuel and cryotanks, and composite-overwrapped pressure.

Tustin, CA, US

Define requirements, design strategies, verification methodologies, and provide structural, propulsion, and pressure systems technical leadership for Spaceship Two (SS2) and Launcher One (L1) programs.

Mojave, CA, US

Serve as the technical lead for Spaceship Two propulsion fluid systems. Define the SS2 propulsion system design, verification and safety requirements in coordination with FAA guidelines. Determine, verify, and integrate propulsion system structure, valve timing, line sizing, and relief device performance. Propulsion console operator for Spaceship Two.

Provide technical leadership for Metallic and Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV) for all crewed spaceflight programs. Define safe operational controls for experimental pressure systems being developed and tested at Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field. Enacted a stress rupture test program to ensure the safe continued operation of the ISS.

Lead the implementation and interpretation of fracture control for the Space Shuttle, Orion, and ISS programs. Work with international partners, hardware developers and program offices to maintain safe levels of damage tolerance on systems with catastrophic failure modes. Provided technical leadership for defining requirement variations, implementing.

Develop and implement new methodologies to improve fracture mechanics. Evaluate NASA design procedures for technical accuracy and to support NASA research in fatigue and fracture by serving on the NASA Fracture Control Panel. Received the NASA Team Excellence Award for outstanding and timely contributions providing mission critical improvements to the.

East Hartford, CT, US

Developed experimental procedures and computational models to increase aircraft safety through damage tolerant design. This included usage requirements, residual stresses, manufacturing methods, complex loading conditions, material characterization, reliability and also required coordinating efforts with regulatory agencies.  Led the metallic structures.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Associate'S Degree, Engineering Science