- System Surety Lead for the qualification of a program's Joint Test Assembly. Authored qualification plan, led defect prevention inspections of requirements and designs, conducted gap analysis of requirements tracing, and prepared and presented qualification plan to customers at design reviews.– System Surety Lead for the qualification of a deployed system. Developed tailored qualification approach and led successful qualification of the system within a reduced timeframe. Managed requirement set, completed requirement tracings to customer and component requirements, and compiled appropriate verification evidence for each requirement. Developed and led the production qualification process at the manufacturing site. Authored and presented qualification approach and results to SNL, DOE, and DOD customers at design reviews.– Simultaneously managed the qualification of 17 ancillary equipment tools within a program. Led drawing reviews with designers and production staff, negotiated requirements with customer, and documented requirement verification for each tool. Conducted first production unit inspections for every tool at multiple production vendors. Monitored production for non-conformances and teamed with the designers to analyze for potential acceptance, authored the exemption releases for accepted non-conformances.– Led team of Surety Engineering staff and managers to prepare presentation on qualification processes for STRATCOM Strategic Advisory Group.– Led team of Surety Engineering staff to compile learnings from recent rapid qualification efforts. Distilled learnings into Quality Plan and Qualification Plan templates.– Completed Surety Engineering Leadership Development Program.

– Designed mechanical components of Jewelbots using Onshape. Iterated on design elements for improved user experience and ease of manufacturing. – Built multiple prototype versions for user testing utilizing 3d printing and rapid PCBA processes.– Managed industrial design and electrical engineering personnel.– Collaborated on development of software and firmware for Jewelbots. Focused on integrating software and firmware with the hardware for testing, qualification, and improved user experience.– Led the sourcing and selection of contract manufacturer.– Managed the creation and submission of full patent application for the Jewelbots communication network.

– Designed, conducted, and documented qualification testing to meet all requirements for certification of the Harvester air sampling pods. Lead the redesign effort of hardware and software systems to address deficiencies. Developed mission operation procedures and led training of the Air Force Special Equipment Operators (SEOs) responsible for operating equipment while in flight.– Implemented flow battery model in Comsol Multiphysics, a commercial multiphysics modeling package. Conducted investigation into model components and transient behavior to identify prospective parameters to adapt to optimize the system. Collaborated with developers on incorporating needed electrochemical physics into Sandia codes.– Redesigned CFD model of material wear to run faster, include additional fluid physics, incorporate additional materials of interest, and improve the visualization of results. Validated model results against published experiments. Disseminated the numerical results to provide guidance and testable hypotheses for planning of experimental testing campaigns.– Applied chemical equilibrium codes to evaluation of material substitutions in enhanced blast explosives and identified promising candidate materials.

– Constructed CFD model of material wear, using GOMA, involving coupled thermal, electromagnetic, and phase change physics and chemistry. Quantitatively model the material wear caused by fluid mechanics and intermetallic phase behavior.– Developed numerical method to model phase behavior of binary, ternary, and quaternary mixtures of molten salts using classical thermodynamic principles. Worked with team to integrate classical results with molecular dynamics simulations and experimental testing.

– Researched, proposed, and successfully demonstrated the use of induced charge electroosmosis (ICEO) for controlling the motion of nanowires.– Developed and verified transient numerical simulations of the motion of nanowires in microfluidic channels. Extended the capabilities of the commercial software package, Comsol, with custom coding. The numerical method was added to Comsol’s example library.– Planned and conducted experiments of nanowire laden fluid flow in microfluidic channels. Captured and analyzed images acquired using dark-field or fluorescent video microscopy. Adapted particle tracking software to measure translational and rotational velocities.

Product design and development.Process design and statistical evaluation.Prototype build and test.