Establish robust understanding of vehicle architecture, dependencies, and system interactions in multidisciplinary role interfacing with all subsystemsLead design criteria definition for tight hardware deadlines, provide critical review & approval on 50+ requirement/design reviews and make/buy pointsPrimary contributor of driving use cases & requirements for robotic arm request for proposal (RFP), evaluate 4 key proposals on technical feasibilityContribute to development and build-out of MBSE model and environment via SparxEACollaborate with REs to develop flight hardware and GSE requirements with verification criteria on aggressive timelines for constantly evolving designsDrive joint review and approval of 100+ verification plans with NASA customer counterpartsStreamline day-to-day operations by challenging & eliminating unnecessary use cases, lead approval of first ever formally baselined propulsion and payload requirements2023 McKinsey Leadership Academy graduate, earning 3 certifications and applying them in role, producing 70% operational efficiency improvement

Systems Engineering & System Design at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®Leverage first principles and fundamentals to conduct trade studies, drive requirements definition, determine KPPs, and develop architecture/ConOpsPresent 5+ technical design reviews, in-person and virtually for classified and unclassified programs, winning $10-30 million follow-on contracts2021 Vega Program graduate, a highly selective, 1-year program that invests in qualified early-career talent to be future technical experts by conducting IRAD work in conjunction with senior fellows/SMEs. Presented research, findings, and strategic importance to senior leadership and stakeholders.Found & co-host a podcast to bridge gap between new hires and experienced employees, expanded to 3 locations and recorded 25+ episodes within 1 year.Serve and assist the 2021 summer intern program. Help organize seminars, trainings, leader lunches, mentors, special tours & social events to boost engagement, improve retention, and maximize new hire experiences.

Provide structure and infrastructure-centric all-source analysis in support of customer requests for information in order to identify and exploit vulnerabilities and collection opportunities for future or on-going operations.Work on a multi-intelligence fused team consisting of other all-source analysts, IMINT and GIS specialists, SIGINT analysts, Culture and Language analysts.Present assessments to leadership, internal and external customers as well as the intelligence community and interagency partners.Provide research support for IC and IA analysts who produce targeting reports and briefings.Research, analyze, and provide professional intelligence assessments that support tactical, operational or strategic goals of customers.

Awarded 1st place in national SEDS SAT-II competition to develop 1U CubeSatThe inspireFly team’s mission is to design and develop a novel CubeSat that presents a unique style of access to space for the general public, while demonstrating new technologies for future satellite and space vehicle applications. We will present diverse, quickly-accessible, and affordable outer space opportunities worldwide through our CubeSat, ContentCube, while expanding capabilities in the space environment. Our team is driven by its core values of inspiration, diversity, effectiveness, ambition, and sincerity.As chief engineer, I'm leading 50+ undergraduate team members through the design, development, and testing of a novel CubeSat while driving engineering & technical progress to achieve PDR-level status for a national competition RFP from Astranis/NanoRacks/SEDS-USA. I work closely with our academic mentors & industry sponsors such as NASA, Lockheed Martin, Irvine CubeSat Program, and the Ecuadorian Space Agency (EXA) and take advantage of project management tools to dynamically control scope, time, cost, risk, quality, requirements.

Metallic and composite aircraft part design (CATIA V5) adhering to design/manufacturing standardsStructural analysis of composite layups and GFEM model using FEMAP with NX Nastran and Excel toolsDesign and implement visual basic (VBA) routines using built-in Application Programming Interface (API)Additional focus: corporate citizenship, community service, and program development with One Boeing mindset

3DPAC Design Team is Virginia Tech's first ever fully 3D-printed aircraft competition design team. With expanding 3D-printing technologies, the challenge of leveraging the design freedom for improved performance while satisfying fabrication process constraints has increased. The national competition held annually at the University of Texas, Arlington (UTA) challenges students to: integrate design & advanced additive manufacturing to maximize mission performance, design within the printing process and material constraints, develop lightweight, fully 3D-printable airframe configurations, leverage direct digital manufacturing technologies, and develop team and hands-on design experience. The two primary categories are Fixed-Wing & Rotary-Wing.As the prior team lead and RC pilot, I led a group of 20 multi-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate students (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Physics, Industrial Design) through the full research, design, and development process (of the team’s 1st & 2nd years) to prepare for competition in July of 2018 & 2019. The sub-teams are: Integrated Flight Control and Automated Avionics Systems (IFCAAS); Aerodynamics & Structures (A&S); Additive Manufacturing and CAD (AMCAD). One of our biggest objectives for 2018-19 was a fully-autonomous control system and modular vehicle design.In July of 2018, we won 1st place in the national, 3D-printed DBF-style competition with over 30 teams. My responsibilities included: heading weekly meetings, investigation, research, design, development, analyses, testing, and management/funding; hands-on FDM & Polyjet 3D-printing; organic control surface development; structural, weight, aerodynamic, & stability analyses performed to optimize controllability for various airframe geometries; wind tunnel testing; skills & software include: MATLAB, Mathematica, CAD (Inventor/Onshape), Inspire 2018, XFOIL, OpenVSP, GrabCAD/Print, Microsoft Office, Project Management, RC piloting

Rocketry at Virginia Tech is a competitive, high-power rocketry design team that competes in the Spaceport America Cup (previously known as IREC) held each year in Las Cruces, NM. With hundreds of teams from colleges and universities in over a dozen countries, this competition is the world's largest rocket competition at the college and university level.As a Vehicle Systems Engineer, I am responsible for vehicle development on three fronts (Aerodynamics, Structures, and Research & Development), including: OpenRocket development, rolleron analysis, & aerodynamic design; structural design and fully modular implementation using CAD software (SOLIDWORKS); vehicle manufacturing using composite layup techniques (carbon fiber, fiberglass, Kevlar, etc.); full vehicle integration with other subsystems (Avionics, Payload, Propulsion/Hybrid Engine, etc.); work with integrated Active Drag Flight Control System to precisely achieve rocket's apogee; use software such as ANSYS & OpenFOAM to carry out Finite Element Analysis (FEA) as well as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysesFor the 2018-19 competition year, we are aiming to develop a rocket for the 10,000 ft Hybrid Propulsion category. In the last two years, the team has competed in the 10,000 ft Solid Propulsion category.We are currently actively searching for industry sponsors for 2018-19! Past sponsors have included: Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC), a.i. solutions, Aurora Flight Sciences, Truesdell Engineering, and many more.

Center for Space Science and Engineering Research: Virginia Tech is 1 of 3 universities participating in the Virginia CubeSat Constellation (VCC) mission, a NASA Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project (USIP) mission to fly three 1U CubeSats in a constellation; these satellites will provide valuable atmospheric science, drag, and orbital decay data from LEO after deployment from the ISS. This is the first ever fully student-led flight project to design, develop, integrate, test, and fly three 1U CubeSats in collaboration with NanoRacks, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Virginia Space Grant Consortium. In 2017, the VCC endeavor was selected by NASA to be launched as part of the ELaNa program. As of now, our launch is planned for early 2019 from Cape Canaveral (NASA Kennedy Space Center).I served as the team lead for both Structures & Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) teams. My responsibilities include: working with assembly & flight hardware (AlNiCo magnets, hysteresis material, MSP430, IMU, anodized aluminum rails, 3D-printed chassis, conformal coating, etc.); designing/developing ADCS system; conducting vibrations testing at NASA Langley; operating in Class 10000 clean room with proper gear (anti-static mats, ground-straps, ESD lotion, etc.) & laminar flow benches; ground station work (physical construction/mechanical work, communications & telemetry, learning COSMOS); CAD (Autodesk Inventor); Project Management; leading full integration with other teams including Power/Electrical, Software, and Command & Data Handling (C&DH)

Head developer on AGI Systems Tool Kit (STK) for direct mission analysis of SharkSat Mission, a Northrup Grumman initiative to have an Amazon (AWS-integrated) Earth-imaging 3U CubeSat, including concept of operations (con-ops) & mission profile development; STK/MATLAB integration modeling & GUI creation for CubeSat mission launch; analyzed ground station access & coverage, orbital velocities and vectors, eclipse intervals, etc.

Lead analyst of 6U CubeSat project for orbital planning, coverage, and lifetime analysis using STK; designed a modular satellite bus for in-house development to use on future missions; focused on ground station communication, concept of operations (con-ops) & mission profile development, in-orbit data collection; STK Level 1 certified (working towards Level 2 certification)

Orbital Launch Vehicle Team (OLVT) is a student-led team at Virginia Tech working to place a 5U (7 kg) CubeSat payload into LEO by designing and building a two-stage launch vehicle capable of bypassing the Karman line. Something like this has never been done before by an amateur organization (i.e. not a government or large government-aided corporation) and it will have huge implications for low-cost access to space. Colleges across the country could follow our lead and develop a method to put satellites and small experiments into space themselves. This will give a serious boost to the space industry and give students who are, like us, extremely passionate about space an opportunity to gain hands-on experience on a project that is directly relevant to their future careers. It will also allow Virginia Tech to develop a ground-to-LEO launch service for other universities' projects, which will provide income for the Team to enable us to keep innovating.As a launch and early operations engineer, my role involves developing a transporter-erector-launcher system, designing & implementing safety/lockout-tagout training procedures, and serving as systems/integration engineer for Propulsion, Avionics, and Mechanical Systems teams

Virginia Tech RockSat-X is a competitive sounding rocket payload design & manufacturing team that develops science experiments and corporate technological demonstrations for flight on a modified Terrier Malemute Sounding Rocket. Launches take place yearly from NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) as a joint NASA WFF/Colorado Space Grant Consortium (CoSGC) national initiative.I served as the Mechanical Team Lead (technical & management work) for the Virginia Tech RockSat-X team. Goals for 2018-19: test fully deployable-retractable solar array for future CubeSat/SmallSat energy-production applications during suborbital flight; in-house developed experimentation will include multi-layer insulation (MLI), sun/radiation sensor, thermal/IR/video cameras, structural data analysis, power system development, etc.Notable initiatives & achievements in past years:● 3D Printing in Microgravity: developed 3D printer with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components; fully functional printer fitting specific weight/size requirements to fly on sounding rocket; payload recovered; confirmed function at 150 km altitude● Software Defined Radio: Orbital ATK (OATK) sponsored initiative; team used COTS Ettus Research E310 SDRs to transmit data collected during flight (150 km apogee) directly from rocket to two ground stations on Earth: mobile ground station (WFF) & university ground station (VT campus in Blacksburg); provided maiden flight of Ettus Research E310 in space; developed flight electronics, PCB design (Eagle), microcontroller programs, etc.● AIS/ADS-B Boat / Plane Tracking From Space: OATK/Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) sponsored initiative; team developed SDR system to track signals from terrestrial boats & planes from space; telemetry transmitted across the state to VT's ground station in Blacksburg● STEM Outreach & Education: In 2018, team worked with local high school; classes designed science experiments to fit on single computing board (ThinSat)

Autonomy & Robotics at VT: Design multi-vehicle antenna tracking system; develop testing platforms and test matrices (impedance, accuracy, range, etc.); integrating hardware modules fitted onto human-like manikins (with power module, battery, Pixhawk 2.0, antenna, GPS/IMU) with antenna tracker dish assembly; software guidance & control (autonomous quadrotor response and assessment) via ArduPilot Mission Planner; conducted data reduction & analysis

Collaborate with staff to resolve conflicts and facilitate inclusive environment; help, work with, and inspire freshman/transfer students; serve as the lead RA for many community/hall programming events and assist supervisors and other teams of RAs in developing and carrying out similar undertakings; focus on professional development both in and out of the role; lead and oversee five residence halls with over 1,200 students and 8-10 budget lines

Given RFP (including aircraft weights, torques, velocities, engine details, wing parameters, specific aerodynamic coefficients/analysis, wind tunnel data, etc.) and a total team of six engineers, goal was to design a new wing and fuselage for a new airplane modeled after the Boeing 787; applied thin-walled structures theory and principles to fully design and model cross-section, wing spars, skin, stringers, ribs, etc. as well as loads on the fuselage due to wing/tail/payload/fuel using CAD software (Autodesk Inventor) and analysis routines (MATLAB, Excel, & Mathematica); analyzed and designed for static, take-off/flying, and engine-out/malfunction scenarios; researched & planned for multiple production materials (with full re-adjustment of design & analysis); created and justified detailed decision matrices; generated bubble charts; achieved safety, weight, loading, & cost constraints; highly-iterative design process with additional focuses on weekly progress reports as well as preliminary, critical, and final design review (PDR, CDR, etc.) presentations

Design and conduct propulsion trials for new nozzle design; work with skin aerodynamics; assist lead engineer with wind tunnel testing; iterative design and development process; suspension and mechanical experiments; SOLIDWORKS design

Acoustics project; computational modeling/simulation of noise propagation/attenuation (CadnaA software & GIS tools); develop technical solutions based on ISO standards (acoustics/software) and empirical field testing to solve a real-world problem on campus caused by concert held on the Drillfield

Data analytics, file management, Excel, data center work, networking, RFPs, weekly meetings, client updates, reporting and presentations

Lead project team of 12 through project life cycles with several stakeholders; design, code, and develop full websites for two independent client organizations; manage scope, risk, cost, & quality, as well as requirements analysis, weekly team & client meetings; Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM, 2015); Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Manager of the Year (2015); familiar with Agile Project Management w/ Scrum; looking to obtain PMP certification

Lead project team of 8 through project life cycles with several stakeholders; design, code, and develop full websites for two independent client organizations; manage scope, risk, cost, & quality, as well as requirements analysis, weekly team & client meetings