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Mcgregor, Texas, United States

San Diego, California, United States

Advisory and teaching role within the organization. Taking a step back from official leadership roles, and instead focusing on one-on-one mentoring, providing guidance on design processes, and assisting in kickstarting subprojects.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Mentored 7 motivated underclassmen students in the club and successfully restarted Rocket.

San Diego, California, United States

Acting as the face of the club, the President of Rocket Project is responsible for seeing that the mission statement is adhered to, and for representing the organization when interacting with the community. The President ensures proper communication, handles administrative duties, and manages the project's progression from a high level.Specific.

San Diego, California, United States

In charge of the technical direction and development of the team's various projects and subsystems; leading systems integration, ensuring all GSE and flight designs meet system-level requirements. Overseeing operation during testing, ensuring adherence to procedure and addressing technical anomalies.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Advised internal.

San Diego, California, United States

Responsible for overseeing and managing the fluid systems section members and ensuring the working order of the ground support and on-board systems. Lead and initiated the design process for future systems and supervised the assembly of the physical plumbing.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Performed a root cause investigation of malfunction of.

San Diego, California, United States

Worked on designing, assembling, and maintaining the onboard and GSE fluid systems.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Analyzed the costs versus benefits of offboard and onboard actuation of main propellant valves by modeling the actuator-valve linkages in CAD, resulting in vehicle weight reduction and overall system simplification.- Improved operator.

Alameda, California, United States

Internship working as a propulsion engineering intern. Responsibilities included support tasks for both first stage and upper stage propulsion for Rocket 4.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Designed tooling for subcomponent proof testing of a turbopump assembly. Owned components from concept through release.- Operated small scale tests, post-processed.

Mojave, California, United States

Internship working as a propulsion test intern. Responsibilities primarily supported the refurbishment and return-to-service work on the rocket motor test stand.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Adapted paper procedures for use in a cloud-based management and operation program. Increased traceability and ease of use, enabled live updates and.

San Marcos, California, United States

Internship working as a general engineering intern. Supported active contracts, filling in as a flexible team member who completed a diverse set of tasks to help the company reach deadlines.Specific Accomplishments and Duties:- Designed tooling, supporting apparatus, and operational procedure for casting a large hybrid fuel grain for a hypersonic motor.

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.61 Final Gpa

Research focus: Computational analysis of combustion instability in rocket engines with pintle injectors.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.64 Final Gpa

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi California Xi, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), SDSU Rocket Project.