Thomas C. Email & Phone Number

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Costa Mesa, California, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• 3+ years of mechanical subassembly and large-scale assembly design and version management for flight-based payloads• Designed, built, instrumented, and characterized a dynamic impact testing facility in collaboration with the Fiber Optic Strain Sensing Lab at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center to study launch vehicle reusability metrics• Researched Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of flight vehicle composite structures using collocated Resistive Strain Gauges (RSGs) and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) to assess FBG implementation in Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs)• Designed and implemented lab-based testing architecture in an outdoor controlled blast testing environment• Performed trade studies and conducted calibration and implementation for piezoelectric and traditional instrumentation• Programmed and operated CNC for flight components, provided insight on machinability and best machining practices• Instructed the undergraduate VADL NASA Student Launch team in all aspects of vehicle manufacturing including carbon fiber layup practices, nose cone design and construction, vehicle recovery hardware selection, and general vehicle assembly

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Responsible engineer for the modular payload housing system - a payload bay designed to house numerous different payloads and support varying vehicle platforms and missions• Developed risk matrices, conducted FMEA and structural analysis• Designed, fabricated, and tested both subscale and full-scale high-powered rocket vehicles with an autonomous imaging and location determination payload• Projected on-the-pad costs and managed a $15,000 budget for the project year

Utica, New York, United States

As a technical sales intern, the coordination and logistics planning of order creation, quality, and fulfillment were managed for multi-million dollar clients. Operating within the realm of data storage and hybrid cloud solutions, this role worked with data center solutions including but not limited to the Cisco ASR series, HPE Primera, 3PAR, GreenLake, and Storage Blades.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Graduate Researcher, Graduate Student Mentor for NASA USLI Competition, AIAA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV).

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Completed freshman year course work at The University at Buffalo - State University of New York

Education record