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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Long Beach, California, United States

• Designed and analyzed stringer joiners and its bolting pattern for stiffness continuity between the 2 stages of Terran R• Outlined the manufacturing, integration, and installation plan for the stringer joiners within the context of the rocket’s production• Defined, tested, designed and analyzed the human access port cutout for Terran R integration on NX and Simcenter

Starbase, Tx

• Designed, built, and deployed 2 vehicle pressurization cart trailer (press carts), which pressurize Starship and Booster during all installation, maintenance, operations and checkouts in production and transport• Used Siemens NX and Simcenter to model and design pipe and filter supports and released drawings for filter and pipe supports• Coordinated the deployment of press carts into the Starship and Booster production line and transport to minimize delays • Outlined preventative maintenance plans and schedule for future press cart fleet in engineering maintenance

Austin, Texas, United States

Directly oversaw residents in the Honors Residence Halls, the Quad• Monitored and mentored 60 co-ed residents and kept up with their mental, emotional, and physical well-being• Organized community wide events and boards for over 700 people to promote self-development and fellowship across the Quad• Attending and responding to emergency and non-emergency personal and building situations in the complex

Austin, Texas, United States

Student-led project to send a 30 ft liquid bi-propellant rocket to the Karman Line (100 km)• Leading a team of 18 engineering undergraduate students in the recovery systems subteam, specializing in parachute deployment, recovery avionics hardware/software, baseplate design, drop test planning, and nosecone separation and manufacturing• Coordinated integration between other subteams, and informed admin teams and sponsors of our system with my expertise• Lead the design and CAD of the nosecone separation system, highlighted reliability in mechanical systems and modes of failure • Experimented with composite manufacturing procedures and layup patterns to manufacture our 4 foot tall nosecone• Designed different nosecone molds on various materials to overcome the difficulties of doing conical fiberglass layups• Passed a Preliminary Design Review of nosecone separation system and testing procedures to admins and professional advisors

Tukwila, Washington, United States

• Outlined, designed and conducted test campaign on in-house built satellite adhesion capture mechanism prototype called Nautilus• Built test rig and recorded normal force adhesion experienced by the Nautilus on various space grade materials• Wrote and debugged test and data acquisition code in Python to run on a BeagleBone SBC with other microcontrollers• Designed, prototyped, manufactured, and built support test structure for development of other Nautilus prototypes like vacuum turbopump cradle and frame, test rig mounts for various prototypes, and 3D printer parts.

Tenured professor studying Vertical Lift Aircraft rotary-wing aeroelasticity• Built and soundproofed a test stand for microphones to measure rotor acoustics while testing various rotor blade designs, frequencies, and angles between rotors• Working on MATLAB code to track vortices coming off the edge of rotor blades in successive images

Houston, Texas, United States

Serves customers in the Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas region with reliable API 610 / ISO 13709 pumps• Compiled proposals, data sheets, and budgetary quotes for EPC’s interested in purchasing API 610 pumps for industrial application• Selected and quoted pumps, motors, couplings, seals, and bearings and to match the needs of the customer and end user• Learned pump selection according to pumping fluid, pumping environment and application of the pumps• Re-Programmed the company’s pump pricing program on Excel to streamline workflow and made data easily accessible for all