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Los Angeles, CA, US

Pasadena, California, United States

• Conducted trade studies on spacecraft station-keeping, orbital transfers, and propulsion hardware selections, resulting in the generation of Level 1 and Level 2 system requirements for spacecraft propulsion and power.
• Constructed high fidelity MATLAB environment to validate various trajectory planning strategies using Simulink to deliver well organized information flows, aiding in the final presentation and research paper diagrams

Simi Valley, California, United States

• Used SysML to create a BDD of landing gear requirements hierarchy and IBD of subsystem component connections.
• Formulated and carried out drop test procedures for Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successor in accordance with standards set forth by JPL in preparation for program PDR
• Automated end-to-end data processing pipeline with MATLAB resulting in actionable test decisions and more rapid design iteration
• Generated a comprehensive database of over 500 drop test datasets that increased accessibility to all team members by simplifying presentation of raw data and results

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Operational sUAS experience
• Selected for LA's premier reconnaissance unit of 20 soldiers from a pool of over 200 candidates

Pasadena, California, United States

• Constructed a mini-tuft flow visualization apparatus to model aerodynamic regimes of the Entry, Descent, and Landing system for Mars Science Helicopter facilitating over a dozen wind tunnel tests
• Designed and assembled a ballistically launched foldable multirotor with improved launch performance and control stability to develop exploratory and military autonomous vehicles
• Demonstrated through experimentation a novel motion planning method for aerial manipulators via differential flatness resulting in a research paper submission to ICRA 2023
• Characterized through experiment the variability of magnetic hold forces for vertically traversing robot on metallic wall surfaces

Westwood, California, United States

• Used SolidWorks Flow Simulation to determine theoretical max air speed from aircraft geometry and given motor parameters
• Led testing and creation of FoM charts to quantify performance and component to component interactions of four different NACA designs using computational fluid dynamics tools
• Fabricated main wing parts and control surfaces totaling over 30 hours for fly day rehearsals of competition aircraft

Westwood, California, United States

• Organized and delivered weekly lesson plans based on student questions and individual abilities
• Provided feedback to 9 students' final projects which demonstrated object-oriented programming fundamentals and package utilization

Pasadena, California, United States

• Tested functionality of API and over 200 edge cases of company software in preparation for release
• Corrected and revised fifteen pages of program documentation for machine learning and big data analytics programs

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering