Travis Reeves Email & Phone Number

Elkton, Maryland, United States

Elkton, Maryland, United States

Defense Systems: Propulsion Systems & Controls (PS&C)• Conducted composite resin investigation. Literature review on radiation and thermally cured resins, initiated discussions with Oak Ridge National Labs, completed market research, contacted suppliers, ordered material, and wrote testing plans• Designed vented cartridge loaded motor for 250 lbs of propellant for throat material testing through rapid reload and firing• Redesigned existing nozzle from different program & TVC attachments to connect to existing case for above motor• Wrote new and used existing ballistics tools to model motor chamber pressure and cartridge-case “gap” pressure over time• Altered flight-weight spin motor hardware to include minimally invasive pressure port for test fire• Calculated mass, center of gravity, and moment of inertia of motor over burn time and document results for customer • Wrote test report for customer documenting large gas generator test from test results and project documents • Worked on developing method to predict forces and moment of vectoring supersonic splitline nozzle without use of CFD

Elkton, Maryland, United States

Defense Systems: Propulsion Systems & Controls (PS&C)• Assisted with marking post-test solid rocket motors for dissection and making charring measurements of dissected motors• Worked on redesign of a mounting bracket to move modes out of range of mounted hardware. Made design iterations, completed modal, axisymmetric, and structural Abaqus models, calculated bolt preloads and margins, and presented methodology/results to peer review panel of analysis and product engineers• Developed Python NX Remoting capability to allow remote control of NX application from Python script running outside NX on own time, brought capability to manager, presented the application to interested parties, and wrote how-to doc• Wrote NX tool for use in renaming all components in assembly, turning hours long task into less than a minute• Created Abaqus acoustic modes model and results packet of gas generator at ignition for comparison against case modes• Conducted structural analysis on updated nozzle design and provided result comparison slides for peer review

Herndon, Virginia, United States

Co-op Session 3: My role was to serve as a company wide resource for project leads and other full time engineers to pull from when additional assistance was needed. • Supported investigation into abnormal oscillations of new rocket engine variation’s nozzle extender during flight through model updates and running various simulations such as modal, thermal deflection, and dynamic response along with use of Femap Freebodies to calculate solid element modeled bolt margins• Preformed meshing and structural analysis tasks on 2 phase flow meter to ensure it would survive a space launch environment• Learned Fun3D BandAids for CFD mesh deformation to created examples to strengthen SBIR proposal to US Air Force• Built automated CFD meshing tool using stand alone NASA Refine as an Adaptive Mesh Refiner and Engineering Sketch Pad for use by non-CFD persons in the Fun3D solver • Conducted trade study of void modeling practices in the matrix of 2D Carbon-Carbon materials in Abaqus using both CAD and FEM based approaches• Generated FSI meshes to run in LOCI/CHEM using Pointwise of Mach 5.8 flow to support ATA’s participation in the High Speed Working Group of the Third Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop (AePW3)

San Diego, California, United States

Co-op Session 2: My role was to serve as a company wide resource for project leads and other full time engineers to pull from when additional assistance was needed. • Assisted with analysis of cube satellites and dispenser through new part meshing, mesh updates for sine and random modal testing, running of modal tests, bolt selection, bolt margin calculations, and documentation• Wrote Python web scrapping .EXE for use by SoildWorks designers to automatically price exported Bill of Material components and format generated data with the results of significant time savings over manual pricing• Scripted Python based Femap macro to be utilized with automated meshing script by customer to automate surface geometry clean up along with documentation of macro and updated documentation of other project related macros• Presented desktop wind tunnel designed in 1st session to AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee for design review• Reviewed, built, and 3D printed desktop wind tunnel using variety of tools in machine shop and design studio

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Co-op Session 1: My role was to serve as a company wide resource for project leads and other full time engineers to pull from when additional assistance was needed. • Generated CFD meshes of HALE wings using Pointwise and ran their simulations on NASA’s Fun3D solver• Modified Mach 5 wind tunnel CFD mesh to reflect test article updates in Star-CCM+• Ran rotor blade simulations and created scripts for post processing data to advance development of new CFD solver• Wrote Python script, leveraging multiprocessing, to process 12.6 billion points of data from CFD simulation for further analysis in time efficient manner with limited computing resources• Developed CFD mesh transformation, property calculation, and file conversion script in Python to allow for data exportsfrom simulations to be used in a post processing program despite incompatible element types• Programmed automated Python utility to run 24/7/365 for study involving collection and plotting of company HPC usage• Designed desktop wind tunnel with interchangeable parts and working smoke channels for AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee’s education outreach in middle and high schools

Franklin, Tennessee

Started washing dishes and worked my way to shift manager• Oversaw store operations: opening and closing the store, all cash register procedures, nightly deposits, and employee supervision• Customer service: worked with dissatisfied customers to solve issues and ensure their return sales