Wesley Kron Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Leading the development of a cold gas thruster system to control one rotational axis of a sounding rocket.
• Coordinate controls system validation and testing with Ballooning, Flight Systems, Avionics, and Launch Structure teams.
• Successfully demonstrated one degree of freedom control capability during a suspended test.
• Managing a team budget of $1,600 to purchase control system hardware.

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Used a Non-linear simple Lyapunov Controller to calculate Body-Fixed torque necessary to stabilize the Icarus rocket.
• Participated in two control system integration tests.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

• Conducted desktop analysis and lab testing for functional hazard analysis using dynamic aircraft simulation tools.
• Collected and processed over 100,000 hours of flight data to determine the probability of being in an upset flight envelope.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

• Created specific repairs to parts and assemblies using CATIA and SmarTeam to return model fit and function.
• Coordinated with Stress, Materials & Processes, Aerodynamics and Manufacturing departments to ensure repair aligned with aircraft certification and build schedule.
• Updated a trim plotter app using python tool for data analysis crucial to obtaining certification of production aircraft.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

• Wrote a technical write up and developed a visualization tool in MATLAB to outline recent hardware and software updates to primary flight control surfaces.
• Invented a MATLAB Script to analyze 1.5 million flight tracks from FlightAware.
• Built 2 python scripts to operate in testing to validate updates to the Central Maintenance System and Flight Controls data sourcing. Reduced time spent to validate data by 90% for a large test case (16 hours to a.

Fair Oaks, Virginia, United States

• Used leadership skills to create a safe environment for patrons, staff, and supervisors
• Began to develop future leaders on staff by giving more responsibility and guidance to develop future managers
• Created a weekly schedule and communicated important announcements to staff
• Managed a staff of 30 total guards – Worked with 6-7 at a time
• Promoted from assistant manager to head manager after Summer 2021

• Created a data management tool using React JS that would store and present data from 50 branches of United Ways in Indiana
• Used the Engineering Design Process to create solutions based on stakeholder needs
• Briefed the CEO and Indiana United Ways Board on our product
• Completed professional design reviews in front of industry professionals
• Coordinated meetings with Professors, students, and Industry partners