• Founded UMD’s first dedicated satellite lab to support undergraduate spaceflight missions and payloads• Manage project budgets ($220k), schedules; planned & presented SRR thru CDR design reviews to reviewers• Co-authored scientific proposal for University Nanosat Program (UNP) with Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)• Wrote systems engineering and satellite mission design learning modules & built online spacecraft design library

• Lead cross-disciplinary team of 30 undergraduate and graduate students in the design and assembly of 6U CubeSat evaluating the use of a neuromorphic event sensor as a high-performance, always-on star tracker with SDA applications• Facilitate design, analysis and documentation for all satellite subsystems, including thermals & structures, flight software, power, data, comms, ADCS/GNC, and scientific payload development• Developed 200 high-level mission objectives, payload, system, & subsystem requirements• Created system documentation across SE lifecycle: block diagrams/ICDs, state machine, CONOPS, mission operations plan, & assembly, integration and test (AI&T) procedures• Manage ISO 7 (Class 10,000) clean room for engineering development unit integration

• Facilitate tours, information sessions, and outreach for prospective engineering students• Mentored 15 first-year engineering students in diversity, equity, inclusion skills and community building

• Assist SSL researchers in the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility conducting submersed space environment experiments in robotics & human factors• Training for AAUS Scientific Diver, PADI AOW, and PADI Rescue Certifications

Interdisciplinary honors program with students from engineering, business, and computer science focused on process improvement, system design and quality engineering through semester projects

Oceaneering Aerospace and Defense Technologies - OTECH• Introduced model-based system engineering (MBSE) lifecycle model to an in-production modular subsea ROV program and contributed to MBSE digital twin model for a human-rated submersible• Designed use case, behavior, & logical/physical decomposition diagrams following Object-Oriented SE Method• Built and simulated 200+ branch MBSE-based fault tree for loss of mission reliability analysis for design review