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Alabaster, Al, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

Instrumentation and Controls Specialist within the Integrated Supply Chain manufacturing engineering team supporting the manufacturing and testing of BE-4 and BE-3U rocket engines for ULA-Vulcan and Blue Origin-New Glenn vehicles.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Project Leader for the Sustainable Chemistry group of the Energy and Environment division at Southern Research.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Process engineer at the National Carbon Capture Center in Wilsonville, AL supporting Southern Company and DOE in coal gasification testing and development. • Support customer process design and testing needs in lab and field test environments. • Direct field testing of coal gasification flu gas sampling, coal generator post combustion flue gas sampling, and other various gas and water field tests. • Operation of coal combustor research facility: including the operation of the control system, milling and feeding of coal, and various other aspects to running the facility.• Design test control systems for Class I Division II hazardous environment. • Generate formal proposals and final engineering reports.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Managed materials development and characterization projects for various aerospace and defense customers including NASA, Airforce, Aerojet, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, etc., testing advanced composite materials such as CCs, C-SiCs, SiC-SiCs, C-Phenolics, carbon fibers and tows, MMCs, as well as standard materials such as graphite and metal alloys. • Cultivate close relationships with customers to determine specific testing needs, execute plans, and to communicate final results. • Design, build, and utilize several new test facilities:o Thermal high heating rate test facility used for hypersonic material evaluation.o In-plane biaxial test facility for testing composites in compression-compression and tension-tension.o A modern data acquisition system for comparative rod analysis conductivity testing.o Heat treatment facility capable of cycling through approximately 700 °F to -50 °F.o Solar panel thermal cycle data acquisition system.• Modification of several dated systems to automate control and add data acquisition systems (using NI LabVIEW). • Develop high temperature testing capabilities of modern composite fastener technologies used in hypersonic vehicle assemblies. • Manage several technicians and interface directly with an in-house machine shop for program execution.• Generate formal proposals and final engineering reports.

Tuscaloosa, Al, Us

• Examined the effects of water spray effects on P22 and P91 steel (Thesis material) using thermomechanical fatigue techniques to corroborate the results of the finite element analysis performed. • Instructed Mechanics of Materials Lab that covered all basic test techniques used in evaluation of the mechanical properties of a material. Tests included tension, compression, torsion, beam bending, pressure vessels, column buckling, and combined loading.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Assisted engineers with various programs by reducing and analyzing data for mechanical and thermal tests with Excel and Origin Pro 8, and further assisted with the development of several unique test facilities.• Managed a test program overseeing the execution of a tension creep study from start to finish. • Developed and wrote LabVIEW code for running a low-pressure, high-temp fatigue test. • Designed test specimens and hardware for various tests using 3D modeling software.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Engineering Sciences And Mechanics

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering