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Wilmington, DE, US

Springfield, New Jersey, United States

• Maintained all job responsibilities of Design Engineer position in addition to Engineering Group Lead managerial role
• Oversaw a team of six engineers, ensuring they met schedules and had balanced workloads
• Reviewed drawing packages to ensure proper tolerancing and design for manufacturability; released 125+ drawings
• Provided technical guidance for the team including 3D modeling, CFD, EMAG, stress analysis, vibrational environments (30+ Grms), solenoid design, static and dynamic seal design, numerical analysis, fits and clearances.
• Formalized and implemented a firm on-boarding process for new-hires, generating content and hosting training sessions
• Worked in a corporate atmosphere in conjunction with multiple departments to help guide the future path of the company

Springfield, New Jersey

• Employee of the Month across entire company, August 2020
• Invented a bang-bang, solenoid valve for a high-pressure GO2/GH2 ignition system, nurturing the design from conception, through prototype, into production all while meeting customer requirements
• Designed large, cryogenically compatible, passively- and pneumatically- actuated, quick disconnect valves for use with LH2, LNG, and LO2, from initial concept to production, adapting the design to changing system.
• Personally developed seven aerospace valves through the full engineering cycling, taking them from inception to production – including PDR, CDR, and qualification – performing much of the development testing myself
• Coded and verified via testing numerical models, simulating valve functionality within ± 0.5% accuracy
• Conducted and contributed actively and directly to the design reviews (PDRs and CDRs) of 23 unique valves

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

• Continued design progress from Castle Point Rocketry
• Gathered information from prospective customers’ requirements to determine potential market share and company viability
• Coded numerical integrator for rocket altitude based on rocket characteristics accounting for changing forces due to elevation, linear velocity, angular velocity, and initial attitude on ascent, and due to parachute.

Hoboken, New Jersey

• Designed and built liquid-propelled, RP1-LOX, single-stage rocket with goal of being first fully collegiate team to send a rocket to space, 100 km above sea level
• Fundraised over $550,000 from external sponsors for aerospace materials and equipment
• Conducted structural stability and altitude simulations based on rocket characteristics and iterated design from findings
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team to design all aspects of rocket, with corporate sponsors to fund project, and with administration at Stevens to ensure a design project of this magnitude could be accomplished.

Newark, Delaware

• Designed and developed GUI in MATLAB used to quickly generate graphical heatmaps of spray coverage on filter disks to model coverage on plant surfaces
• Utilized two-fluid nozzles to simplify the production of foam for in-furrow insecticide treatment
• Tested offset hydraulic nozzles to reduce destructive interference experienced by flat fan spray geometries
• Fundraised in corporate atmosphere in conjunction with Discovery Sprayer Group, Environmental/ Biological Fate Group, Machine Shop, and Packaging Group

New York, New York

• Designed, constructed, and coded (C++) window-drawing robot, including supporting frame, carriage cross-member, counterweights, and track components through 3-D printing, CNC machining, and manually machining
• Prototyped a negatively pressurized media-blasting cabinet to smooth the surface finish of components, including a recirculating air filtration system with custom accompanying air filtration box
• Designed and constructed a fluidized bed, including the pressurization system, for demonstration of Archimedes’ Principle and fluidization to lab visitors

Woodstown, New Jersey

• Constructed and maintained evaporative cooling wet wall inside greenhouse which evaporates approximately 600 gallons of water per day
• Co-managed pipe depot used to irrigate entire 200-acre farm, assembling irrigation pipe in certain lengths to fit parameters of each field and each crop
• Calculated lengths of pipe necessary to optimize plots of land available to be worked, pressure in irrigation pipe required to irrigate plants based on row length and geographical inconsistencies
• Fundraised in all aspects of crop production: planting, harvesting, packing, delivery and sales

Bachelor’S Degree, Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Senior

Activities and Societies: Fluids Mechanics Teaching Assistant, Stevens Christian Fellowship, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Pi Tau Sigma.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: DuPont Academic League