About Me

A web-based environment for collaborative engineering of complex hardware.

Conducted trade studies, managed vendor relationships, and wrote qualification testing plans.

• Conducted several trade studies on components Varda would use on its first series of re-entry capsules
• Managed dozens of vendor relationships
• Wrote plans for qualification testing of components

Re-architected system health-monitoring and optimized simulation performance.

• Aided in re-architecting and further implementing vehicle and ground-level system health-monitoring
• Investigated and developed means of optimizing integrated simulation performance
• Authored test harnesses to validate changes

Assisted in NASA collaboration and advanced avionics technologies.

• Assisted in the company's response to a NASA Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity
• Conducted pathfinding work and wrote a high-level memorandum concerning the internal advancement of avionics technologies

Delivered Interface Control Document for Mars Sample Return Mission.

• Delivered the first iterations of the Interface Control Document for the Mars Sample Return Mission's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV)
• Determined and characterized the specifications of the MAV's UHF proximity link with the Mars Relay Network
• Produced extensive memorandums of consensus between systems engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center and JPL, characterizing and ensuring compatibility between the MAV's functional, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and data interfaces
• Characterized the required GNC data for aiding the MAV in orbital rendezvous with the Earth Return Orbiter and for possible post-anomaly trajectory reconstruction

Developed safety-critical software for New Glenn program.

• Developed, tested, and delivered safety-critical embedded software components under the New Glenn program
• Created a prototype for a proprietary safety-critical software interface
• Proposed and developed build tools for automating development processes

Created telemetry subsystem module for Integrated Modeling Environment.

• Created the telemetry subsystem module for the Integrated Modeling Environment (IME), developed in-house by JPL to create a centralized mission formulation and concurrent engineering environment
• Participated in a variety of Team X mission formulation exercises for NASA Discovery (sub-$500m) proposals
• Contributed the astrodynamics and telecoms analysis to a concurrent systems engineering study of a mission to the Ice Giants meant to test the capabilities of the Integrated Modeling Environment

Studied aerospace electronics and worked with digital mapping systems.

• Studied design, manufacturing, and testing methodologies for creating aerospace electronics and avionics
• Worked with the UC-6000 airborne digital mapping system developed by Aerocomputers, used by military and law-enforcement agencies