Work

This page briefly summarizes my professional work experience. You can also visit my LinkedIn for more information.

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• Worked in the Engineering Systems Lab at MIT, studying systems engineering and design optimization.
• Developed a novel systems engineering methodology for model-informed verification planning.

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• Worked in Group 314C, System Verification \& Validation for a cumulative period of 11 months
• Developed an uncertainty-based engineering method for planning verification & validation activities and implemented it at the high level on JPL spaceflight mission case studies
• Presented research findings to researchers across the uncertainty quantification technical community at JPL

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• Worked in the Space Systems Laboratory as a member of the MIT Kavli Institute’s Astronomical Instrumentation Team.
• Providing systems engineering and verification for the Large Lensley Array Magellan Spectrograph (LLAMAS) project, a wide-field spectroscopy instrument being developed for the Giant Magellan Telescope.
• Performed laboratory verification of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) for the LLAMAS instrument.

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• Served as Technical Lead for a NASA project to create a simulation testbed to provide independent verification and validation (IV&V) for lunar terrain relative navigation (TRN) technologies, including hardware and software components, for commercial lunar landing missions.
• Worked with a team to provide software IV&V for crewed commercial spaceflight. Focused on developing test protocols for ground support software.
• Developed specialized physics modeling software in support of development of crew-training simulation architecture for the EM-1 and EM-2 missions of NASA’s Orion project.
• Developed a Trick simulation to provide IV&V for flight software of a commercial lunar lander.
• Participated in a work training course to learn about flight software development with the core Flight Software (cFS) embedded flight software system.

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• Contributed to onboard software for the portable life support system of a next-generation spacesuit.
• Tested and integrated software on flight hardware in a laboratory setting at Johnson Space Center.

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• Worked with Dr. Jennifer Marshall to measure metallicity for M-dwarf stars.
• Practiced astrophysical research methods, including reading and writing research documents, and learned how to access and analyze astronomy science data
• Presented the poster “Measuring M-dwarf Metallicity through Spectroscopy of Proper Motion Binaries at Optical Wavelengths” at the Joint Fall 2017 Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS

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• Learned the fundamentals and hands-on application of electrical engineering, computer programming in C++, space-grade avionics, and safety analysis
• Built prototypes of electrical systems
• Designed and documented a vibration testing procedure for space flight integration
• Designed and programmed space hardware to be integrated into and flown on such environments as the Blue Origins New Shepard sub-orbital spacecraft and the International Space Station
• Assembled flight hardware in a controlled environment
• Researched space applications of optical physics

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• Ensured the safety and satisfaction of guests in a hands-on and independent work environment
• Basically just worked there for half a summer after high school
• Most of the job involved digging around in ice chests with my bare hands to find knives and liquor
• And I would say “Sir, you can’t bring all these knives and liquor in here,” and people would get mad at me because no one likes 18-year-olds telling them what to do
• But at least I’m still pretty good at helping people putting on those wristbands, the little waterpark wristbands that you have to snap into place that usually seem too tight or too loose but I can make them fit well
• My dominant sense memory of this job is eating chicken strips in the employee cafeteria while the indescribable smell of waterpark clung to everyone and everything
• Not a bad job