I'm an engineer with a passion for developing scientific software applications to help solve some of the most pressing problems facing our world. My particular interest lies in applied optimization and towards this end I am pursuing a graduate degree, part-time, with a focus on Computational Engineering. I have a broad technical background developed through work in both academic and industrial organizations, providing both research-oriented and commercially-focused products and services. As such, I am extremely comfortable communicating within a variety of environments and have a proven ability to adapt to changing responsibilities based on evolving project requirements.
Developing the next-generation orbit propagator for controls design and
Vehicle Hardware Lab simulation as well as the on-board flight software
orbit estimation Kalman filter.
Collaboratively building a Git submodule-based simulation architecture
to enable code reuse and standardization for the Mathworks environment.
Devised a package management system to automatically check and load necessary
library dependencies for simulation submodules.
Implementing Mathworks-based autocode generation toolchain to help streamline
flight software build efforts.
Produced new, Jupyter and Julia-based mission analysis tools for the NASA
Restore-Lmission to help guide hardware subsystems decision-making
which included a sensor placement optimization and visualization tool.
Expanded verification and validation test routines for Chebyshev-based
ephemeris approximation code.
Founding member of the Guidance, Navigation and Control Software Development
Working Group which formed consensus-based guidelines for code commonly
utilized by multiple departments.
Designed and conducted critical orbit-raising maneuvers as the Mission
Planner for more than five geosynchronous communication programs.
Developed training for new Orbit Dynamics Group hires in using the heritage
mission analysis tool set.
Research and Development Engineer
2008-06 — 2012-04
Helped Flight Dynamics team replace functions developed in-house with
industry standard JPL SPICE toolkit
functions.
Contributed to the Deep Space Network Scheduling Advisory Group and Mid-range
Management Group to prepare for deployment of next-generation scheduling
process to all missions utilitzing the DSN.
Scheduled communication support for ARTEMIS mission
including critical maneuvers such as Lunar Orbit Insertion.
Participated in the integration and test activities for the NUSTAR mission.