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Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
Propulsion Test Engineer — Surge Support
KTEngineering
Liquid rotating detonation engine wet-dress and hot-fire campaign support, instrumentation, telemetry monitoring, and anomaly triage.
Propulsion test
Aerospace / mechanical engineering
Aerospace hardware, space systems, and the research behind them.
I work across propulsion hardware, thermal and fluid analysis, test, verification, and technical software.
01 — OverviewSelected work, research, and writing
01Design & analysisThermal, fluid, structural
02Test & verificationInstrumentation, readiness, evidence
03Research & writingIndependent technical work
02 — Engineering
Propulsion, thermal analysis, and test across the engineering lifecycle.
My work spans propulsion hardware, aeroheating and thermal-load modeling, CFD, instrumentation, test readiness, environmental testing, and verification.
02
May 2024 – Jun 2025
Senior Thermal Engineer / Tool Developer
Russell Technical Consulting Services
Aeroheating and thermal-load modeling, team leadership, CFD meshing, and development of a retrieval-assisted aerospace research tool.
Thermal / CFD
03
Apr 2022 – May 2024
Assembly Integration & Test / CFD Engineer
Lockheed Martin
System-level environmental testing, test planning, requirements verification, purge-system analysis, CFD trade studies, and launch-operations support.
Environmental test
03 — Experience
Engineering work from 2015 to the present.
Propulsion hardware and hot-fire support, aeroheating and thermal analysis, environmental testing, instrumentation, CFD, and verification.
Education
B.S., Aerospace Engineering
University of Alabama in Huntsville · 2019
A.A.S., Applied Technology
J.F. Drake State Technical College · 2015
Technical domains
Aerospace test and verificationThermal and fluid analysisCFD and technical modelingPythonMATLAB / SimulinkLabVIEW
Span
2015–present
Government, defense, and private-sector programs across analysis, test, hardware, and systems engineering.
Employer and customer hardware, facilities, drawings, and controlled technical data are intentionally not published. The visual evidence below comes from independent, public Aero studies.
04 — Software & Tools
Aero is the flagship engineering software project.
I built Aero to carry an engineering question through requirements, first-principles checks, geometry, simulation, and reviewable evidence.
Aero
Turn an engineering question into a reviewable CFD study: requirements, first-principles checks, design comparisons and OpenFOAM evidence.
Supporting experiments
ForgeClaw — A framework for supervised agent execution with explicit authority boundaries, observable tool handoffs, evidence capture, verification, and controlled escalation.
OCR97 — A local document and image-text processing tool for screenshots, scans, forms, and image-based PDFs with adaptive preprocessing, lane selection, uncertainty visibility, and inspectable output.
View the software index Reasoning · Repeatability · Verification
05 — Public engineering evidence
Results that can be inspected, questioned, and reproduced.
The Aero verification bench retains passing and failing cases, numerical checks, solver evidence, and the artifacts behind each disposition.
Reference comparisonComputed checks against known behavior
Numerical evidenceWall-readiness is measured, not assumed
Solver evidenceConservation remains visible with the resultTechnical article
Mastering Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Aerospace Engineering
A practical treatment of the Navier-Stokes foundation, modeling workflow, and aerospace applications of CFD.
Research note
Deciphering the Thunderous Echoes of Rocketry
An examination of rocket-launch acoustics and what measured acoustic environments mean for vehicle, facility, and payload design.
06Personal writing
Long-horizon concepts
Speculative writing, clearly separated from demonstrated engineering work.
Road to Type 2 and Bifrost Drive explore propulsion, energy, space infrastructure, and long-horizon civilization concepts. They are personal, theoretical works—not validated programs or employer-sponsored research.
Read Bifrost Drive01WritingIndependent / personal
02ScopeLong-horizon concepts
03StatusSpeculative / in development
07 — Contact
Interested in the public work? Get in touch.
General, non-sensitive inquiries are welcome. Do not send proprietary, classified, employer-owned, export-controlled, or ITAR-controlled technical data or attachments.
General contact