Lockheed-Martin

Assembly Test and Launch Operations Engineer

• Certified Test Conductor that designed, lead, organized, and conducted all system level environmental dynamic testing of the MAV from self-written and peer reviewed test procedures and detailed test plans.
• Identification of test requirements and the development of test planning for the Assembly, Integration, Test of the Mars Ascent Vehicle Integrated System (MAVIS) and associated requirements tracking
• Executed test procedures for MAVIS while supporting the launch operations and provided support to the program to develop and execute test plans that verified system level program requirements from customer
• Led Independent Reviews, TRR, Tabletops, customer meetings, design reviews and issue resolution, ensuring smooth project execution while meeting PDR and Pre-CDR milestones and goals.
• Led Mechanical Support Equipment design and test fixture design for Environmental testing
• Drew conclusions from results of tests and applied first principles to Test -Like-You-Fly and exemptions

Missile Defense Agency

Aerospace Engineer

• Aerospace Engineer/Missile Defense Analyst for Chief Architecture-CAY & Ground Test Support-DTG
• Script writing in MATLAB and Python including logical framework that outlines hypersonic capabilities.

• Data organization & reduction to identify gaps in blue force capability across all missile defense systems.
• Use of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) tools for Aerothermal Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) as applied to various missile payloads, instrumentation, countermeasures, and associated objects.
• Aerothermal IV&V as applied to Medium and Shortwave Infrared measurements of TPS systems, Rocket/Missile Booster Plume Aerosols, and wakes for hard body discrimination in boost phase of flight.
• Extensive knowledge in SMC-S-016 Testing and Design Requirement standards as they apply to launch vehicles, upper-stage vehicles, and their subsystems and units with a specialty focus on thermal systems.

Teledyne Brown Engineering

Lead System Integration & Test Engineer

• Hypersonic Hot Air Tunnel program testing from feasibility studies to prototype demonstration, definition of system interfaces, system components and subcomponent testing and integration.
• Design subcontractor test plans, organize test execution that follows a data driven test and evaluation master plan that then graduates subsystems to the next technology readiness level (TRL) by setting and tracking milestones whereby procurement and comparison of data follows.
• Verification and validation of calibration standards of sub-contractor test instrumentation data via empirical data. Direct integration of hardware into test facilities, risk assessment, evaluation, & mitigation.
• Delegated tasks, testing design, data analysis and reduction in a dynamic & fast-paced work environment.
• Worked with government customer to assure program met deliverable requirements & expectations.