Work Experience

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Engineering Intern – Dulles, VA – May 2011 to August 2011

Performed systems engineering tasks on the Cygnus space vehicle as part of the COTS/CRS Program.  Evaluated the testing procedures for Cygnus and helped to implement a stronger Test Like You Fly (TLYF) philosophy in the testing of the Cygnus service module.

Purdue University

Graduate Research Assistant – West Lafayette, IN – August 2007 to Present

Developed Fleet Level Environment Evaluation Tool (FLEET) to assess the impact of fleet-level emissions and noise restrictions on US domestic flights through an integer-programming allocation problem focusing on 257 of the busiest airports in the United States.  Currently working on expanding FLEET to handle more international flights, more aircraft, various agents/airlines and measuring new metrics dealing with passengers and airlines. PhD dissertation to explore possible decomposition of large allocation problem.

Grader – West Lafayette, IN – August 2008 to Present

Responsible for creating, solving and grading homework and assessment questions for AAE 550 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization and AAE 551 Design Theory and Methods for Aerospace Systems.

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Engineering Intern – Dulles, VA – May 2006 to August 2006 and May 2007 to August 2007

Principle developer for a software tool using Matlab and STK/Connect that would allow for rapid re-planning of a sequence of burns that will bring a spacecraft from a geosynchronous transfer orbit to a geostationary orbit. Worked to design used interfaced and implementing the targeting algorithms in Matlab and STK/Connect with Astrogator. Modeled multiple-flexible-body systems within Matlab and Simulink for use in future Orbital work and designs.  Featured on Orbital’s Internship page (Link to old page that is still available).

MoRETA Rover

Senior Capstone Design Project – MIT – Cambridge, MA – February 2006 to June 2007

Senior design project spread over three semesters involving the conception, development and construction of a legged and wheeled rover for extreme terrain - MoRETA (Modular Rover for Extreme Terrain Access). Served as one of the lead systems engineers along with developing crucial parts of the operations software and autonomy algorithms. Download MoRETA Final Design Document.

Anzus, Inc.

Apprentice Software Engineer – San Diego, CA – May 2004 to August 2004 and May 2005 to August 2005

Developed and tested newly implemented C++ code from original Matlab code used in the Anzus STONE client, which employs mathematical algorithms for image registration and pattern recognition.  Statistically analyzed real-time data collected by the USS Normandy using Anzus software for accuracy, efficiency and reliability.  Created code used in the preliminary models of the Anzus ROAG FPGA card using Xilinx VHDL tools.