Employment History
Block III Chief Engineer
Lockheed Martin
- Official liaison between Development and Operations contracts to support development of new Block III capabilities
- Work is autonomous, guiding the development of future capabilities
- Lead effective DevOps integration effort, filling critical testing role
- Attended demos to steer direction of Agile development teams
- Liaison between contract managements on potential issues. Program POC on new Mission Management (MM) capabilities
- Impact / review program Proposals
- TS/SCI clearance w/ poly
Satellite Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin
- Full Stack Developer of custom tools using JavaScript, HTML, CSS3, SQL, MySQL, Python, PERL, MATLAB, UNIX, LAMP Stack.
- Work is mostly autonomous in scope and direction, self-driven
- Identifying / supporting understaffed teams in testing, troubleshooting, and triaging of new software
- Primary interface with program management and customers
- Project Leader for successful enterprise-scale project, coordinate with external customers at multiple customer and contractor facilities
- Mentored, on-boarded, and trained new members of senior-level team
- Supporting 24/7 operations on a rotating pager, responded to / organized resources to address time-sensitive problems
- Wrote engineering documentation (CONOPS, DPOCs, workarounds, Damage Reports), training teams for new software features
- Travel across the country to support quarterly conferences and tests
- TS/SCI clearance w/ poly
Commissioning Engineer Internship
WSP USA, Boston
- Commissioned HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical systems. Monitored construction sites, generated checklists from manufacturer specs
Teaching Assistant: Physics 1
Colorado School of Mines
- Taught/tutored students, 1:1 and in groups in lab classes. Administered exams, graded papers, and mentored new TAs
Skills
Technical:
Python, PERL, PHP, SQL, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS3, GitLab, SVN, WordPress, Unix, MATLAB, LATEX, Mathematica, SolidWorks, LabVIEW
Professional:
Project Leadership, Risk Management, Public Speaking and Presenting, Effective Communication, Customer Briefings / Interactions
Laboratory:
Vacuum Science / Hardware, Thin Film Deposition, Laser/Optical Systems, Machine Shop Fabrication, Custom Analog/ Digital Circuits, Scintillators, Photovoltaics
Leadership
Enterprise Resource Planning and Scheduling (ERPS)
Project Lead
- 1.5 years leading the delivery / integration effort for the ERPS software as the ERPS Subject Matter Expert (SME)
- Owned/managed a major Enterprise level Risk associated with the delivery. Briefed enterprise Risk Mitigation board
- Coordinate/deconflicted team of involving participants from several enterprise programs with disparate priorities / objectives
- Lead 13 ERPS Enterprise-system tests (with schedule budgeted for 5) to resolve customer concerns over architecture deficiencies
- Awarded Lockheed Martin’s Bronze award for my time spent in this position.
RASCAL
Project Supervisor
- Advisor for 5 RASCAL NASA teams at the Colorado School of Mines under guidance of Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid
- Assisted teams in creating deliverables, set deadlines, and reviewed documentation
Projects
Cal Tracker: Full Stack Custom Tool Development
Lockheed Martin
- Developed web-tool to re-cap a critical outdated program tool, built dozens of custom Chrome GUIs, APIs, and server-side apps
- Built web-app front-end using HTML, JavaScript, and custom CSS, and Perl / JavaScript back end with MySQL
Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting using Zinc Dioxide
Senior Design Project
- Photovoltaic systems. Studied effectiveness of dyes on Aluminum doped Zinc Dioxide (AZO) as a photo-electrochemical agent used in splitting water into gaseous H2 and O2. Focus on in-situ lunar resource processing of propellant and storing solar energy
Lunar Water Reclamation, Processing, and Infrastructure
NASA Project / RASCAL Competition Finalist
- Designed system to reclaim water from lunar regolith. Project-Lead of power subsystems, assisted other project subsystems
Volunteering
Ally for Inclusion (AFI)
Lockheed Martin BRG, Aurora Representative
Young Engineering Professionals (YEP)
Cofounder, Software Internship Lead
Rise Performing Arts (RPA)
Webmaster and Music Instructor
Cherry Creek High School and Elizabeth High School
Marching Band Instructor
Reading Partners
Volunteer Reading Helper for ESL speaking first graders
Out-in-STEM (O-STEM) CSM LGBT Club
Social Media Officer