Team Coordinator

• Jan 2022 - Present

The Get Away Special Team is a fully undergraduate-ran research team that develops and sends small satellites to space.As Team Coordinator of the GAS Team, my responsibilities are leading project development, creating and maintaining external relationships, budgeting, fundraising, and general management. The team is currently working on the beginning of our next CubeSat project, which we expect to deliver and launch by 2024.

Mechanical Team Lead

• Dec 2020 - Jan 2022

As Mechanical Team Lead, I was in charge of designing, building, and verifying the Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite (GASPACS) AeroBoom Payload and other physical systems. The AeroBoom is a meter-long inflatable boom that is used as a passive attitude controlling mechanism. Two-axis stabilization is achieved due to aerodynamic drag from the AeroBoom, causing the satellite to stabilize along its velocity vector.Throughout my time as Mechanical Team Lead, I led critical design changes to the AeroBoom Payload, focusing on increasing its reliability and success rate. Quickly iterating and improving building and testing methods led to higher confidence in build quality and larger chances of a successful AeroBoom deployment.GASPACS was deployed from the International Space Station on January 26, 2022. The AeroBoom was successfully deployed shortly after. An image of the deployed AeroBoom was transmitted to the GAS Team ground station later that day, completing the main mission objective of GASPACS. GASPACS reentered 117 days later, marking the end of an enormously successful mission. GASPACS was the first entirely undergraduate CubeSat in the world and also featured the first Raspberry Pi to be used as a main flight computer.

NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

• May 2021 - Aug 2021

Paid Summer 2021 GAS Team Fellowship. Focused on finishing the AeroBoom payload and GASPACS CubeSat.

Mechanical Team Member

• Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

Janitor

• Dec 2017 - Aug 2020

Clean and prepare office and operating rooms for the next workday. Clean and prepare office and operating rooms for the next workday.