Experience

Exponent

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Managing Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - Present

• Managing Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - Mar 2020

  Menlo Park, California



NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate student research fellow

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2013

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Structural Health Monitoring Research. “Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarn Strain Sensors for In Situ Structural Health Monitoring and Composite Reinforcement.” Development of strong carbon nanotube yarn strain sensors that can be embedded within composite structures for real-time in-situ health monitoring.



NextGen Aeronautics

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate intern

  • Jun 2008 - Dec 2008

  Danville, Virginia Area Aircraft conceptual design for high altitude, long endurance (HALE) aircraft



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Study abroad research student

  • May 2008 - Jun 2008

  Oxford, United Kingdom Avian Aerodynamics and Biomechanics Research. Research project with Oxford’s Zoology and Mechanical Engineering Departments to investigated avian aerodynamics. Assisted with field testing; flying a Steppe Eagle outfitted with a camera and 6-DOF IMU. Developed knowledgebase to initiate a ‘Bio-Inspired Senior Design’ option in AE Dept. Highly awarded.



NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate intern

  • May 2007 - Aug 2007

  Dryden Research Center, Edwards CA $15k research grant and 11 week internship program to develop neural network (specific to complex structures) that will receive strain input and then outputs deformed shape. Compared findings with closed form and numerical models with less than 0.1% error.