Experience

Adranos, Inc.

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

• Director Ballistics Engineering

  • Jan 2023 - Present



Northrop Grumman

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ballistics Group Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

• Staff Aerospace Engineer (Ballistician)

  • Jul 2009 - Feb 2022

  - Model internal rocket motor ballistics using a range of commercial home in-house codes- Perform rocket motor static test data reduction- Track success of large scale production programs using statistical quality control- Complete preliminary rocket motor and missile system optimization- Perform trajectory analysis and optimization of ground launched and air launched missile systems- Miscellaneous code development and maintenance



West Virginia University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Research Assistant

  • Aug 2006 - Aug 2009

  - Employed as a research assistant for Dr. Ismail Celik- Primary research for my dissertation and journal publications focused on the prediction of discretization error in numerical solutions- Performed study supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to predict gas turbine combustor emissions- Performed study in conjunction with Occupational Safety and Health Administration using CFD to predict the collection efficiency of vortex aerosol samplers