Experience

Saildrone Inc

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mechanical Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2022 - Present

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Sep 2022



BLUE ORIGIN

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

• Propulsion Engineer

  • Sep 2019 - Aug 2021



FerroPower Technologies Inc.

• Berkeley, CA

• Co-Founder

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Won California Energy Commission award of $150k to design, build and test a modular, highly efficient compressed air energy storage system, ultimately seeking to commercialize the technology for grid scale energy storage • Utilized a novel, patented compressor architecture with an open accumulator to achieve a storage round-trip efficiency greater than 70% • Integrated pressure, temperature, and distance sensors to control valve actuation timing, maximize thermodynamic efficiency, and reduce torque on drivetrain with respect to compression trajectory • Personally machined and fabricated parts, assembled, tested, and debugged system



NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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

• Entry, Descent, and Landing Coop

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  • Aided in the testing and development of the Mars 2020 Rover strengthened parachute and aeroshell, and the Europa Lander mission • Performed tensile testing of parachute bridles to characterize stiffness in Martian atmosphere using Digital Image Correlation, informing the team of the load transferred to the entry vehicle during parachute deployment • Assisted in strength testing of critical structural component for the Mars 2020 entry vehicle • Aided in the testing and development of the Mars 2020 Rover strengthened parachute and aeroshell, and the Europa Lander mission • Performed tensile testing of parachute bridles to characterize stiffness in Martian atmosphere using Digital Image Correlation, informing the team of the load transferred to the entry vehicle during parachute deployment • Assisted in strength testing of critical structural component for the Mars 2020 entry vehicle



Theoretical and Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

• Berkeley, CA

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Assisted in the development of a novel Stirling engine (i.e. a heat engine) that is theoretically more than an order of magnitude more power-dense than a standard Stirling engine • Designed a prototype engine in SolidWorks and personally manufactured engine components in student machine shop using a lathe, mill, and CNC, to experimentally test theory • Measured the actual power output of the novel engine vs. a standard engine • Performed thermal modeling and analysis with MATLAB/Simulink to obtain theoretical results in performance gain • Researched and concluded on the advanced engineering materials essential to fabricating the high-performance engine



Berkeley Formula Racing

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Aerodynamics subsystem member

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2017



University of California, San Francisco

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  • Developed an interactive web application that enables the Department of Radiology insight into how imaging data is stored and managed across the Department’s Picture Archiving and Communication System • Created a “Model-View-Controller” architecture that allows researchers to quickly drill down into large data sets, finds and merges data of interest specified by the user, and instantly presents top-level graphics to provide user a quick understanding of the data • Taught myself JavaScript and web development to complete project