Experience

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  Boeing

  • St Louis, Missouri, United States

  • Senior Thermal Engineer

    • May 2022 - Present
    • St Louis, Missouri, United States

    Lead Thermal Engineer supporting multiple developmental and production programs across both BDS and BCA.

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  Washington University in St. Louis

  • St Louis, Missouri, United States

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • St Louis, Missouri, United States

    Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

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  Vanderbilt University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • NSTRF Fellow at Vanderbilt University

    • Aug 2018 - May 2022

    Microfluidic device fabrication: The use of advance lithography/ soft-lithography techniques to fabricate novel lab-on-a-chip devices with the primary biomedical application being retina research. In recognizing that the degree of polymer cross-linking was directly tied to the etch rate, I was able to increase the rate of successful Retina-on-a-chip device fabrications and was able to provide novel insights into the reactive ion etch (RIE) for various polymer curing scenarios. This work was published in 2019.Micro/nano energy transport: This work, sponsored by NASA through the NSTRF Fellowship, seeks to investigate heat flow through polymer composites systems and to investigate the role of interfaces, often the limiting factor, at the nano-scale. While improving the thermal transport properties of polymer composites has been studied for more than 50 years, interfaces have severely limited the ability of high thermal conductivity fillers to enhance thermal transport in their polymer hosts. Owing to this, much of my research has been in fabricating nanofiber composites through the use of electrospinning. These are then manually placed on a thermal measurement microdevice for categorization. In doing so, I have made some of the first measurements of polymer composites at the nano-scale, and have quantified the role of individual interfaces in limiting thermal transport. Further, this work was applied to the fabrication of high-performance polymer composites. This involved designing, testing, and validating a novel measurement technique which was then used to quantify the thermal transport properties of bulk polymer composites containing silver nanowires.

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

    TA in charge of the wind tunnel and shock tube experiments being run in the senior level energetics laboratory during the fall semester of 2017.

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  Boeing

  • Greater St. Louis Area

  • Stress Engineer

    • Oct 2014 - Aug 2017
    • Greater St. Louis Area

    My primary task was to create and execute analysis plans which propose design improvements and/or repairs to existing air frame components which are then simulated and analyzed using finite element software. The project findings were presented to the customer, reviewed, and then applied to the aircraft.

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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Research Assistant

    • Aug 2012 - May 2014
    • Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

    Study micron- and nano- sized metals combustion using the UIUC shock tube facility. Categorize combustion events using spectroscopy and other optical measuring techniques such as pyrometry and photometry

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  NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  • Huntsville, Alabama Area

  • Opto-Mechanical Engineering Intern

    • May 2012 - Aug 2012
    • Huntsville, Alabama Area

    Aid in development of new modeler for large telescope mirrorsUse Ansys to investigate how changes in the geometry of large telescopemirrors affects the natural frequency and the stiffness Use FEA to study material response in the presence of a temperature gradient