Experience

Virgin Galactic

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

• Flight Control Systems Engineer

  • Oct 2022 - Present



Urbineer Inc

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Controls Engineer

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2022

  - Designed the control system for a unique aircraft configuration using MATLAB and Simulink - Simulated all the phases of flight using MATLAB and Simulink while interfaced for visualization - Used system identification to identify dynamics - Performed linear time invariant analysis to confirm gain and phase margins - Performed trade studies and selected avionics to meet requirements - Used Simulink Embedded Coder to implement flight control laws on autopilot hardware - Diagnosed any software design issues using Simulink for Hardware in the Loop testing Show less



General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

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

• Flight Controls Engineer

  • May 2016 - Jul 2020

  - Flight controls development, analysis and flight testing for the automatic takeoff and landing system using MATLAB- Monte Carlo 6 Degree of Freedom simulation using C, Linux, Python and MATLAB - Flight Controls Subject Matter Expert for flight testing using IADS - Identified flight controls issues during envelope expansion using MATLAB - Provided solutions to flight controls issues identified using a 6DOF simulation- Performed and analyzed structural mode interactions for new aircraft Show less

• System Test and Qualification Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - May 2016

  - Planned and executed system level Hardware in the Loop, Ground and Flight Testing for flight critical components for the family of Predator aircraft. Including the first flight of a new vehicle. - Created system level test plans, test cards and test reports for multiple programs of record. Completed the process with customer approval- Created scripts in MATLAB to automatically review and generate plots for reports that previously was done manually. Saving significant time for artifact generation Show less



AeroVironment

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

• Engineering Intern

  • Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

  - Performed analysis of flight test data and Simulink data to identify dynamic modeling issues for a rotorcraft - Performed analysis of flight test data and Simulink data to identify dynamic modeling issues for a rotorcraft