Summary

I am an aerospace focused engineer working across simulation tooling and analysis. My work centers on making flight predictions more actionable through better modeling, repeatable workflows, and clear outputs.

This page summarizes my background, technical growth, and professional direction.

Experience

Aerodynamics Lead at High Powered Rocketry Club

  • Scope: NASA Student Launch Rocketry competition and internal project rocket development

  • Key actions:

    • Led the Aerodynamics sub team and coordinated closely with the Airbrakes team for the Legacy rocket
    • Ran CFD in Ansys Fluent to quantify drag from airbrake deployment at Mach 0.379
    • Used RocketPy to evaluate center of pressure, center of gravity, and vehicle stability through flight
    • Developed an OpenRocket plugin in Java to simulate the club’s airbrake logic and improve apogee prediction

  • Results:

    • Quantified airbrake drag at Mach 0.379 to support flight performance prediction and control logic development
    • Delivered a simulation workflow for stability and apogee prediction using OpenRocket, RocketPy, and CFD results

Manufacturing Engineering Intern at Ontic

  • Scope: Production readiness and process improvement for transferred Collins Aerospace products using 3P methodology

  • Key actions:

    • Supported transfer of new products into production using 3P manufacturing methodology
    • Brainstormed, diagrammed, and built manufacturing cell layouts to improve throughput
    • Explored implementation of a machine learning vision system to reduce nonconformance and defects
    • Supported project management with data ingest of parts, drawings, and operation sheets for structured access

  • Results:

    • Increased production rates by 33% through improved cell layouts
    • Projected 90% reduction in product waste by reducing defects and nonconformance
    • Projected 50% reduction in inspection budget costs

BEFAST Research Assistant at NC State University

  • Scope: CFD and conjugate heat transfer simulations supporting multiple research projects, including rotating detonation engine work

  • Key actions:

    • Conducted CFD simulations across projects, including conjugate heat transfer CFD for unwrapped rotating detonation engines
    • Applied Ansys Fluent as the primary solver environment for simulation studies and analysis

  • Results:

    • Produced CFD and CHT simulation results to support research direction and design decisions for propulsion related studies

Education

  • BS Aerospace Engineering at NC State University
  • Minor: Mathematics
  • Graduation: May 2026

Development Themes

  • High fidelity CFD and conjugate heat transfer modeling for propulsion systems
  • Simulation tool development for rocketry and flight performance prediction in Java and Python
  • Validation focused workflows that connect CFD results to vehicle level predictions and test planning
  • Systems level aerodynamics understanding including stability, control surfaces, and performance trade studies

Technical and Analytical Growth

  • CFD Aerospike Proposal and Thermal Trade Study + translated thermal-fluids simulation outputs into material and integration decisions.
  • Simulated fluid flow from mach 2 to mach 5 of two different aerospike desigs to quantify heat flux and heat load over the assembly.
  • Further proved material selection for this use case.

Leadership and Collaboration

  • HPRC Aerodynamics Lead + led a club subsystem team and improved integration discipline under competition pressure.
  • Ontic Internship + collaborated across interns, production teams, and leadership while managing a high-visibility project setback.

Communication and Professional Identity

  • Ontic Internship + repeated technical presentations to upper management strengthened clarity and confidence.
  • BEFAST Lab Research + improved research communication by presenting model assumptions, limitations, and credible result boundaries.

Software

  • Simulation workflow tooling
  • Data post-processing and reporting
  • CAD and CFD

Simulation and analysis

  • OpenRocket modeling and simulation workflows
  • Monte Carlo uncertainty studies for dispersion exploration
  • CFD and aerothermal analysis workflows
  • Post processing and reporting automation

Programming

  • Java
  • Python
  • MATLAB

Other

  • Technical communication
  • Team coordination and project ownership
  • Leadership
  • Eletronics Fabrication
  • Additive Manufacturing