Engineering solutions for launch vehicles and satellites; the Phantom Daytona rocket has been selected by NASA to provide Venture Class Launch Services.

Responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing all activities, projects, and personnel in the mechanical engineering department for launch vehicle and satellite design efforts. Launch Vehicles - complete ground-up rocket structural design and analysis. Pressure vessel propellant tank design with propellant line flow CFD optimization. Axial, sheer, and bending moment loads determination combined with aerodynamics analysis to define structural design requirements. Launch trajectory analysis and vehicle sizing optimization.Satellites - Commercial, Government, and DOD spacecraft missions. Structural design and analysis. Systems engineering, avionics design, spacecraft layout, and controls requirements determination. Power analysis for solar array sizing. Environmental testing and integration.

Lead engineer for launch vehicle layout, structural design, aerodynamic analysis, rocket optimization and launch trajectory simulation. Developing a family of rockets capable of delivering 450kg payloads to orbit, as well as satellite constellations, and their subsystems.

Managing multiple spaceflight electronics design projects – engineering team lead and customer/subcontractor interface. Performing duties including: systems engineering for an integrated spacecraft avionics solution to interface with GN&C, communications, propulsion, and power systems components, manufacturing engineering planning and tracking, environmental test plans, Mechanical design, thermal and structural analysis for small satellites.AZ Space Technologies, LLC. is a company specializing in design and manufacture of instrument and spacecraft avionics, spaceflight software, satellite structures and system design. AZST provides custom avionics solutions based on a modular, compact, and low power form factor. AZST can also provide engineering, design and consulting services for customers with space applications leveraging its decades of direct, hands-on experience on a numerous successful spacecraft programs.

Managing a team of 15 direct reports to design and implement new rotorcraft technologies. Design of rotorcraft airframe, flight controls, avionics, interiors, safety equipment, and weapons systems.

Systems engineering with a focus on new rotorcraft technology development to improve usability and performance of the MD Helicopters single-engine and twin-engine helicopter lines. Collaborating with the FAA as a Certification Engineer to determine system requirements, Project Specific Certification Plans (PSCP), development/certification test plans. Working closely with production and supply chain to ensure the implementation and construction of new aircraft.

Project management/technical lead on multi-unit spaceflight system. Also performing spacecraft structure, layout, and mechanical design/thermal analysis, as well as proposal work, system power and mass analysis, solar array and propulsion system sizing. Other projects also include mechanical design of electronics enclosures for spacecraft avionics units for LEO, GEO, and the International Space Station, in conjunction with the preparation of detailed component drawings for manufacturing and assembly.

Developed maps using elevation data gathered from IKONOS global imagine satellite. GeoEye-1 star tracker testing software.