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Work across systems, controls and research.

Experience supporting ISS payload development, embedded hardware testing and research automation.

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  1. Spacecraft Systems Engineer, TAMU-SPIRIT CapstoneAegis Aerospace / ISS payload program · College Station, TX
    • Maintained 100% milestone compliance for 4 ISS-bound experiments targeting a Sep 2028 SpaceX Dragon launch by managing engineering change requests and NASA compliance tracking through SCR, SRR and PDR design reviews.
    • Reduced thermal design risk for the DASH payload through material-selection trades and thermal analysis across −120 °C to +120 °C LEO cycling.
    • Coordinated quality and configuration documentation across an 8-person engineering team as the program moved toward hardware manufacturing.
  2. Controls & Embedded Systems EngineerBLNC Turtle Robotics · College Station, TX
    • Reduced motor-validation errors by standardizing LabVIEW bench-test procedures and maintaining as-built documentation.
    • Built and stabilized a two-wheeled inverted-pendulum rover using cascaded PID control.
    • Converted ad-hoc motor characterization into repeatable hardware test procedures with recorded conditions and expected results.
  3. Undergraduate Research AssistantTexas A&M ACE Lab · College Station, TX
    • Cut manual analysis time by 40% and accelerated report delivery by 2 days with a Python pipeline processing 5,000+ data points per run.
    • Moved a hand-run analysis workflow toward reproducible regeneration from raw experiment data.

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