Test Automation Engineer
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
- Ran and managed large-scale testing projects with: first stage landing legs 2.0 | fairing deployment pushers | parachute test instrumentation systems | Dragon capsule astronaut seats
- Developed test matrices adhering to NASA standards and balancing test complexity, cost, and effectiveness
- Designed and analyzed structures, electrical circuits / PCBAs, fluid flow, and thermal systems
- Designed software tools to enable pre and post-test analysis of distributed loads using foam load shoes
- Pre-test: excel calculator estimating load distribution with discrete non-linear spring stiffness approximation
- Post-test: pressure sensitive film paper with a computer vision algorithm to create a pressure
- Wrote an extensive Python library to automatically generate test reports using pass/fail parameters from excel
- Wrote a library of Python helpers to convert and down-sample Nation Instruments data to usable csv/xls
- Automated test stands utilizing Python to generate xml instructions
Engineering Intern / Masters Researcher
NASA Langley Research Center
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- Programmed a DC motor for precise speed/position control using PID and an Arduino for motor I/O
- Built a physical model of a heliogyro solar sail blade and matched natural frequency with design concept
- Created a computer vision application in Python to track targets and capture the model motion
- Performed system identification using Observer/Kalman Identification and transfer function estimation on both the motor and blade model. Used models to design a novel control algorithm