Rapid City, South Dakota, United States
Our Blue Origin Engines, Validation and Test team, at the historic NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center test stand 4670, continue to push the boundaries of engine testing and provide indispensable data to our engine design teams and our final customers.
Our team works with Blue's propulsion component design and development engineers to test BE-7, BE-3 and BE-4 Engines.
Starling Surgical is a medical device company based in Dublin, Ireland. Starling is developing a novel wound closure device that will provide superior results to meticulously performed surgical sutures at the speed and convenience of a skin stapler.
Utilizing additive manufacturing technologies to develop valves and actuators for liquid engine propulsion systems. Working as a component designer with teams of in house metallurgical engineers, to develop selective laser melting and/or direct metal laser sintering. Designing liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen valves with extremely complex flow passages 3D printed from Inconel 718/625, titanium, aluminium, and copper. As a component designer and test engineer, I work through the additive, blue-light scanning and subtractive manufacturing process of additive components, before completing assembly and testing of the final system.
Researched, developed and progressed manufacturing procedure for Direct Metal Laser Sintering process. Finalized procurement of Inconel 625 3-D printed component. Worked through design and manufacturing problems with vendor Morris Technologies. Designed and logistically prepared burst testing of Inconel 625 3-D printed valve. Completed hazard analysis and test procedure. Analyzed data and completed report of data findings. Trained in Liquid Oxygen handling and design of systems. Trained in liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen safety.
Worked with researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to develop testing of future liquid Hydrogen insulation systems. Studied cryogenic propellant storage reports and memorandums to build understanding of tried and tested technologies. Tested a system for cutting and assembling multi-layer insulation blankets in a modular layup design.
Worked in design lab with team of pre and post doctoral researchers developing technologies focused on cardiovascular systems. Reviewed extensive data from the FDA-MAUDE database on TAVR implants and their failure modes. Provided insight into additive manufacturing technologies utilized in medical device prototyping and final assemblies. Carried out research, testing and development of decellularized arterial conduits proprietarily modified to be utilized as coronary artery bypass grafts.