Greater Seattle Area
Manager of software development team performing research and development of future commercial aircraft technologies in the areas of Autonomy/AI/ML, and Guidance, Navigation, and Control. Projects our team supports include the X-66 transonic truss braced wing demonstrator, Wisk Gen6, 777X, and internal commercial autonomy research programs. Our team develops both onboard flight software as well as infrastructure software to enable efficient deployment while meeting the highest integrity, quality, and safety standards (up to DO-178c DAL A).
Responsible for architecting and leading deployment of new model based system and software development methods and tools to aid in development and certification of safety-critical Flight Control systems and software.
Lead engineer of the Autoflight Control Laws team responsible for development and certification of automatic flight control laws on the Boeing 777X.
Taught lab sections, graded papers/exams, and held office hours/tutoring for large (150 student) introductory statics engineering class
Intern in flight controls during summer months from 2001-2003. 2003: Developed python-based optimal control surface mixing scheme using real-time gradient descent solver. 2002: Performed pitch axis stability and performance analysis on canard controlled concept aircraft. Contributed to development of workflow automation tool. 2001: Compiled and classified airplane accident primary and contributing cause data from multiple databases to help inform Flight Control safety related R&D.