St Louis, Missouri, United States
Aerospace engineer specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Currently employed at The Boeing Company as a CFD engineer developing and applying CFD tools. Lead developer of the Boeing-developed EPIC mesh adaptation tool. Specialties: CFD development for aerospace design. Adaptive mesh generation.
For my entire tenure at The Boeing Company I was a member of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Group in Saint Louis, MO. Early in my career I applied our CFD process to support vehicle programs, transitioning to software development after my Ph.D. specializing in mesh generation and adaptation.
Research assistant under the direction of Dr. David Darmofal. Directed research toward doctorate and member of the ProjectX development team.
Teaching assistant for propulsion course (Spring '02): grader. Research assistant (Summer '02): directed research toward thesis Teaching Assistant for Gas Dynamics Lab(Fall '02): lab T.A. Writing lab curriculum and redesigning lab to include an introduction to CFD. Conducting lab experiments. Research Assistant (Spring '03): directed research toward thesis.
Thermal Systems Division: Worked individual projects, including planning and carrying out testing of environment control equipment and having radiator panels hyper-velocity impact tested. X-38 Project Office: Mechanical integration of the X-38 V-201 orbital test vehicle, especially planning wire routing inside the vehicle. My third tour was in both the Structures Division and the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division. I started in the Structures Division where I became more familiar with design processes by placing an EVA handhold on space flight hardware. I then moved to the Applied Aeroscience and CFD Branch, where I designed an interpolation tool for CFD solution analysis and comparison with test flight, wind tunnel, and other CFD solution data. I then used the tool to compare and analyze pressure port data from an atmospheric drop test to CFD solutions.