Aerospace Engineer
Building and operating robotic Solar System explorers
Roles
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rover Planner, Mars 2020
Drive the rover and utilize the main robotic arm to place science instruments on geologically significant science targets
Day in the life from the Washington Post
Deputy Lead, Sampling and Caching, Mars 2020
Drill and process rock core samples for the eventual return to Earth
Lead, Tactical Downlink team
All engineering health analysis for Mars 2020
Delivery of the JPL payload to ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization)
Testing support leading up to launch at ISRO facilities in Bengaluru
Downlink Systems Engineer, Mars 2020
Two years leading the downlink/engineering team operating Perseverance on Mars
Designed and tested all of the downlink engineering analysis software
Coordinated across all subsystem teams to ensure the health and safety of the rover
GitHub Contribution Snapshots at JPL
I don’t have public code repos but below is a flavor of the type and amount of software work I have done
Publications
M2020 VnV for Mission Operations
MSL Wheel Wear
Previous Experience
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Command Controller
Commanding of QuikSCAT, AIM, SORCE, and Kepler missions
Engineering analysis and trending
Software automation tooling in IDL
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder
MS Aerospace Engineering Sciences
BA Astronomy