Experience
SelectedPratt & Whitney — Engine Dynamics & Loads Intern
Building data-driven models correlating aircraft structural characteristics with engine loads; improving reproducibility of NASTRAN fan blade-off analyses; experimentally characterizing squeeze-film damper performance to quantify how operating conditions drive vibration response in rotating machinery.
Hanwha Aerospace USA — Manufacturing Engineering Intern
Owned process flow design for the F135 Engine Core Upgrade rotor: 27 manufacturing, inspection, and cleaning operations; PFMEA database development; fixture and tooling design driving a $100k rate-increase clawback; qualified abrasive flow machining for a new part, improving surface finish while cutting cost 35%.
Albacore Inc. — Propulsion & Systems Engineer
Developed a UUV for the US Navy with a novel powertrain targeting 10× the range of existing models at 4× lower cost. Vehicle-level mechanical integration, subsystem prototyping and test; supported Navy SBIR submissions and credited on a provisional patent filing.
UPenn MEAM — Teaching Assistant, IPD 5010
Graduate machine design and manufacturing: training students on 3-axis mills and CNC lathes, CNC programming, and design for manufacturing.
GRASP Robotics Lab — Research Assistant
Designed a highly articulated robotic arm driven by a single base-mounted motor through a u-joint and bevel-gear transmission; prototyped a mechanical eyeball for an Air Force eye-tracking project achieving 0.3° accuracy at 600°/s.
Precision Machining Laboratory — Lab Assistant
Shop maintenance plus design and CAM guidance for students across mills, lathes, and CNC equipment.
Capabilities
ANSYS Fluent CFD (combustion, species transport, transient) and FEA, MATLAB, Python. Coursework spanning compressible flow & combustion, aerodynamics, turbulence, heat & mass transfer, and machine design.
Siemens NX, SolidWorks (CSWA certified), Onshape, surface modeling, KeyShot. ASME GD&T and tolerance stackup as a design tool, not an afterthought.
CNC milling and turning (MasterCAM), manual machining, injection molding, laser cutting, additive manufacturing, DFM and process planning. Comfortable taking a part from drawing to inspection.
University of Pennsylvania — BSE + MSE, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics; minors in Mathematics and History. 3.92 GPA. Member of ASME and the Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club.
Backpacking (30 countries), scuba (PADI Open Water), karate (sensei), baseball, piano, world history.