Experience

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  Boy scouts of america

  Mar 2012 - Aug 2018

  Eagle scout rank award - 5 eagle palms

  ● Earned the Eagle Scout Rank Award along with 5 Eagle Palms, awards that denote additional degrees of the Eagle Scout rank (collectively representing 25 merit badges earned beyond the required 21 for the rank of Eagle Scout)● Designed and built two 20-ft instructional staging platforms for the Walled Lake Outdoor Education Center high ropes course using Autodesk Inventor (including design meetings and iterative design configurations), over 200 hours of volunteer labor, and multiple organized fundraising campaigns Show less

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  Smart link solutions

  Feb 2017 - Aug 2021

  Digital marketing associate

  ● Developed full-responsive WordPress websites for businesses, small to international, in their pursuit to improve online visibility, professional reputation, and sales● Held the responsibility of organizing and maintaining local SEO campaigns for over 100 businesses, including quarterly reports to show improvement in search rankings, conversion rates, and customer reviews● Participated in various projects to develop skills of programming, local SEO management, copywriting, and digital design Show less

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  Walled lake western high school

  Jan 2018 - May 2018

  Mites engineering fair | 1st place state grand prize
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  Michigan marching & athletic bands

  Aug 2019 - Jan 2024

  Section leader - 2022 michigan drumline

  ● Leads the 48-member Michigan Drumline as Section Leader and Bass Drum Rank Leader during the Winter 2022 Drum Tech season and Fall 2022 athletic season● Earned the Richard B. Drubel Memorial Scholarship ('21) and Raab Family Scholarship ('22) for exemplary leadership and dedication to the ideals of the Michigan Marching Band● Collaborated with the Michigan Cheerleading team to compete in the NCA College Cheerleading Nationals and earn three National Championship titles ('21, '22, '24)

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  Sigma gamma tau at umich

  Apr 2021 - May 2022

  Webmaster & board chair

  ● Initiated as a student in the top 20% of the Aerospace Engineering Class of 2023 and chosen based on leadership and academic excellence● Served as the Sigma Gamma Tau Webmaster for the 2021-2022 academic year and led an initiative to rebuild the SGT website to benefit the aerospace department as a whole

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  Michigan sustainability applications for aerospace vehicle engineering

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2024

  Payload design & delivery engineer

  ● Learned and integrated a systems engineering development/production lifecycle as a part of a comprehensive year-long program in Model-Based Systems Engineering Leadership● Prepared various design reviews as a Payload Design & Delivery engineer for a modular aircraft built for humanitarian aid, search & rescue, and surveillance in Uganda● Innovated and fabricated a payload pin release mechanism to minimize non-axial stress on a linear actuator● Performed trade studies and designed a modular payload system to maximize aircraft utility Show less

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  General atomics aeronautical systems

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  2022 aerospace systems engineer (intern) | aircraft conceptual design & development

  ● Improved special programs related to aircraft conceptual design and development● Developed a comprehensive cost model for a conceptual System-of-Systems to identify sensitive cost drivers and produce estimated costs for different stages of a project life cycle● Delivered a presentation to executives detailing trade studies and methodologies for conceptually designing aircraft that favor both utility and affordability

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  General atomics aeronautical systems

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  2023 aerospace systems engineer (intern) | aircraft conceptual design & development

  ● Developed a dynamic MATLAB software tool suite for parameterizing airfoils and wing structures tailored for an array of robust optimization techniques● Designated and implemented a framework for perturbing airfoils (2D) and wing structures (3D) using adjoint, gradient-based optimization to find much-improved designs with much-reduced time computational complexity● Delivered a presentation to executives and related engineering teams promoting the continuity of digital engineering practices, namely adjoint-state optimization, demonstrating the efficacy of connecting multidisciplinary design optimization with model-based systems engineering Show less

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  General atomics aeronautical systems

  Jun 2024 - now

  Systems engineer (summer intern & incoming full-time) | aircraft conceptual design & development