Blue Origin

Since March 2022 I have worked at Blue Origin in Kent. Washington. As a member of the New Glenn second stage propellant systems team, I have mainly worked as a fluid systems engineer for the recirculation system.

In this role, I have designed and analyzed tubing, bracketry, and other fluids components used on vehicle. I have also worked as the Responsible Engineer for the reicirculation system valves, working closely with vendors to develop and qualify valves for use in LH2 and LO2 service as well as working to integrate those valves onto the vehicle.

Research

I worked from 2017 through 2021 with Dr. Ingmar Schoegl in the Microcombustion lab at LSU. During this time I worked on improvements to a Digital Focusing Color Schlieren system, primarily on new, frequency-space based methods of automatic calibration.

Beginning Spring 2021, this research expanded to include using multiple cameras to recreate 3D data from a flow field.

I have also developed Python and C++ libraries to interface with and automate the use of laboratory imaging equipment.

Internship Experience - Nuclear Industry

For two summers, I worked as an engineering intern in the nuclear power industry.

At South Texas Project, I worked to incorporate component inspection data into a predictive model of flow accelerated corrosion within the plant’s secondary loop. This data was used to monitor and predict wall thinning withing these components.

At True North Consulting, I adapted existing thermal performance tools to a new customer using historical performance data to create correction curves used when calculating a plant’s predicted generation. This also allows plants to determine when equipment is having an adverse effect on generation.