Senior Scientist
September 2009 – Present
System Planning Corporation
Arlington, VA

  • Provides technical assistance to program managers (PM) and the former Office Director of the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  • Supports several, concurrent multidisciplinary efforts spanning key Department of Defense (DoD) research areas such as Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), Thermal Management Technologies (TMT), and micro- and nano-manufacturing
  • Assists PMs through all stages of program development, including the organization of workshops, drafting of Broad Agency Announcements (BAA), serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) during source selection, interfacing directly with government personnel and performers at program reviews, as well as brief and presentation preparation
  • Coordinates and executes an MTO effort to experimentally field test DARPA funded technology on military platforms

Research Assistant
 September 2004 – September 2009
 University of California, Irvine
 Irvine, CA

  • Participated in industrial (Systron Donner Automotive) and government (Naval Surface Warfare Center, NSWC; Office of Naval Research, ONR; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA) funded projects focused on research and development of micromachined inertial sensors
  • Performed lab manager duties which included upgrading and maintaining lab information technology systems as well as equipment and infrastructure upgrades

Research Assistant
 June 2002 – September 2004
 University of Dayton
 Dayton, OH

  • Involved in Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) sponsored project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on the reliability of MEMS RF switches

Undergraduate Student Researcher
May 2001 – May 2002
University of Dayton
Dayton, OH

  • Proposed and experimentally tested methods of altering the morphology of self-assembled silica structures through applied external shear flow and electric fields

Mechanical Engineering Intern
May 2000 – August 2000
Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems
Moraine, OH

  • Aided in maintaining and troubleshooting air conditioning compressor system assembly

Engineering Intern
May 1999 – December 1999
Balke Engineers
Cincinnati, OH

  • Reviewed, updated, and corrected CAD drawings of civil engineering structures
 
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