• Pall Aerospace, New Port Richey, FL. Senior Analysis Engineer.
  Perform linear and non-linear analyses using ANSYS to predict and improve the fatigue life of hydraulic manifolds and valves that Pall manufactures for various commercial and military aircraft applications. Translate to ANSYS complex three-dimensional solid models created from CATIA using CADfix translation software. Produce finite element models from the solid model translations ranging in size up to two million degrees-of-freedom with non-linear material properties. Determine the best-suited auto-frettage pressure, objectively to reduce the maximum fatigue stresses, by testing a series of high pressures on the model that introduce beneficial residual stresses into the model and then run subsequent analyses on the same model to predict the stresses at operating pressure.
  Perform CFD analyses of a Coalescer/HEPA filter and Pressure Swing Adsorber system in the Army's Comanche Helicopter (RAH-66) program. Using translated CATIA solid models in Gambit, Fluent's pre-processor, create axisymmetric and three-dimensional finite volume meshes, set turbulence and compressible flow conditions, and apply pressure and mass flow boundary conditions to the model. Used Fluent to analyze the models and identify detrimental pressure losses in the system and implemented design changes to the model to improve the overall system performance.

• Environmental Tectonics Corp., Southampton, PA. Analytical Engineer.
  ETC is an international company on the leading edge of design and manufacturing of simulated environments that include aircrew training systems, centrifuges, pressure chambers and entertainment systems. In support of the manufacturing of ETC products, my role was to perform static and dynamic analyses of linear and non-linear systems using available software such as ANSYS and Working Model, and make calculated engineering decisions on whether the systems meet appropriate safety codes.

8/98-9/99

• NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. GWU/JIAFS GRSA.
  Assigned to the Computational Modeling and Simulation Branch at NASA as a Graduate Research Scholar Assistant (GRSA) under the supervision of GWU in their JIAFS program. Became involved as part of research project in algorithm development, specifically multi-grid methods to achieve optimal convergence rates for the three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equation .

9/96-8/98

• Villanova University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova, PA.
  Thesis: Flow in a Coupled Manifold: Computational Analysis vs. an Integral Model
  Performed a study of an isothermal flow distribution in coupled manifold systems using a dual approach. First, using a commercial computer code, Fluent, to simulate local velocity and pressure distributions in the system, and secondly, modifying an integral (spatially averaged) model for mean flow and pressure distributions. Objectively to compare the results of the two models to obtain more accurate static pressure regain coefficients employed in the integral model.
  Also an active element in the mechanical engineering labs teaching several material labs to sophomore mechanical and civil engineering students including hardness and torsion; also educating senior mechanical engineers in flow over bluff bodies in a wind tunnel and steady-state heat transfer in a conducting-convecting fin.

5/97-8/98

• Materials Research & Design, Inc., Rosemont, PA. Mechanical Engineer.
  MR&D is a composite materials design company specializing in components for aeronautic and aerospace technology. Duties as an engineer involved computing mechanical and thermal properties of isotropic, anisotropic, and multi-dimensional composite laminates. Used design data to perform a structural finite element analysis of the composite design using ANSYS. Performed conjugate heat transfer analysis using Flotran on such projects as cooling the Linear Aerospike Rocket Nozzle for the Lockheed Martin Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV).

Honors Awarded

• Sigma Xi international scientific research society member.
• Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society member.
• Pi Tau Sigma national mechanical engineering honor society member.
• Graduate Research Scholar Assistantship, The George Washington University, Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences (JIAFS).
• Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantship, Villanova University.
• Cum Laude, Villanova University.
• Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, 1995.
• Dean's List every semester.
• Magna Cum Laude, Bishop Eustace Prep School .