Portfolio
Things I've built, and where I've built them.
I'm an avionics engineer at Stratolaunch, with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Iowa. I like anything that needs a circuit board, from rocket flight computers to keyboards, and I take on freelance PCB design on the side. Away from the bench: video games, gardening, driving, learning Japanese, and keeping freshwater fish and shrimp.
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Stratolaunch
Avionics Engineer I on Talon-A, a reusable hypersonic test vehicle. Avionics design lead on a major vehicle rework, on the avionics console in mission control for 10+ flights, and runway recovery lead for 5+ recoveries.
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RGB LED matrix
A self-contained LED panel with the controller on the board. The 16×16 v0 prototype is built and running; v1 grows it to 32×32 at 4 mm pitch with 20 V USB-PD and a motion sensor for tilt-reactive animations.
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Freelance hardware engineer
A compact consumer wearable, under NDA. I designed the 6-layer PCBA from concept through multiple prototype revisions, shrank the first prototype by over 40% while keeping or improving all of its functionality, and built the symbols and footprints for parts that had none.
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Teaching assistant (4x)
Teaching assistant at the University of Iowa through my last three semesters.
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ispace U.S.
Ten weeks on the Apex 1.0 lunar lander: schematics and layout for two ground support boards, plus early layout on a network interface test card.
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The 2024 version of this site
A three.js Sun, Earth, and Moon as the homepage, with GSAP animation and a long fight with Parcel and Yarn.
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TRACERS research group
Undergraduate computer engineer with the TRACERS research group at the University of Iowa.
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HackUIowa 2023: Dubious Studio
An AI-assisted drawing program built in PyQt6 in 24 hours, with Max and Sirena.
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HPR flight computer
A board that ties Adafruit sensors to a Raspberry Pi Pico to log high-power rocket flights. Its first launch ended nose-first in the dirt when the motor failed.
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SSC Engineering, Inc.
MEPFP electrical intern: electrical design for building systems, over two stints.
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Blender renders
The Earth in Blender, with NASA textures and a procedural starfield colored after the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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Crypto counter
A Raspberry Pi Zero W and two 14-segment displays ticking up my mining earnings in real time.
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Custom mechanical keyboard
A 70% keyboard: PCB in KiCad, plate and anodized aluminum case in Fusion 360.
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