Experience

  1. Founder, CEO

    SeaWing, LLC
    • Building state-of-the-art uncrewed surface vessels for academic research, defense (ISR), and commercial offshore applications.

  2. Visiting Oceanography Faculty

    Sea Education Association
    • Developed lecture materials and planned field trips for a college-level introductory short course in oceanography.
    • 120 hours of teaching experience as the lead instructor.

  3. Marine Engineer

    Virgin Hyperloop One
    • Led the marine research program.
    • Developed regional ocean models driven by wind, wave, and tidal data, and used Weibull distributions to estimate extreme event recurrence intervals.
    • Performed structural finite element analysis for various subassemblies.
    • Formulated requirements and conducted the initial design of a tubular thermal expansion joint.
    • Developed and field-validated a non-linear heat transfer model for a prototype hyperloop system located outside Las Vegas, NV.

  4. Independent Contractor

    United States Geological Survey (Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center)
    • Assisted in the development of a sediment transport model that integrates longshore and cross-shore processes to predict long-term shoreline response to climate change.

  5. Environmental Engineer

    Naval Information Warfare Center - Pacific
    • Assisted in the development of handheld contaminant sensor for Navy divers.
    • Performed CFD simulations of various sediment transport processes.
    • Participated in the deployment and retrieval of a benthic microbial fuel cell.

Education

  1. PhD Mechanical Engineering

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    GPA: 4.8/5

    Doctoral thesis describing how to properly design (and test) a rigid wingsail for autonomous sailing. Supervised by Dr. Peter Traykovski and Prof. Henrik Schmidt. Contributions were published in both Springer and IEEE journals.

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  2. MS Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Stanford University

    GPA: 3.74/4.0

    • Hydrodynamics
    • Numerical Methods
    • Product Design

  3. BSc Environmental Engineering

    University of California, San Diego

    GPA: 3.45/4.0

    • Major: Environmental Engineering
    • Minor: Political Science
Technical Skills
Awards
Object-Oriented Programming in R
datacamp ∙ January 2023
Object-oriented programming (OOP) lets you specify relationships between functions and the objects that they can act on, helping you manage complexity in your code. This is an intermediate level course, providing an introduction to OOP, using the S3 and R6 systems. S3 is a great day-to-day R programming tool that simplifies some of the functions that you write. R6 is especially useful for industry-specific analyses, working with web APIs, and building GUIs.
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