I'm a spacecraft operator / mission operations engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I manage satellite constellation, build the radio systems that talk to them, and use those same skills to help find people who are lost.
By day I serve as a primary Flight Operator for Xona Space Systems — supporting mission operations through spacecraft commanding, telemetry monitoring across the ground and space segments, and anomaly response to ensure safe and reliable mission execution.
Outside of that, I'm a 1st Lt with Civil Air Patrol, the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, where I lead air and ground emergency services and disaster relief missions. I also developed Stella UAV, a drone-mounted software-defined radio built to locate emergency beacons from downed aircraft, and advise a team building autonomous planetary rovers.
I'm also pursuing an M.S. in Space Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
What I Work On
- Spacecraft operations — TT&C, real-time commanding, anomaly response, telemetry dashboards
- RF & communications — software-defined radio, link budgets, direction finding, ground stations
- UAV systems — flight test, payload integration, FAA Part 107 remote pilot
- Emergency management — incident command, search and rescue, FEMA ICS