About Me

Born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I graduated from Drexel University with a B.S in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in aerospace.

Throughout the course of my 5-year program at Drexel, I completed three six-month co-ops. During my first co-op, I worked at Boeing as a structural engineer. My main body of work consisted of performing stress analysis on 787 Dreamliner components and designing custom shop aids for use in the CH-47 Chinook factory. My experience over the six months at Boeing reinforced my interest in aerospace and gave me valuable experience in working in a large company environment with numerous regulatory obstacles to navigate.

Wanting to have a more hands-on experience, I accepted a position at OPEX Corporation as a mechanical engineer for my second co-op. During my time at OPEX, I specialized in designing sheet metal, machined, and 3D printed parts for a new warehouse scanning and sorting system. I excelled in this role by leveraging my creative, hands-on, can-do attitude to solve a multitude of prototype design and assembly challenges. While at OPEX, I also conducted several different types of tests on existing sorting and scanning systems, including acoustic measurement and belt tracking tests. Using my mechanical aptitude, I identified inefficiencies in the systems then designed and implemented solutions to improve performance.

Entering my third and final co-op, I wanted to challenge myself and work in a field I had no prior experience in, which led me to accepted a position as an R&D Engineer at DePuy Synthes. DePuy is a Johnson & Johnson family company that specializes in orthopedic medical devices. While there, the majority of my efforts were focused on designing a metal implant in Creo which aided the fixation of femoral fractures. As every demographic of humans has a slightly different bone geometry, I was challenged to find a way to reduce the number of unique devices, while still ensuring the device fit well onto the patients bone. The specifics about this project can be further seen on the "Engineering Projects" page of this site. To be an effective in my work at DePuy, I learned about everything from human anatomy, regulatory considerations, operating room procedure, and many more topics. In a way, this taught me how to learn a new field, acquire a large amount of new knowledge quickly, and overall be more agile.

At the beginning of my senior year at Drexel, I formed a high functioning team of mechanical engineers to complete Senior Design, Drexel's version of a capstone project. All team members had a passion for aerospace and had co-op experience at companies such as SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, among others. Our team identified small satellite operators' need for propulsion capabilities in orbit, and we set out to develop a solution using a hybrid rocket. The team successfully secured over $4,800 in funding from the NASA Pennsylvania Space Consortium and the Drexel MEM Department. My primary responsibility on the team was to research, design, analyze, and build a test stand and ground support equipment which would enable us to test the rocket engine safely, while also ensuring accurate data collection. More details about this project, including renderings and other pictures can be found in the "Engineering Projects" page of this site.

Graduating college during the middle of a global pandemic has brought many challenges and finding the position that fits right for me is more important than ever. I am eager to work in for a company that allows me to exercise my engineering knowledge, channel my creativity, utilize my love for design, and lean on my passion for technology. I am interested in positions such as mechanical engineer, manufacturing engineer, product design engineer, aerospace engineer, and many others.