Professional

Work history

• 2024 – present

  Systems Engineer

  Northrop Grumman

  System safety engineering on the Sentinel (GBSD) program. Hazard analyses: preliminary (PHA), subsystem (SSHA), system (SHA), functional (FHA), health (HHA), and operating and support (O&SHA). Safety documentation to MIL-STD-882E, AFSPCMAN 91-710 Vol. 1–7, RCC 319-19 and 324-11, and 29 CFR (OSHA).

  • BRAVO award: system safety engineering
  • BRAVO award: EED / HERO
• Earlier

  Lead Apple Hardware Technician

  Expercom (Apple Authorized Service Provider)

  Lead technician for repair and data recovery on Apple devices, Apple certified for Mac and iOS. Evaluated failing drives, recovered files, and coordinated clean-room recoveries. Trained junior technicians and handled customer communication.

Education

• In progress

  M.S. Applied Physics

  Johns Hopkins University

  Coursework in materials science, oceanography, chaos theory, particle physics, and theoretical physics.

• B.S.

  Physics

  University of Utah

  Quantum mechanics, particle physics, mathematical methods, and lab work.

• B.S.

  Electrical Engineering

  University of Utah

  Electronics and computer design, signal analysis, electromagnetics, and circuits.

Engineering projects

Kits from Mark Rober's CrunchLabs Build Box, built and taken apart to study the principle behind each one.