Developed three Android Apps from concept to production deployment on the Google Play store along with all advertising videos and promotional materials.
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Retro style (Gameboy) tile based rendering engine city builder in Java / OpenGL with GPU accelerated user interface and pan, zoom, multi-touch map interaction, and Google Play Billing 4.1 integration with InApp and Subscription purchases.
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Photo editor and accessory visualizer with feature recognition, automatic accessory positioning using machine learning, skin tone editing, makeup editing, effects, and stickers. Built using Google’s ML Kit technology.
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Metronome, flash, and frequency pulse source generator with continuous flashlight; metronomes of sound, light, or vibration; randomized sources of variable distribution functions; doppler strobes with adjustable delay and phase amplitude; and morse code pulses in ITU standard with variable speed.
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Library of Congress Friends' Choice Civics Video Game Challenge - American Cities. An entry for the Library of Congress Friends' Choice Civics Video Game Challenge meant to be a combination of a match-3 game, and a society simulation, such as the Civilization series. The basic match-3 portion features an 8x15 grid, with 8 block subtypes over a range of city attributes (Food, Industry, Health, Coins, Culture, Science, Religion, Civics). The intent is to simulate the development of a city such as Philadelphia (founded ~300 years ago) using match-3 mechanics to qualify for building purchases.
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USDA Proposal, Vertical Farming, partnership with the University of Idaho to implement a low-tech, vertical system for growing food crops while gathering volumetric output, social science, and economic data for the USDA Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agricultural Initiative (UIE). Targeted priorities including identifying and promoting horticultural, social, and economic factors that contribute to successful urban, outdoor vertical growing with applicability to rooftop farms, outdoor vertical production, and green walls.
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Army Proposal - Ground Penetrating Radar, proposal to Army xTechSearch 8 for a shoe based Ground Penetrating Radar that detects buried threats to warfighters such as mines, IEDs, and unexploded ordnance.
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NASA Proposal - Plant Growth in Lunar Regolith, proposal to NASA solicitation "E.9 Space Biology Research Studies" to characterize the effects that exposure to multiple varieties of lunar simulant have on plant biology, physiology, growth, and development for five crops (lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, mizuna, kale) including effects of space-relevant radiation, and altered light spectra.
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NASA Proposal - Antenna Balloons, proposal to NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts for cubesat inflatable satellites.
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NASA Proposal - Cubesat Thrusters, proposal to NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts for cubesats with innovative propulsion.
10/2020- Present
💼 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
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Created and submitted seven proposals for consideration to NIAC on topics such as digital contacts, actuatorless avionics, economical gas gun cargo transport, and variable frame rate DSP.
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Based on the proposals, selected as concept evaluator for further NIAC phases.
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Reviewed and evaluated proposals for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to determine innovation, credibility, eligibility, feasibility, and value to the government.
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Participated in working groups to downselect proposals for funding and determine recipients of $175,000 funding grants.
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Wrote full length reviews as primary reviewer for multiple proposals while also contributing as secondary author and review panelist to numerous further proposals.
8/2020- 10/2021
🤝 Project Hope (Nablus Palestine), Sabbatical
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Simultaneously taught six classes in business, engineering, photography, computer programming, economics, and drawing to students at Project Hope in Nablus, Palestine to classes of between 5-20 students including preparing coursework, lesson plans, daily activities, & learning questions.
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Volunteered in Palestine, Jordan, and the nearby refugee areas (community outreach, repairs, cleaning, beautifying)
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Engaged in solo walk across Northern Africa, Europe, the Middle East, India, Nepal, South America, Central America, and North America.
10/2015- 03/2019
💼 All Points Logistics / NASA
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Program manager for engineering services contract worth approx. $5 million / year. Established policy, objectives, labor / budget estimates, and task priorities for a team of thirty on-site engineers in support of NASA mission at Marshall Space Flight Center (MFSC). Liaised with customers and teammates to negotiate resource allocation, contract goals / objectives, and performance timeframes. Analyzed contract performance, recruited highly skilled workforce of subject matter experts, and developed proposals for future work.
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Board seat on larger umbrella contracts (Engineering, Science and Technical Services [ESTS,NNM05AB50C] and Engineering and Science Services and Skills Augmentation [ESSSA, NNM12AA41C]) for engineering and technical services worth approx. $150,000,000 / year. Provided contract policy guidance; worked with multi-corporate team to establish yearly, monthly and weekly overarching contract objectives; negotiated with teammates for labor, budget, and support efforts; and directly worked integrated onsite with federal customer at NASA MSFC.
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Lead engineer for NASA’s debris analysis team and head of the debris working group for the Space Launch System (SLS). Guided the technical efforts of 10 immediate representatives from SLS elements (Booster, Core, ect..) and linked programs (Ground Systems/KSC, Orion/MPCV), and by extension the work of their associated support teams. Identified, tracked, and mitigated debris risks to the new vehicle by guiding analysis, tests, and redesigns of affected hardware. Out-briefed status and plans to all levels of management including SLS program head and chief engineer for SLS.
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Principal Investigator for supercomputing and analysis tasks for fluid dynamics & acoustics in support of the Space Launch System program worth $5 million / year. Integrated with users, computing administrators, and NASA customers to prioritize investigations, plan usage, administrate resource access, negotiate conflicts, analyze performance, and develop projections for future allocations & work. Coordinated release of results to wider audience and user participation in relevant conferences to distribute results.
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Lead developer and liaison to external contractors for efforts to improve modeling and simulation capabilities of fluid dynamics, debris, and acoustics modeling software for Space Launch System and Space Shuttle support. Guided efforts to research new methods of simulation, to disseminate those methods through the greater scientific community with publications / conferences, and to incorporate those improved methods into production code under constant use on Space Launch System and Space Shuttle programs.
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Authored eight (8) publications for NASA and journals / conferences related to our work at NASA, in addition to four demos at Supercomputing (SC11 and SC12)
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Honored eight times with performance awards including two agency level awards for reduction of real risk to the Space Shuttle vehicle.
09/2007- 10/2014
💼 Forsako Studio
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Founded a small business venture and created a software product to procedurally generate 3D content for use in digital entertainment and mapping applications. Researched requirements of potential market, established software architecture, planned development effort, and synthesized a functional software application to generate procedural landscapes or recreate terrain from known map coordinates in 3D.
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Incorporated level of detail, texture generation, procedural foliage, and Geographic Information Service integration into synthetic 3D environments.
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Developed market survey, financial prospectus, intellectual property outlook, and overall business plan for marketing of application to potential investors.
08/2006- 08/2007
🏫 Georgia Tech Lorraine, France
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Formed analytical models to represent new breeds of electrostatic foam transducers from experimental vibration mode and audio data collection. Set research goals, planned experimental activities, and coordinated activities of undergraduate associates to achieve goals.
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Developed and performed experimental tests of electrostatic materials to characterize response and anchor analytic work.
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Coordinated international delivery and purchasing of both research equipment and supplies for creation of an acoustics research laboratory.
08/2004- 08/2006
💼 Manning Applied Technologies
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Managed teams of up to five to fulfill project goals across fields of electronics, software, production, quality testing, and advertising.
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Led effort which developed successful prototype of high precision bio-agent detection system for US military utilizing standoff infrared spectrometry and integrated digital signal processing.
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Created polymer modulation and testing system for use in thermal extremes which incorporated adaptive temperature control, sample modulation, and tensioning. Collaborated with the Department of Defense, industry customers, and external vendors to establish product goals, assure final deliverable quality, and generate lead time projections.
