Ph.D. Aeronautics & Astronautics - Univ. of Washington (1994)

• Unsteady gas dynamics; deflagrative & detonative combustion research, 2-D & 3-D CFD unsteady/compressible hydrodynamic code development; high pressure combustion experimentation; instrumentation development

M.S. Aerospace Engineering - Univ. of New York at Buffalo (1990)

• Hypersonic flow physics, gas dynamics, advanced conductive & convective heat transfer

B.S. Aerospace Engineering - Univ. of New York at Buffalo (1987)

• Compressible internal and external flows, low speed aerodynamics, aerospace structures

Geminus Technology Development, LLC (GTD) (July 2004 - Present)

• President/Owner

Ramgen Power Systems, Inc. (Jan 2002 - July 2004)

• Technical Director
• Aero Team Leader
• Senior Engineer

Pratt & Whitney, Seattle Aerosciences Center (1994 - 2002)

• PWSAC Chief Engineer
• Program Manager
• Senior Engineer

DynaSim, Inc. (1997 - 1999)

• Owner

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington (1996)

• Turbulent mixing-chemistry interactions in high-intensity, lean, premixed combustion; Micromixing and chemical reaction simulated using turbulent small-scale mixing models such as the Coalescence-Dispersion model and the Interaction by Exchange with the Mean model; Chemical kinetics calculations performed using full methane-air mechanisms as well as reduced mechanisms

Masters Engineering, Cal. St. Polytechnic Univ., Pomona (1991)

• Masters Project: "A Numerical Solution of Bubble Growth within a Droplet"

B.S. Mechanical Engineering - University of Washington (1987)

Geminus Technology Development (2009 - Present)

• Senior Engineer
• Modeling & Simulation

Aerojet (2007-2008)

• Engineering Specialist
• Steady-state and time-accurate, 2-D and 3-D, non-reacting and reacting, and two-phase flow problems (Fluent)
• Perform performance analyses for the company's product and IR&D programs
• Anomaly investigations and development programs, including thermal, structural, and systems design

Pratt and Whitney, Seattle Aerosciences Center (2002 - 2007)

• Staff Engineer
• Provided CFD support (grid generation, CFD simulation, post-processing) for pulse detonation technology design and development. Grid generation packages include Gridgen and ICEM-CFD
• NASA CFD codes (Wind and Vulcan)
• Developed and maintained CFD analysis tools linux and Windows Server 2003 clusters

Ramgen Power Systems (1998 - 2002)

• Senior Engineer
• CFD and combustion analyses support including modeling of the supersonic inlet and nozzle and emissions modeling; CFD tools included TrueGrid, NASA Wind, and Tecplot; Tools included Chemkin-II and LSENS
• Calculated the performance (efficiency and emissions) of the Ramgen engine

ACRI, Inc. (1996 - 1998)

• Senior Engineer
• CFD support (grid generation, CFD simulation, post-processing) to GE Aircraft Engines Combustion Center of Excellence for the GE-90 aircraft engine and the LM-6000 aeroderivative gas-turbine combustor programs.
• CFD tools included GE's Concert 3-D and ACRI's ANSWER CFD codes
• Developed an emissions modeling tool for GE Aircraft Engines