My passion for space exploration led me to the company most likely to push the envelope: SpaceX. I was privileged to work on dozens of pieces of test equipment for the components group before moving into the automation group, where I was the architect of a fully automated valve testing platform.
SpaceX
As my first project, I set up the Propulsion Research and Development lab, a facility that allowed the rapid qualification of spaceflight components. This included building out facility gas systems, as well as building dozens of pieces of test equipment.
Facility high pressure (10,000 psi) Helium/Nitrogen booster/accumulator system
I designed and built a system for the testing of the entire hydraulic system for the grid fin control actuators.
This helped with qualifying the control systems that allowed us to recover Falcon 9 boosters.
Later on, I moved into developing automated test equipment. This system was designed to automatically qualify valves for the Falcon booster.
I took particular pride in the quality and maintainability of the systems that I designed.
