Writing and Appearances:

  • CALYX Press Writing Queer Joy Series: “Fantasy and Transformation in Queer Writing.” Writing workshop led (October 28, 2023).

  • Science for the People (Vol 26, no. 1, Autumn 2023): “The Opposite of Complicated: Personal Reflections on the Theory of Autogynephilia”

  • CALYX Press, Fine Art and Literature by Women (Vol 33:2, Summer/Fall 2022): “Be Here, Softly”

  • That’s Not How Science Works, Episode 32 (September 15, 2020): Netflix, Please Give Us TARS and Coop! | Interstellar (2014)

Engineering Work:

  • NuScale Power - Corvallis, OR (December 2024 - Present)

    • Mechanical Engineer - Nuclear Steam Supply System

    • Coming soon!

  • Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Airplane Safety Engineering - Everett, WA (March 2022 - June 2022)

    • Airplane Safety Engineer (Contractor)

    • Developed airplane functional hazard assessment documentation to support amended type certification of the 737-10

    • Left to focus full-time on kiddos and writing

  • Blue Origin, New Glenn Stage 2 Fluid Systems - Kent, WA (May 2019 - June 2021)

    • Fluid Systems Engineer

    • GS2 vent subsystem responsible engineer

    • Conceptual through detailed design work on oxidizer and fuel vent systems, fuel passivation, and continuous vent system

    • Fluid and structural analysis of the above systems

    • Left to move to Corvallis, OR and get to the bottom of this gender business…

  • ABL Space Systems - El Segundo, CA (October 2018 - March 2019)

    • Stage Systems Engineer

    • Initial vehicle sizing and preliminary design work on RS1 stage 2 layout

    • Left to move to Seattle, WA to support wife’s fellowship and follow up on what Blue was working on over the preceding decade

  • Virgin Orbit, Boost Stage Propulsion - Long Beach, CA (June 2015 - October 2018)

    • Propulsion Design and Analysis Engineer

    • Conceptual through detailed design work on LauncherOne boost stage propellant and pressurant management systems (aka vehicle fluid systems). This covered low-pressure propellant feedlines, tank pressurization, vents, propellant fill, vehicle pneumatics, fuel recirculation, and propellant level sense subsystems.

    • Structural analysis of the above systems

    • Heat exchanger conceptual design work and analytical tool development

    • Left to get in near the ground floor on a new startup in El Segundo

  • Boeing Test & Evaluation - Structures Test Lab - Tukwila, WA (January 2013 - May 2015)

    • Test & Evaluation Engineer

    • Design and structural analysis of aircraft structural test support hardware, supporting 787-9, B-1B, and KC-46 programs

    • Directed conduct of flight test calibration tests

    • Left to move to Los Angels, CA to support wife’s residency and get into the space business

  • Internships

    • Boeing Test & Evaluation - Structures Test Lab - Tukwila, WA (Summer 2012)

    • Boeing Commercial Airplanes - Systems Integration - Everett, WA (Summer 2011)

    • Blue Origin - Systems Engineering - Kent, WA (Summer 2009)

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering (Summa cum laude), Texas A&M University - College Station, TX (August 2007 - May 2011)

    • Mathematics minor (1x additional linear algebra course if we’re being honest with ourselves)

  • Post-graduate research, Texas A&M University - College Station, TX (August 2011 - May 2012)

    • Experimentally characterized pseudoelastic properties of shape memory alloys (SMA). This resulted in extensive discussion of using a microwave transformer to get strips of metal very hot.

    • In retrospect maybe should’ve gone to Purdue for grad school after all…

  • Writers’ Ready Room - Corvallis, OR (September 2021 - December 2021)

    • Craft of writing seminar course with C. Lill Ahrens