At Planet Labs, working as Mechanical Design Engineer, I played a key role in designing and building satellite structural components and electronic packaging solutions for the new generation high resolution earth imaging platform Pelican-1 & the hyper-spectral sattelite Tanager-1. This involved prototyping designs such as hinges and heatsinks, flat patterning reflective tape and MLI, building work instructions in a clean room environment, sub assemblies and finally solar array integrated fully assembled satellite ready for pack out to the launch site. In this full cycle spacecraft design environment I leveraged clean sheet design skills, analysis software ability, vinyl cutter software, 3d printing prototyping and integrated vehicle build operations. 

• SOLIDWORKS: 25+ Unique Parts designed and released

• SOLIDWORKS/INTERNAL: 25+ Unique assembly work instructions released

• FEMAP: 5+ Unique FEA models for structural validation

• PROGRAM: 2 Smallsat satellites built & launched