Professional Experience
2020 - 2023
Systems Engineering and Safety Research Specialist,
Bombardier Aerospace
2019 - 2023
I worked with Bombardier to help develop the Model-Based Systems Engineering framework for the AGILE 4.0 EU Project. I adapted safety assessment techniques for use in the early stages of aircraft design and created a new framework for designing electrified aircraft. I also developed methods to generate safety-related diagrams and charts to help optimize the design. I worked on integrating these models with other design tools and presented the results at technical reviews and conferences in Europe.
MBSE Specialist,
Aircraft Systems Laboratory &
AGILE 4.0 Consortium
I worked as a liaison between the AGILE 4.0 consortium and Bombardier Aerospace to establish requirements for a research aircraft. I implemented requirements engineering practices to support the capture of requirements for a new MBSE framework. I performed and presented thermal analysis results for a UAV design project led by AIRBUS. Additionally, I developed a Python test case to filter potential landing gear braking systems based on safety criteria in a project with DLR (German Aerospace Center) and implemented safety rules within a distributed MDAO workflow to filter feasible designs for the braking system architecture.
2019 - 2024
Researcher,
Aircraft Systems Laboratory,
Concordia University, Montreal
I supervised two master's level projects and two undergraduate research projects over three years, successfully training skilled personnel. I developed tools to assess the weight and performance of hybrid-electric aircraft, which helped with studies on the feasibility and certifiability of electrified aircraft technologies. I also coordinated the MBSE framework and requirements engineering practices for the AGILE 4.0 EU project.
2018
Intern,
Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Germany
I worked on novel propulsion system concepts, developed thermodynamic cycle models for a steam injection concept, and created a method to estimate thermodynamic properties of exhaust.
Education
2019 - 2024
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
I developed a framework and a tool that enables formal safety assessment analyses such as FHA , FTA and qualitative system architecture safety analysis to be performed with limited detail in the aircraft system architecture specification. The framework I developed enabled the evaluation of novel aircraft concepts from a safety perspective and also resulted in early integration of MBSE practices in the aircraft design process.
2016 - 2019
Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering
I developed a framework to build and use MBSE specification models of aircraft system architectures in early design stages. My approach developed a catalog of simplified specification models of aircraft flight control actuators that could be easily instantiated as required to enable early modelling of flight control actuation system architecture using the Capella MBSE tool.
2017
Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering (Exchange Semester)
I completed coursework in aircraft systems and undertook an internship focusing on the assembly and testing of a hybrid rocket engine and the characterization of a fuel preparation. My tasks were focused on using CEA2 to identify combustion chamber properties, predict engine performance and conduct test firings to obtain experimental data.
