A Little About ​Myself.

I currently work at RTX's corporate research center as the Associate Director for Business Development focused on DoD customers across a very wide technology spectrum. I previously worked at Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) as the Hypersonics and Space Structures Technology and Integration Lead. I am a US citizen with active security clearance.

Prior to moving into business development, I worked various technical roles in both Industry and Academia with extensive USG/DoD engagement, and have made both seminal and major research contributions to the field of composites. ​I am a Composites SME with expertise in manufacturing, experimental characterization, and FEA modeling of textiles, polymer matrix composites, and ceramic matrix composites for hypersonics, space, aerospace, and armor.

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Business / Technology

Science / Research

• USG and DoD customer engagement, marketing, shaping
• USG and DoD CRAD capture, proposal development
• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML); Microelectronics and Power Electronics; Energy Storage and Management; Electrification and Sustainability; Collaborative Autonomy; Aircraft, Rocket and Space Propulsion; Hypersonics; Quantum; Energetics and Effectors; Directed Energy (DE) and Electromagnetics
• Industry CRAD and IRAD program management
• Business development, Competitive intelligence
• Strategic partnerships, OEM to Small Biz. supplier engagement
• Business process improvement, Cost reduction, LEAN
• Tool modernization, Process automation
• Data and information capture, Material data analytics
• Knowledge transfer, Mentoring, Training
• Composites supply chain, Make-Buy, technology roadmaps, emerging technologies, material and process qualification and specification

• Composites manufacturing and automation
• Experimental characterization of composites
• Prepregging of PMCs and CMCs, 3D weaving of textile preforms
• Composites reuse and recycling
• Composites design, modeling, and analysis
• Composite material allowables and statistical analysis
• Multiscale and probabilistic modeling of composites
• Ballistic impact, thermal, structural, damage behavior of composites
• Textile and composite modeling preprocessing software
• Implicit and explicit finite element analysis
• Supercomputing, scripting, user-defined material modeling

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Education and Certifications

• PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, 2011
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2006
• BE, Mechanical Engineering, Visveswaraiah Technological University (India), 2003
  
  
• Aerospace Project Management, California Institute of Technology, 2021
• Leadership at All Levels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
• Accounting and Finance for the Non-Finance Manager, University of California San Diego, 2020
• Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, University of Southern California, 2019