A Little About ​Myself.

​I am a Composites Subject Matter Expert (SME) with vast expertise in manufacturing, experimental testing, and FEA modeling of textiles, polymer matrix composites, and ceramic matrix composites for space (hypersonics, satellites, launch vehicles), aerospace (military, commercial), armor (personnel, vehicle), and other applications and platforms.

I currently work at Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T)  as the Space and Hot Structures Technology Lead. I am a Boeing Designated Expert (BDE). I additionally focus on technological and organization transformation to continuously accelerate and mainstream innovation, improvement, and productivity to enhance Boeing's competitiveness.

I have previously worked in both Industry and Academia with extensive Government engagement, and have made both seminal and major research contributions to the field of composites.

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Business / Technology

Science / Research

• Government CRAD and Industry IRAD proposals and programs
  
• Customer marketing and engagement, opportunity shaping
• Composites supply chain, Composites Make-Buy
• Composites technology roadmaps and emerging technologies
• Composite material and process qualification and specification
• Business process improvement, Cost reduction, LEAN
• Tool modernization, Process automation
• Accelerating and mainstreaming enterprise-wide innovation
• Data and information capture, Material data analytics
• Knowledge transfer, Mentoring, Training

• Composites manufacturing and experimental characterization
  
• 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