Graduate Research Assistant, University of Michigan

August 2025 – Current

Graduate Research Assistant, Brigham Young University

May 2023 – August 2025

• Studied additively manufactured trapped-powder dampers in experiments and simulation
• Presented findings at ISMA 2024 (Leuven) and SEM IMAC XLII & XLIII (Orlando)

Teaching Assistant, Brigham Young University

August 2022 – April 2023

• Held office hours to help teach undergraduate and graduate-level dynamic system modeling
• ME EN 335: Dynamic System Modeling and Analysis
• ME EN 534: Dynamics of Mechanical Systems

Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

June 2022 – August 2022

• Investigated a simplified representation of bolted joints in FEA with model updating
• Presented at SEM IMAC XLI (Austin)

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Brigham Young University

August 2022 – April 2023

• Studied neuromorphic nanostrand networks
• Developed GPU-accelerated software for simulating large nonlinear resistor networks
• Worked on a team to redesign and manufacture a pneumatically actuated joint for a soft robot

Programmer, Contracted

February 2016 - May 2022

• Dynamic website development
• Created the server-side and client-side programs and designed the user interface

Volunteer, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Pernambuco, Brazil

October 2017 - October 2019

• Maintained rigorous 60+ hour work weeks
• Led groups of 6 to 30, providing training, support, and supervision