haydenh

Experience

• Research engineer Prefer not to say · Full-time Feb 2024 – Present 1 yrs 3 mos Lafayette, LA, United States • Design, fabricate, and install modifications for gasification, pyrolysis, and torrefaction system both pilot and bench scale
  • Maintained and installed instrumentation including Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometers(GC/MS), High
  Pressure Liquid Chromatography(HPLC), and Reverse Osmosis (RO) filters reducing equipment delays by 80%.
  • Maintain faculties including creating temporary solutions to mitigate building renovations impacts normal operations
• Launch Engineer SpaceX | Space Exploration Technologies · Full-time Jan 2023 – Feb 2024 1 yrs 1 mos Cape Canaveral, FL, United States • Site owner responsible for resolving issues with cabin pressure relief, weldment, windows, hatches, displays,
  cameras, and dehumidifier tasked with troubleshooting nonconformities, process optimization, creating and
  maintaining Ground Support Equipment (GSE), and change incorporation.
  • Walked-Down vehicle as final check to verify each section was ready to fly before being closed for launch.
  • Created and modified procedures to implement processing improvements and fixing root cause of non-conformities
  preventing recurring problems and optimising technician efficiency.
  • Modified maintenance requirements to stream line processing time by modifying allowables and optimising timing of
  reworks cutting days off of possessing time.
  • Surge supported for other teams at times of high work load and/or times of need in order to recover lost time.
  • Pre flight tested avionics by commanding vehicle into various states so health and response to imputes can be checked
• Research and Development Intern SSD | Safe Source Direct · Internship May 2021 – Dec 2022 1 yrs 7 mos Lafayette, LA, United States Autonomously preformed systems engineering for robotic arms including component design, system design, part
  fabrication, integration of electronic components, systems testing, and firmware coding saving $30,000 per test.
  • Created drawings of product and worked to get lines running for the first time, leading to FDA approval of product.
  • Created line parts and upgrades that improving guard coverage, reverse engineered portions on lines to create spare
  parts, and rapidly created parts to get line back up, which improved line efficiency, up-time, and safety.
  • Created models of how the lines reacted to changes in there inputs which lead to better tracking of line cause and effect.
• Volunteer CAPE | Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment · Freelance Aug 2018 – Dec 2022 4 yrs 4 mos Lafayette, LA, United States • Managed as Director of Mechanical Corps, Mechanical Engineering Lead Instructor, CAPE 4: Assistant Project
  Manager / Thin Satellite Payload Lead, and LASpace Balloon: Mechanical Lead.
  • Lead of CAPE X ADC Ion Thruster Section.
  • Prototyped Cloudsat 8++ structures and trained on antenna rearm for CAPE 3.
• Undergraduate Research Assistant Energy Institute of Louisiana · Part-time Aug 2018 – Dec 2022 4 yrs 4 mos Lafayette, LA, United States • Maintained and troubleshoot laboratory instrumentation and faculties.
  • Preformed reactor design for NASA project turning wastewater into fuel, oxygen, and food in space.
  • Assisted biomass torrefaction research by operating the test apparatus, handling biohazardous waste, and sample prep.
  • Assisted Fuel Injectors research by preformed literature searches, code reviews, and preformed fuel mix testing.