Autonomy Project Highlight
A public flight demo spanning autonomy, controls, and field-test execution.
View projectMark Agate
Flight controls and autonomy, proven in the field.
I help move aircraft and autonomy work from simulation, bench test, and analysis into real flight programs.
That means control laws, instrumentation, verification plans, flight-test discipline, and the judgment to know what the data is actually saying.
Featured milestone
Skyways long-range offshore cargo drop
A public milestone from an aircraft program where test planning, controls, operations, and execution all had to line up.
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Work
Core work
Flight controls
Control system design, implementation support, instrumentation, and verification for novel aircraft.
Autonomy validation
Test plans and analysis that show whether autonomous behavior holds up outside nominal cases.
Engineering systems
Automation, evaluation harnesses, and documentation systems that make fast work easier to trust.
Projects
Selected public work
NASA Greased Lightning
Flight controls work supporting electric VTOL concepts and transition profiles.
View projectQuadrotor Collision Avoidance
Hardware-in-the-loop validation for autonomous avoidance and multi-agent behavior.
View projectWriting
Current essay
AI Tooling Reflections
I cannot imagine working without AI tools anymore. The level of good work that is created from a single prompt is absolutely amazing. We have been going through a test campaign at work and feeding Fable 5.1 and Astra my reports from the last 3 years, analysis tools, and engineering notes has produced some of the best and most thorough reports I have ever seen. Not only do we cover the tests, the models also look at historical trends and lessons learned that maybe I had forgotten about. This isn’t 10x engineering, this is 100x. Having extensive documentation is allowing the models to grab old data and allow us to not re-learn hard lessons. It is remarkable how institutional knowledge is becoming a thing of the past.
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