Resume

• 2008

  Master of Science (M.Sc.)

  Astronomy

  Western University

• 2004

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

  Astrophysics

  Western University

  Masters of Arts

  Studying apologetics with a focus on the integration of science and religion. (degree expected 2021)

  Science and Religion

  Biola University

• Space Environment

  Research

  Science

  LaTeX

  Planetary Science

  Python

  Shell Scripting

  Program Management

  Teaching

  Astronomy

  C++

  Data Analysis

  Educational Outreach

  Physics

  Operating Telescopes

  Public Speaking

  Blaauw Erskine

  Rhiannon

  Wheaton College

  Dynetics Technical Services

  Inc.

  Jacobs

  Position was contracted to NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) where I carried on the work described under Dynetics Technical Services

  below

  as well as responded to real time requests for information regarding bright fireball events around continental USA.

  Jacobs

  Meteor Physicist

  Position was contracted to NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office (MEO) where responsibilities centered on understanding and modeling the sporadic and shower meteoroid environments pertaining to spacecraft engineering and operations. \nSample tasks:\n•\tHelped establish and maintain optical meteor detectors; wide-field and all-sky meteor cameras.\n•\tDeveloped programs to analyze data from meteor cameras

  including programs to find automated meteor fluxes.\n•\tMentored interns.\n•\tLed an observation campaign for the May Camelopardalid meteor shower in May 2014. \n•\tPerformed analysis on meteor radar data; found mass distribution indices of minor meteor showers and attempted to find deceleration of very small meteors.\n•\tOperated telescopes from Alabama (locally)

  Mississippi (remotely)

  and New Mexico (remotely)\n•\tRepresented the Meteoroid Environments Office at international and domestic conferences and workshops.\n•\tSupported the Meteoroid Environments Office in public outreach activities such as online meteor chats and events.

  Dynetics Technical Services

  Inc.

  Wheaton College

  Wheaton

  Illinois

  I have taught astronomy

  thermodynamics

  computer programming in MATLAB (with physics applications)

  first-year physics labs

  developed an upper-level programming class in Python

  and ran the college observatory (which holds the largest telescope in the Chicago-area) for one year.

  Assistant Lecturer