Career Experience

• Interstellar Rapids LLC (November 2024 – Present, Member & CEO)
  • Helping small businesses improve operations and increase efficiency by applying open-source, commercial, and custom software solutions


• Independent Contractor/Freelancer (September 2022 – October 2024)
  • Setting up integrated inventory and accounting systems
  • Creating manufacturing software to track customer orders through various fabrication steps using a Single-Page Application, Node.js back-end, and MongoDB
  • Continuing this work under Interstellar Rapids LLC


• LightSpeed Health (November 2021 – January 2023, Remote Independent Contractor, Software Engineer)
  • Front-end web development using React and JavaScript for Single-Page Applications
  • Android/Mobile-app development using React, Capacitor, and Ionic
  • Back-end REST-API development in Python


• SuperLumin (July 2018 – November 2021, Remote, Software Engineer)
  • Created single-page applications (SPA) for cache-management, administrative-licensing, and sales-systems user interfaces (UI)
  • Programmed REST-API microservices and Socket.IO events
  • Full-stack web development using HTML5 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/ECMAScript), React, Node.js, AngularJS, standardized Web Components, Java, Python, MongoDB, and Redis


• Brigham Young University–Idaho (January 2016 – May 2017, Adjunct Faculty)
  • Instructor for mathematics and mechanical engineering courses. (Please see the Education tab above for a list of courses taught.)


• University of Idaho (September 2016 – December 2016, Adjunct Faculty)
  • Instructor for Principles of Nuclear Engineering (NE 450) course on BYU–Idaho campus


• Keller Associates, Inc. (October 2015 – March 2016, Temporary Contractor)
  • Managed field crew doing measurements and preliminary surveying for City of Rexburg waterline relocation
  • Traffic counting & observation


• Idaho National Laboratory (October 2014 – October 2015, Battelle Energy Alliance, Nuclear Engineer)
  • Modeled nuclear fuel experiments for validation support of INL's MOOSE/BISON Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software development group
  • Participated in the Future Lab/Technology Incubator group to improve employee software usage & efficiency


• Sentient Corporation (April – July 2014, Temporary Contractor)
  • Developed roller/ball bearing analysis software based on bearing mechanics and programmed in Python, HTML5 (HTML, CSS, & JavaScript), and Modelica


• Center for Space Nuclear Research (CSNR) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) (June 2010 – December 2012, Universities Space Research Association (USRA))
  • Nuclear Rocket Engineering – Analytical heat transfer and fluids modeling using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software on INL's High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters to compare flow-channel designs in a Radioisotope Thermal Rocket (RTR)
  • Created Matched Index of Refraction (MIR) experimental apparatus for use in INL's MIR facility to visualize turbulence in Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) engine fuel designs


• Sentient Corporation (February – May 2010, Intern)
  • Programmed bearing-life-prediction software including a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in MATLAB and optimized code in MATLAB/Python to achieve a 94% reduction in execution time. Translated NASA gear-analysis programs from FORTRAN to MATLAB
  • Demonstrated proof-of-concept tests with thermopile-powered MEMS accelerometers for bearing spall-detection sensory systems in a high-temperature oven


• Idaho National Laboratory (Summer 2008, Battelle Energy Alliance, Intern)
  • Haptic Interface for Robotic Arc Welding – Helped advance remote-robotic welding technology through force-feedback joystick systems and user-motion-detection cameras. Designed and manufactured robotic welding and joystick components
  • Collaborated with CAM Works personnel to program post-processors that translate software tool paths to G-Code for CNC mills
  • CAES Energy Scholars – Hybrid-vs-traditional-vehicle mileage comparison & cost analysis