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                    <h3 style="color: black;">Head of Technical Projects</h3>
                    <p><strong>Jan 2023 - Present</strong></p>
                    <h4>MAero UIUC (Minorities in Aerospace at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)</h4>
                    <h4>Attempting to build the next generation of Student-led Engineering Projects.</h4>
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                        <li>Planning, advising, and recruiting engineering students for any technical initiatives undertaken by MAero.</li>
                        <li>Leading technical project teams to design/build a High-Altitude Rocket, Sustainable Airplane, and fully 3D-Printed Drone.</li>
                        <li>Spearheading brainstorming sessions to create design options, plan budget, and optimize technical parts lists for projects.</li>
                        <li>Presenting engineering progress and future goals to potential sponsors and advisors to gain monetary & advisory support.</li>
                        <li>Secured $2,500 of funding from Blue Origin in my first semester & organized a research event with 5+ professors.</li>
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                    <h3 style="color: black;">Project Systems Engineer</h3>
                    <p><strong>Aug 2023 - Nov 2023</strong></p>
                    <h4>Department of Defense S.T.E.M. Vertically Landed Rocket Challenge</h4>
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                        <li>Volunteered and assembled a team of engineers, over a month, to represent UIUC at the DoD VLR Challenge.</li>
                        <li>Built a lander that, under free fall, used a solid rocket motor to reorient and land itself from an altitude of 30m.</li>
                        <li>Utilized UIUC’s VLR parts resource & online avionics programming library to optimize our model & simulate landings.</li>
                        <li>Achieved successful burn and recorded avionics data from an unsuccessful landing to improve design in the future.</li>
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                    <h3 style="color: black;">Avionics Team Lead & Avionics Engineer</h3>
                    <p><strong>Mar 2021 - Jun 2021</strong></p>
                    <h4>International Planetary Aerial Systems Challenge, Mars Society South Asia</h4>
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                        <li>Designed a theoretical prototype for an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of carrying out man-assisted missions on Mars.</li>
                        <li>Led the Avionics/GNC sub-team of 14 graduate/undergraduate students to develop all electronics required for the system.</li>
                        <li>Facilitated full team meetings (50+ graduate & undergraduate students), as the youngest sub-system lead, to make sure all sub-systems maintain a good line of communication and minimize technical misunderstandings.</li>
                        <li>Simulated functioning of mission avionics using industry-tested software and reduced avionics weight by 20%.</li>
                        <li>Developed a terrain-hugging navigation system using Martian data from NASA within 2 weeks to minimize risk of crashes.</li>
                        <li>Wrote, edited, and verified the avionics and GNC section of our engineering design report over 3 months with my team.</li>
                        <li>Ranked 4th out of 26 teams internationally in the “International Planetary Aerial Systems Challenge” organized by MSSA.</li>
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