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About
Founder of Ursa Major and a former SpaceX and Blue Origin propulsion engineer. He founded the company in 2015 to develop and manufacture propulsion systems for space, hypersonics, and defense applications.
Previous roles
- Founder & CEO — Ursa Major
- Propulsion Engineer — Blue Origin
- Propulsion Engineer — SpaceX
Notable work
- Worked on Blue Origin's BE-3 engine and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, Merlin engine, and Merlin Vacuum engine through development, manufacturing, and flight qualification.
- Founded Ursa Major, which became the first American company to fire an oxygen-rich staged-combustion engine; its Hadley engine was flight-qualified and used on multiple hypersonic missions.
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