Capella Space is an American space tech company with data and satellite solutions for government and commercial use. A pioneer in the Earth observation industry, Capella is the first U.S. company with a constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, delivering the best quality, highest resolution SAR imagery commercially available. Capella provides easy access to frequent and timely information affecting dozens of industries worldwide, including defense and intelligence, supply chain, insurance, maritime and others. Its market-leading SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled data infrastructure to quickly deliver reliable global insights that sharpen our understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. Headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional locations in Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C., Capella’s satellites are operated, designed and manufactured in the USA. Learn more at www.capellaspace.com

Activities and Societies: National Society of Black Engineers, Nu Delta Fraternity, Ultimate Frisbee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sheldon High School

Software engineer working on constellation tasking and scheduling.

Software Engineer

• Conducted independent research on the REXIS instrument aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft.
• Drafted test plan and test procedures for evaluating the performance of the instrument’s optical blocking filter (OBF) in order to mature it to NASA’s TRL 6 designation.

Systems Integration and Test Researcher

• Developed a web application to assist test engineers with record keeping, in place of traditional paper records.
• Drafted a requirements document for the application from test engineer input.
• Implemented using the ASP.NET framework with a SQL backend.

System Integration and Test Intern

• Developed features for and bug-tested a JPL proprietary Model Based Systems Engineering toolkit.
• Modeled the instrument subsystem of a probe-mission to Saturn using the toolkit.
• Implemented mass-rollups and state-representation into the system architecture.

Systems Engineering Intern

- Developed a Python-based graphical user interface (GUI) for use in an investigation of human performance.
- GUI enables users to create, load, and save obstacles, review experimental data, and to present performance summaries of subjects.