Engineer Design

ZACK RUBIN

*** *. ****** **. *******, GA ***** • 951-***-**** • *****.****@*****.***

OVERVIEW

I am a dedicated and energetic engineer with excellent communication skills, proven to thrive in a difficult environment in which innovation and self-direction are essential.

Highly motivated to gain technical knowledge and apply my past aerospace experience to important and challenging projects.

I desire to be involved with all aspects of large, multi-disciplinary projects including concept, design, test, analysis, and verification.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA - June 2009

B.S. in Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA - May 2008

HONORS & AWARDS

Engineer-in-Training, Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors - June 2008

Harvey Mudd College Engineering Departmental Honors - May 2008

Deans List all semesters and Graduate with Honors, Harvey Mudd College

De Pietro Research Fellowship in Civil Engineering - Dec. 2006-Dec. 2007

J.R. Phillips Award for best development and demonstration of experimental skills and judgment - May 2006

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SpaceX, Pressurized Structures Engineer. Hawthorne, CA. Mar. 2012-Current

Created optimization software used in design of second stage fuel and LOX pressure vessels and flight pressure profile.

Designed and modeled second stage tank domes and interfacing hardware.

Attended company training courses in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, metallic structures, lug design and casting.

SpaceX, Dynamic Environments Engineer. Hawthorne, CA. Aug. 2009-Mar. 2012

Designed and built two separate in-house shock testing facilities in order to promote rapid acceptance and qualification testing of avionics components. Advised on the development of a third, highly advanced facility.

Responsible Engineer of Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg launch pad developments.

Responsible Engineer of Dragon solar arrays and ISS docking hardware development.

Responsible Engineer and Test Director of full scale acoustic testing on both the Dragon capsule and Dragon Trunk to qualify for liftoff and ascent acoustics.

Responsible Engineer of flight separation event predictions, which entailed designing, coding and correlating a 6DOF MATLAB simulation and GUI.

Responsible Environments and Coupled Loads Engineer for Grasshopper Vertical-Take-Off-Vertical-Landing vehicle.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Advanced Deployable Structures Engineer. Pasadena, CA. Jan. 2008-May 2008

Characterized a large prototype mirror segment by aiding in the design, execution and analysis of random vibration and acoustic load tests.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Dragon Trunk acoustic test successfully demonstrated the robustness of a unique, complex system and yielded data considered to be flight representative. As Responsible Environments Engineer of the system and Test Director I was solely responsible for delivering the fully integrated flight hardware to the test house, creating and correlating the SEA model used to derive test loads and predict test results and for all aspects of test instrumentation. NASA observed the full test series and, as the point of contact, I delivered to them the final test report for a $10M milestone under the COTS program. This test series was completed ahead of schedule.

Successfully petitioned to move departments within SpaceX in order to bridge my understanding of aerospace structures to include materials applications, design, static/dynamic analysis and testing.

SpaceX shock testing capability I developed saved the company months of schedule and millions of dollars associated with out-of-house testing facilities.

Designed and presented a unique concept for Falcon Heavy booster separation to CEO Elon Musk and to representatives of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Gained communication skills serving as Dynamics point of contact to the Eastern and Western Air Force Space Wings, Federal Aviation Administration and to NASA.

Wrote and archived 60 technical memoranda, test reports and analyses within the SpaceX corporate document library which remain available for reference.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Team Leader, Los Alamos National Labs Clinic– Aug. 2007-May 2008.

Designed and constructed an integrated magnetic field and gradient coil system with control interface for ultra-low field nuclear magnetic and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems.

Assembled all MRI coils, supporting structure and patient bed onsite at Los Alamos National Labs.

Development of a Practical Health Monitoring Tool for Tracking Stability Loss in Burning Structures (NIST BFRL) – May 2007-Dec. 2007

Lead the development of a real-time stability monitoring index for burning structures that is based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition technique.

Conduct field tests on burning structures in Pomona, CA and Ames, IA.

Design and Conduct Full-Scale Tests on a Concrete Gravity Dam (San Diego County Water Authority) – May 2007-Oct. 2007

Performed ambient and forced vibration tests on crest, foundation, gallery, outlet tower, and joints.

Calculated frequency response functions and dynamic response shapes.

Design and Construct Spillway Access System for San Vicente Dam (San Diego County Water Authority) – May 2007-Oct. 2007

Designed an OSHA compliant safety access system for 275 ft. ogee spillway section.

SKILLS

Technical: Modal analysis, random vibration, shock, linear and non-linear FEM, Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA), Instrumentation and Data Acquisition (DAQ)

Project Management: Led several teams of engineers in both professional and research settings.

Computer: MATLAB, UG/NX, FEMAP, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, VaOne, Mathematica, Microsoft Office Suite

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Self-taught furniture design and construction

rock climbing, mountaineering, camping.

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