Aerospace engineering student at Kingston University London, on track for a First (89% in first year, 85% in second). In March 2026 our hybrid rocket engine, MAKAW 2, burned for 10 seconds at 130 N peak thrust, and I made its injector plate. I work in SolidWorks and ANSYS. Co-founded Crosswind to give people straight answers about getting into aviation and aerospace.
Crosswind Careers · May 2026 to present
Built the first version of the site as a coded prototype, then rebuilt it in Webflow. I run brand, operations and growth, and write the engineering and careers content.
EE · 2024
Helped customers choose devices and plans in a busy retail store.
Embraer, London City Airport · Apr to Jul 2023
Looked at the commercial case for air taxis in London, modelling fares against operating assumptions. My team presented it to an Embraer assessor, and the work earned an award for commitment and leadership.
Civil Aviation Authority · 2023
Analysed information and worked through policy tasks.
Kingston University London · Sep 2024 to Jul 2027
On track for First Class Honours. Year 2: Aerodynamics, Propulsion and Aircraft Performance; Aerospace Structures, Composite Materials and Vibrations; Computer-Aided Aerospace Engineering Design; Space Technology Design. Year 1: Engineering Mathematics; Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics; Engineering Mechanics and Materials; Engineering Design and Manufacture; Astronautics.
London Design and Engineering UTC · Aug 2022 to Aug 2024
Distinction*, Distinction*, Distinction*. AS-Level Further Mathematics: A. 9 GCSEs including Mathematics (7) and English (7).
Project Manufacturing Engineer, six-person group project at Kingston University · 2026
I made the injector plate: CNC machining, a lathe fix for the sealing step, then fitting the O-ring and test-assembling it into the bulkhead. Every change from the drawing was red-lined. The design was an aluminium showerhead injector with seven 2 mm holes feeding a 200 mm Nylon 6 fuel grain, and I helped with the CAD. We worked from requirements through the preliminary design review and manufacturing readiness review. In the March hot fire combustion was stable and the injector came through intact. Specific impulse was 152 s, and the build cost £91.66 against a £100 budget.
Computer-Aided Aerospace Engineering Design · 2026
CFD: meshed the AG36 aerofoil in ICEM CFD with the first cell sized for y+ = 1, then checked the results against XFoil. FEA: modelled a fuselage and wing box in ANSYS Mechanical, ran a mesh convergence study and a modal analysis, and redesigned it twice.
2025
I led the research and worked on the geometry for an autonomous device that had to fit in a 400 mm cube, hit a 50 x 50 mm wall target and return to a scoring datum, over distances only revealed on the day.
SolidWorks, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, ANSYS Mechanical and Fluent, ICEM CFD, XFoil, Python, FDM additive manufacturing, hand soldering, Microsoft 365
Systems engineering, requirements capture, preliminary design review, verification and validation, design for manufacture, tolerancing, configuration control, hybrid rocket propulsion, aerodynamics, structural and modal analysis, composite materials, thermofluids
APM Project Management Qualification. Full UK driving licence. First aid certified.
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