About Me

I was born and raised in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2013, I began my undergraduate education at Boston University. Since 2013, I've called Boston and its suburbs home.

Not long after graduating, I found myself fortunate to secure a role as part of the engineering staff at the the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab, a mechanical engineering research group at MIT. At the GEAR Lab, I spent years surrounded by brilliant researchers, engineers, and scientists helping them advance their research and design field pilots. Like those researchers, I was deeply motivated by the opportunity to work on projects which sought to bring tangible, beneficial, global change to irrigation, desalination, prosthetics, and more.

While I was working as a technician, never once did I consider that I'd become a student again, let alone at MIT. In fact, I briefly left MIT to pursue a new teaching role at another local university. But just a few short years later, through a series of fortunate events and with the help of my peers and mentors, I had the opportunity to attend MIT, where I completed my Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in the GEAR Lab (now the GEAR Center). I couldn't have been more fortunate or more grateful for this magical opportunity.

Following my graduation, I began a new role as a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Irradiant Technologies. As part of this bright, motivated team, I am helping to push the boundaries of photonics design and research.