ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER

Whilst spending my youth perpetually absorbed in rudimentary engineering pursuits: countless paper airplane iterations, duct tape-and-cardboard contraptions, simple Arduino projects and electronics kits, etc., the ambition to pursue aerospace engineering didn't crystallize until later. That changed forever at the age of nine. December 2015, Flight 20 of SpaceX's Falcon 9 made history, executing a suicide burn to return its first stage to Earth in a controlled landing. Since that moment, every career decision I've made has been oriented toward one day contributing to projects of similar consequence. The road has been long, and considerable distance remains, but the journey has been sustained by the same ethos propelling the aerospace industry's resurgence in the 21st century: one foot in front of the other.