Logan Hicks

- Led the structures and mechanism engineering team responsible for Starship lunar landing legs, solar arrays, and other large mechanisms. Responsible for development of primary/secondary structures, mechanisms, and solar hardware that will help take humans back to the Moon and beyond. - Drove lunar landing analysis, including dynamic simulations, hardware analysis, vehicle performance estimates, and landing site monte carlos.

-Built a team of structures, mechanical and propulsion engineers and led the team in the design and analysis of thermal protection systems for the Raptor rocket engine and Starship/Super Heavy vehicle aft end heatshields. Team was responsible for the development of next gen thermal protection system architectures through conceptualization, test, build, integration, flight, and refurbishment. - Developed full scale test systems to qualify hardware for space flight and atmospheric reentry. - Helped to build a production facility from the ground up to produce flight sets of hardware at previously unprecedented pace. - Led recruiting and hiring efforts to grow the team - Responsible engineer for design, analysis, and test on numerous components, owning designs from conceptualization to integration onto the world's largest rocket.

-Responsible engineer for components of the Crew Dragon parachutes & pyrotechnics system. Owned numerous parts from conceptualization through test and certification for crewed flight. -Designed and fabricated numerous development and qualification test fixtures to validate hardware for flight. Extensive experience with test derivation and operation. -Led development and aerial drop testing for the Dragon parachute system and components -In-flight technical lead for over a dozen parachute drop tests using UH-60 Blackhawk & C-130 aircraft -Supported ocean recovery and fast boat operations for Crew Dragon's In Flight Abort Flight Test and initial crewed missions returning astronauts from the International Space Station

Provide a wide variety of landscaping services to high end residential clients. Services included lawn maintenance, large installations, mulching, snow removal, and other services. Experience with joint and individual work, customer service, and equipment care/maintenance.

-Designed compressor, turbine components and assembly tooling for development and instrumented test engines using Siemens NX -Proposed advanced technology designs and completed trade studies to assess performance, manufacturability, and reliability of each concept -Implemented plant-wide real-time production monitoring system using Prolink data collection software to log serialized dimensional part data and reduce production defects -Led a cross-discipline team to identify sources of nonconformance on turbine vanes and implemented process improvements to reduce product defect rates -Developed automatic reporting tools in VB to analyze production process control and capability -Completed Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Training

-Completed new technology testing and analysis for future application in jet engine oil and fuel systems. -Performed FEA structural, pressure and vibration analyses using ANSYS to ensure design robustness. Used results to perform fatigue life assessment. -Used Microsoft Visual Studio to develop data acquisition and analysis programs for automated testing procedures. Created novel mixed oil flow measurement technique. -Designed, modeled, and procured tight tolerance wrought machined parts for testing and pump applications utilizing Solidworks and GD&T. -Produced reports detailing technology research, design, testing and analysis.

Certified in Water Safety Instruction, Lifeguarding, CPR, AED and First Aid