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# Personal details
name: 
- Richard
- Connor
- Johnstone
address: 4805 Devonshire St, Boulder, CO
phone: "1 (502) 414-1242"
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# Sections 
profile: Currently employed as an Aerospace Systems Engineer at Palski and Associates while earning a Master's in Aerospace Engineering, with a focus in Astrodynamics from the University of Colorado -- Boulder.

skills:
- skill: General Programming
  info: Both high and low level languages in a variety of different styles, including functional and object-oriented
- skill: Web Development
  info: Full stack web development (frontend, backend, database, some dev-ops) through career and personal projects
- skill: Astrodynamics
  info: Experience writing software for a variety of satellite estimation applications, including Statistical Orbit Determination using Kalman Filters, batch estimators in standard \`\`range and angles\'\' (Lambert's) systems as well as \`\`three angles\'\' (Gauss, Gooding's).
- skill: Trajectory Optimization
  info: Academic experience in optimizing trajectories for both low- and impulsive-thrust systems, utilizing gravity-assists
- skill: Attitude Control
  info: Knowledge and applcation of attitude kinematics and controls using Lyapunov control theory
#- skill: Container Orchestration
  #info: Limited experience in container management systems such as Kubernetes for deployment of personal projects

experience:
- employer: Palski and Associates
  title: Associate Systems Engineer
  city: Colorado Springs, CO
  description: Maintained and improved both front and back end of a web application, written in Angular and deployed through AWS, that provides satellite commanding simulations for the US Air Force in conjunction with an educational training program designed to train upcoming satellite operators. Also spent several months working on a development initiative to leverage hardware and computer-vision tools to create a realistic laboratory simulation of common rendesvous and proximity satellite operations using a 1/32 scale model of an operational satellite as well as several months developing the tools to perform satellite observations and orbit determination using imagery generated from our in-house telescope.
- employer: Lockheed Martin
  title: Mechanical Design Engineer II
  city: Lexington, KY
  description: Performed product design and redesign for several important armoring subsystems of the GMV 1.1 military vehicle, including cost reduction, weight reduction, and armor performance improvements on the vehicle chassis and outer shell. Typically performed rapid brainstorming and turn-around time to provide support for Special Operations in the US Army.
- employer: Rhodes Systems International
  title: Lead Design Engineer
  city: Louisville, KY
  description: Completely redesigned the kickout/crossover box subsystems for industrial tow-line conveyor systems in heavy equipment finishing and manufacturing. Responsible for system-level design of several projects with sale prices over $1 Million. Also responsible for oversight of machining and project fabrication shop operations.

research:
- title: Active/Passive Magnetic Shielding
  university: University of Kentucky
  city: Lexington, KY
  description: Spent two years working on a project that utilized the passive magnetic field shielding capabilities of µ-metal material and combined it with an active shielding concept utilizing a Helmholtz-coil design. The project is currently under the process of exploring patent options.
- title: IEC Plasma Generation
  university: University of Kentucky
  city: Lexington, KY
  description: As a Senior Capstone design project I led a team of Mechanical Engineering students to create an inertial-electrostatically confined plasma generated in a vaccuum environment using a Paaschen discharge event. Demonstrated applications in high voltage circuitry design and spectrographic analysis of plasma in a spacecraft propulsion capacity

education:
- major: Aerospace Engineering
  university: University of Colorado Boulder
  degree: Masters of Science
  completed: false
- major: Mechanical Engineering
  university: University of Kentucky
  degree: Bachelor of Science
  completed: true
- major: Physics
  university: University of Kentucky
  degree: Bachelor of Science
  completed: true

proficiencies:
- name: Languages
  list:
  - Python
  - Matlab
  - C++
  - Julia
  - Haskell
  - Javascript
  - Bash
  - HTML/CSS
- name: Frameworks
  list:
  - Angular
  - React
  - Flask
  - Yesod
  - Warp
- name: Guidance Software
  list:
  - GMAT
  - STK
- name: CAD
  list:
  - PTC Creo
  - Solidworks
  - AutoCAD
  - CATIA v5
- name: Other
  list:
  - Git
  - Vim
  - Microsoft Office
  - LabVIEW

honors:
- US Interim Top Secret Clearance
- Private Pilot's License (PPL)
- NAUI Scuba Certified
- National Merit Finalist
- ACT 35/36
- GRE V167, Q167, W5.5
- Magna Cum Laude
- Patterson Scholar

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