How did you get interested in space? 
From a very young age I have always been interested in space. I grew up watching shows such as Cosmos and Nova and they instilled in me a great fascination with our universe. My father also helped nurture this interest, always calling me to come look through a telescope to see the craters on the moon, the rings of Saturn or the moons of Jupiter. Through CubeSat my love for space has only grown. I have found that it is a fascinating field with challenging problems which keep you busy and entertained every day! In the future I would love to work on long term electric propulsion methods for space travel, most specifically on Direct Fusion Drives given my interest in Plasma Physics.

Tell us a bit more about yourself and your experience before joining Wyvern.
I am the son of Costa Rican immigrants and grew up in Fredericton New Brunswick. I attended a French school throughout my childhood and am now completing a degree in Applied Physics at the University of New Brunswick. Before joining Wyvern, I was involved in the University of New Brunswick’s CubeSat Project, VIOLET. I was the project manager of the imaging payload, SASI (Spectral Airglow Structure Imager) and lead the team in a redesign of the optics, the development of our opto-mechanical cell, the design of our custom PCBs as well as the development of a custom embedded Linux image for our subsystem. Through this experience I have had the opportunity to work with many industry experts and learned enormously from my collaboration with them. In addition to CubeSat, I was a research assistant in the Physics department’s Atmospheric Physics Laboratory. Here I worked with fully compensated Doppler Michelson Interferometers. My main work was on the characterization of a Lab interferometer with segmented mirrors which could generate 4 separate images of a field simultaneously. This work is done to further understand the properties of such interferometers and in the hopes of one day using them in space applications.