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Austin, Texas, Us

En Solución develops innovative food safety technology to keep healthy food healthy. Taking a deep-tech approach, En Solución builds and deploys hardware for the fresh produce and protein supply chain that reduces the risk of foodborne illness outbreaks and improves quality. The company is funded by the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food+City, and Institute of Food Technologists.

Austin, Tx, Us

Since its inception 30 years ago, ATI has had a dual purpose: to serve the university as an education and research laboratory for entrepreneurship and technology venturing, and to serve as a regional catalyst for economic development. ATI has been central to assisting university and community based entrepreneurs with building successful business teams, supporting technology ventures and facilitating access to capital. By mentoring innovators across campus and beyond, working with the regional business community to strengthen emerging technology sectors, and graduating high growth ventures into the local, state and national economy, ATI has maintained the reputation as one of the nation’s finest models for technology business incubation.

Washington, Dc, Us

Perform program management and conduct in-depth studies on the intersection of technology and human factors, providing improved security technology and risk mitigation policy across the DOE complex.

ClearZone Technologies is an Austin-based startup company working in smart cities with internet-of-things concepts to provide better protection and awareness for first responders to radiological threats. The company is funded by the National Science Foundation and is a spin-out from the University of Texas at Austin.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Manage a team of highly skilled scientists, programmers, and engineers providing support in project execution and business development, providing technical solutions to a wide range of customer needs.• Ensure strategic growth by recognizing trends, anticipating risks, and conceiving innovative solutions. • Identify and develop partnerships with academia, industry, and government. • Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers ranging from admirals, generals, political appointees, senior bureaucrats, senators, congressmen, staffers, vice presidents, and technical directors of Fortune 500 companies, and CEOs of entrepreneurial companies.• Effectively communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences. • Provide financial management, business development support, and fiscal oversight for group.• Mentor and guide junior staff to identify technical approaches, use high-level modeling software, develop hardware, and apply machine learning.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Principal investigator for DoD, DOE, intelligence community, private energy sector, and other government agencies. Extensive experience in instrument design, advanced analytics, qualitative and quantitative modeling, and technologically informed policy development. • As a result of trusted relationship with Government, invited to review and make recommendations regarding the nation’s nuclear security policies and procedures. • Recognized expert in insider threat. Helped develop National insider threat policy and make technology recommendations for DoD, NATO, DOE, and UK. • Conduct high-level reviews of critical infrastructure protection with regard to the cyber-physical threat. Developed policy for cyber-security protection of critical DoD assets. • Improved predictive capabilities for Texas Grid through machine learning with deep neural networks, forecasting load as a function of weather and periodic externalities. Examined household level energy and water usage for disaggregation analysis and efficiency inferences.• Conducted research for US Navy, the intelligence community, and major oil companies for novel satellite, land, and sea-based remote sensing technology; in-depth experience in the interpretation of sensing technology and associated physics based data analytics. • As a designer and instrument builder, solely or collaboratively built nine complex remote sensing instruments for remote mountains, coastal, subsea, and agricultural and urban spaces.• Supervised theses in Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering, Public Policy, and Law. Hired and mentored students from Electrical Engineering, Communications, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Public Policy, Nuclear Engineering, Operations Research, and Petroleum Engineering Departments.

• Consultant to pre-revenue companies on strategic business and technology decisions. • Collaborate with technology transfer and commercialization offices at multiple universities regarding strategic deployment of commercialization resources.• Advisor to many small companies across sectors including embedded computing, clean tech, autonomous vehicles, transportation infrastructure, oil and gas, and agriculture.• Mentor startups via accelerators at Clean Tech Open, Austin Technology Incubator Student Entrepreneurship Acceleration and Launch, Surge Accelerator. • Judge for pitch competitions at Defense Innovation Summit, Smart Cities Innovation Summit. Invited speaker at national SBIR/STTR conference on topic of partnering with Universities. • Initial liaison between University of Texas and new Defense Innovation Units, initiating strategic partnerships between the institutions.

• Perform real estate market research including use of historical data spanning 50 years for population growth, building permits, interest rates, sales, and listings. • Developed real estate models used to optimize cash flow considering depreciation, maintenance and debt restructuring options, and several future scenarios for a portfolio of twenty properties. • Perform behavioral economics bias analyses and present reframing options for financial advisors. • Experience with technical charting, options pricing, and futures trading. • Conduct historical market analyses and modeling across broad category of markets for momentum studies for portfolio optimization and fund selection. • Studied for General Securities Representative Exam (GSRE), Series 7.

• Provide strategic input, offer technical leadership, manage projects, help recruit new donors, and solicit gap-filling research. The Advanced Energy Consortium has consisted of 12 international companies funding research in nanotechnology at a level of $50M over six years.• Liaise between researchers and directors and vice presidents of multi-national oil and chemical companies (e.g. Shell, BP, BG, Total, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Statoil, Petrobras, ConocoPhillips, DuPont, 3M, Exxon). Established a common understanding of the collective goal, priorities, and approach. • Coordinated and led a team of 25 scientists (including chemists, physicists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, electromagnetic theoretical physicists, computational modelers, materials scientists, reservoir engineers, and applied instrument scientists) within 10 departments at 7 universities. • Initiated new subfield of geophysics as a key researcher developing novel concept of engineering nanoparticle inclusions in fluid injection and reservoir flow for new remote sensing modalities.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Initiated collaboration leading scientists and engineers to design mapping technique for fracture networks in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, employing smart nanoparticle tracers. • Visiting summer scientist in 2012. Bimonthly on-site visits in 2012 and 2013.

Washington, Dc, Us

As third hire, worked intimately with Project Scientist and Project Manager designing and implementing the startup phase of a 15-year $750 million project to build the largest optical telescope in the world. Engineered optical sensors to capture and analyze images for remote sensing turbulence in the lower layers of the atmosphere. Created processing algorithms to recover and extract information from extremely low signal-to-noise data from image analyzers deployed at the Magellan Telescopes in Chile.

Washington, Dc, Us

Interfaced University of Michigan’s fiber optic input instrument to the Magellan Telescopes and to a high-resolution spectrometer. Installed fiber optic instrument onto telescope, made technical and mechanical modifications at remote, resource-limited site in Chile. Contributed to the assembly, optical alignment and testing of custom-designed Echelle spectrometer, coordinating deliverables with machine shop technicians, external contractors, and project scientists.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Assisted in conceptual design of high efficiency spectrometer. Fabricated custom set of fiber optics. Developed relationships with external subcontractors and machinists. Defined and communicated technical specifications. Analyzed and compared low signal-to-noise data across the electromagnetic spectrum from space based and ground based observatories.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Astrophysics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Physics