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Director and Business Unit Lead of Engineering Solutions at Applied Technology Solutions (ATS). Experienced in building and leading effective multidisciplinary teams to complete challenging engineering tasks. My personal technical background includes a Masters from MIT in Nuclear Engineering as well as work experience in hypersonics, thermodynamics, fluids, materials science, corrosion, heat transfer, reactor physics, and other various facets of nuclear engineering. I’m highly motivated, hardworking, a very fast learner, and focused on empowering teams to provide top quality work on time.I previously served as the Engineering Manager and Chief Engineer of i3’s Ground Test Facilities Development business unit, with responsibility for multiple engineering groups including Systems, Mechanical, Aerothermal, Instrumentation and Data Acquisition, and Site Management. The team’s primary focus is the design and implementation of the Project Phoenix hypersonic wind tunnel, the nation’s most capable hypersonic testing facility. In my role as Engineering Manager I have balanced technical oversight and process development with spearheading business growth opportunities while personally leading the design of the Phoenix facility's hypersonic nozzles.Prior to this role I worked as the project's Aerothermal Engineering Manager, leading the design of the project’s most technically challenging system. A redesign of this system resulted in $18M in savings, 11mo of schedule recovery, and a significant improvement to facility performance. Following its CDR our customer called the design of this system “an engineering achievement on par with those that made the premiere facilities at Arnold Air Force Base possible.”Previously I worked as a Senior Nuclear Engineer at Duke Energy in Safety Analysis and Nuclear Core Design. My work provided multi-million-dollar savings, innovative core designs with record setting fuel efficiency, and timely calculation originations and reviews recognized for their consistently high quality (see Honors & Awards).I have a Masters in Nuclear Engineering from MIT with a focus in Materials Science and a Bachelors in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. While studying at Tennessee I worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on designing the means of studying rare isomers generated in the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility.