M. Brooke Beckert Email & Phone Number

United States

Atlanta, Ga

Atlanta, Ga

As the Program Manager for the Platform One Reseller program, which provides DevSecOps Platform as a Service offerings for clients. I managed our client relationships and PaaS sales pipeline; prepared project proposals; onboarded new clients to clearly define their requirements; and built and managed a technical team of Kubernetes subject-matter experts, DevSecOps engineers, and IT administrators.

Atlanta, Ga

I served as the program manager for large, complex government-sponsored research programs and GTRI organizational development projects. For R&D programs, I led operations in all phases of the project life cycle. I facilitated scope definition meetings, develop spend plans, schedules, and procurement plans, led communications, stakeholder engagement, and subcontract management. I also prepared large proposals for government sponsors. My programs focused on the use of DNA for data storage and reducing interference in high-performance communication systems.Within the Project Management Office, I drove corporate strategy implementation, process improvement, organizational change management, and employee training. I worked with GTRI executive leadership to define strategic plans that helped them to proactively manage growth and adapt to the evolving landscape of research. I facilitated ideation sessions with groups from all levels of the organization, then met with executives to refine and prioritize those ideas and define a clear implementation plan. I provided accountability for execution of action items, which required managing via influence rather than authority, and being comfortable working in the face of ambiguity. For change management, I developed and executed strategies to help employees quickly adapt to enterprise-level changes with minimal disruption to their daily work. Change initiatives included a complete re-structuring of IT security protocols, enterprise-wide software migrations, and improvement of business processes.I managed the curriculum that trained technical leads to apply project management best practices to their research projects, comply with government regulations, and effectively communicate with their sponsors and team members.

Atlanta, Ga

Managed relationships with industry stakeholders interested in funding research through the Materials Design, Development, and Deployment (MD3) consortium created by the GT Institute for Materials (IMAT). IMAT is a rally point for faculty that conduct materials-related research across academic units, including the Schools of Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science.• Worked with industry executives to define project scope and deliverables.• Managed partner relationships with GT faculty to ensure expectations were met and any issues were proactively addressed. • Recruited members to join and provide financial support for consortium, as well as organize logistics for consortium events.

Atlanta, Ga

Technical lead for research programs with overall responsibility for budget and deliverables. • Established research partnerships with colleagues from academia, industry, and clinical practices to define and perform applied research programs focused on the development of new materials for medical imaging and homeland security applications.• Developed scalable processing techniques including inorganic and organic wet chemistry, additive manufacturing, and high temperature synthesis.• Performed detailed materials characterization studies to analyze material properties and behaviors to predict behavior, troubleshoot performance issues, or identify failure.• Managed teams of scientists and engineers; set priorities and defined strategy for project execution.• Disseminated research results via publications in peer-reviewed journal articles and presentations at technical symposia.

Atlanta, Ga

I was the process development task lead for applied research projects in the areas of border security screening, sound dampening of jet engines, heat management in high powered electronics, and additively-manufactured magnetic devices. I also led teams to draft proposals for new research programs funded by the U.S. Government and private industry sponsors.

I developed new materials to detect and identify different radioactive isotopes at border security checkpoints around the country. My primary research area was glass-ceramic scintillators and phosphor powders. I formulated new glass compositions, optimized processing techniques and heat treatments, and performed all optical, thermal, and structural characterization. In my designs, I ensured that the ceramics could not only identify isotopes, but also that the of processing methods could be scaled to produce the large panels needed for border security screening systems. In addition to glass-ceramic scintillators, I developed new compositions for phosphor powders to be used in plastic scintillators and other photonics applications. I synthesized the nanophosphor powders using precipitation synthesis followed by encapsulation in transparent polymer matrix. As with the glass-ceramics, I worked with the phosphors from synthesis to scintillator fabrication to final optical characterization and measurement.I developed experienced in an array of materials characterization techniques, and can build a comprehensive picture of a material's mechanical, optical, thermal, and chemical properties. The most common techniques that I employed were differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermogravimetric analysis (TG), dilatometry, electron and optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence excitation (PLE) and emission (PL), transmission / absorption, particle size analysis, and gamma-ray spectroscopy.

In my undergraduate work, I primarily used inorganic chemistry to synthesize new materials. I helped create composite scintillators that are used to detect and identify radioactive material. I contributed primarily to phosphor-loaded polymer composites. I conducted materials selection studies to identify polymers with the required thermal and mechanical properties that could also be index matched with inorganic, nano-scale phosphor powder to produce a transparent scintillator. I synthesized and characterized the phosphors and tested them with multiple polymer matrices. I drafted journal manuscripts, conference proceedings, and sponsor reports.

M.S., Materials Science & Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Ceramics Society American Society of Materials Materials Research Society Graduate Student Advisory Group

Bachelor Of Science, Materials Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Ceramic Society American Society of Materials North Avenue Presbyterian ChurchResearch Option.