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Beavercreek, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio Area

Authored patents, prepared proposals, lead research teams, primary technical host for external clients, and conducted modeling and simulation studies in multiple domains. Areas studied include polymers, microplastics, PFAS, composites, ceramics, alloys, heat transport in hypersonics, geophysics, solvents, proteins, mechanical deformation, fiber optics, RF, and classified work.

Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States

Conduct basic and applied scientific research in materials science and with nano-technology including colloidal quantum dots, HgCdTe-based sensors, and novel sensing technologies. Perform data analysis, develop physical models, perform modeling and simulation of nano-technology systems, and predict device behavior under different circumstances. Developed a series of machine learning algorithms and automated decision making using artificial intelligence for image processing and image analysis.

Manage IT responsibilities, MDF, file and database servers, perform DB admin duties, configure network infrastructure, develop data backup solutions, manage Active Directory, and other related duties. Configure scientific equipment and controlling computers with 100% uptime, and redundancy, as well as rolling out new technologies to enhance data mining and data acquisition.

Epir Technologies

Data analysis of complex interacting data sets across a wide range of device from HgCdTe CdZnTe and CdTe materials. Integrated a variety of device models into a simulation software. Developed robust multi-parameter fitting of measurements to device models in both IR and Solar.Wrote, lead, and succeeded in a variety of funded SBIR, STTR research proposals, as well as those by the DoE, DoD, and other agencies.Devised and implemented other optical and electrical device models and simulations for predicting performance, limiting cases and explaining physical phenomena.

Lemont, Il

Assisted in research of CdTe based solar cells with interdisciplinary teams from UIC, Argonne, and University of Texas. Performed electronic structure calculations, analyzed results and confirming experiments. Wrote technical reports, peer reviewed publications, and presented results at international conferences.

I design, invent, implement, maintain and test electronic and optic characterization equipment, as well as performing structured Designs of Experiments, performing analysis and writing analysis reports. I also write and update various programs and scripts to assist in data analysis, data interpretation, data mining, data collection and organization.

Tutoring Mathematics and Physics, including Calculus. Dealing one-on-one with questions and concerns, explaining and re-teaching major concepts from basic Calculus and Newtonian laws to Quantum Mechanics.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Physics, Semiconductor Physics

Activities and Societies: Microphysics Laboratory, American Physical Society

Bachelor Of Science, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science

MAA Member