Conduct specialized studies, evaluations, calculations, and investigations.

• Support customers with their experimental setup, data acquisition & analysis, and use of Adelphi’s neutron generators.• Perform Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis.• Conduct R&D development of novel liquid noble gas detectors for homeland security purposes.• Perform radiation transport calculations using COG, MCNP6.• Respond to government solicitations.

• Developed Special Nuclear Material and Shielded Special Nuclear Material detection systems using neutrons and x-rays.• Performed photo-neutron production studies to obtain maximum neutron yield.• Provided data analysis and experimental support for all major projects.• Managed internal and government funded research and development programs. Responsibilities include planning, developing, and coordinating program functions, timelines, and budgets. Manage subcontractors for internal and government funded research and development efforts.• Successfully managed a $2M collaboration between Rapiscan, Adelphi Technology, and Yale University, sponsored by PSEAG through Adelphi Technology, involving the construction of liquid Ar and Xe doped liquid Ar detectors for the advanced detection of special nuclear materials. • Secured Phase I funding from DNDO to identify, design, and validate criteria driving progress in advancing linear accelerator technology for active interrogation methods (using X-ray and neutron scattering) to identify Weapons of Mass Destruction including Improvised Explosives Devices.• Patent: High-Energy X-Ray-Spectroscopy-Based Inspection System and Methods to Determine the Atomic Number of Materials. June 10, 2014: US 8,750,454.

• Managed and carried out an independent research program focusing on the affects of low doses of ionizing radiation on living tissue through the study of fundamental electron scattering experiments (used for such applications as exposure to medical x-rays and other diagnostics). Coordinated efforts of collaborating teams from Pacific Northwest National Labs and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Designed and supervised construction of experimental equipment. • Secured a $1M FDA grant for food safety and security monitoring with respect to radiological health.• QA/QC Officer of the NYSDOH Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Laboratories.• Developed low temperature (-80 °C) aerosol particle sizing instrumentation (used in such applications as atmospheric chemistry and material sciences).• Modeled experimental outcomes using Monte Carlo radiation and particle transport codes (used for such applications as the computer programs used to generate patient radiation treatment plans).• Developed and taught the “Dosimetry and Radiation Protection” section in the “Principles of Radiation Sciences” course at the University at Albany Graduate School of Public Health. Assistant Professorship held 2002-2008.

• Secured and managed a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) grant for the investigation of a silica-thoria gel threshold neutron detector. Developed the silica-thoria gel and the experimental set up necessary for proof of concept experiments.• Conducted high-precision measurements of low energy total neutron scattering cross sections, using time-of-flight techniques, for the study of Ericson fluctuations and the extraction of level densities. • Designed and developed novel neutron detectors for high intensity neutron beam monitoring. • Benchmarked the LLNL Monte Carlo gamma-ray transport code COG.