• Provides scientific and program management support for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), guiding crucial investments in breakthrough technologies • Program development: Identifies technical needs, screens literature for breakthroughs in various technologies including sensors, spectroscopy, artificial intelligence, chemical and biological analysis, develops novel research topics to meet needs, develops ConOps, refines program goals, metrics, and milestones, identifies risks and their respective mitigation strategies, writes and edits program documents such as Program Approval Documents and Broad Agency Announcements • Source selection: Evaluates research proposals, abstracts, and white papers for scientific and technical merit. Provides critical technical recommendations for decision making• Program execution: Guides progress, evaluation, and transition of successful research programs. Reviews performer progress reports, highlights accomplishments, and helps mitigate programmatic risks. Summarizes and prepares briefs for DARPA Leadership

• Provided program management support for Defense Biological Product Assurance Office, a system acquisition program for environmental bacterial/viral pathogen bio-detection assays and reagents • Assisted in the preparation of complex contracting strategies and documentation to maintain and improve the product portfolio• Prepared recommended budgets and financial objectives for both appropriated and reimbursable funding sources to satisfy mission and customers • Implemented policies, procedures and requirements in the management and execution of complex bio-analytical research programs and agreements as well as monitored related contracts • Developed and coordinated strategic partnerships in academia, industry, government and international collaborators• Risk Manager- Identified and assessed risks to new technologies and ongoing projects and propose mitigation strategies• Analyzed functional and technical deficiencies in biological defense to determine applicable scientific issues and makes recommendations on future program direction

• Responsible for multiple successful multimillion dollar contracts and analytical projects: formulating ideas, writing proposals, planning, budgeting, scheduling, managing risk, procurement, testing, configuration, and product improvement, meeting milestones and deliverables, briefing funding agencies and publishing results in peer reviewed scientific manuscripts• Planned and led teams of specialists and scientists coordinating day-to-day tasks of contractor support personnel with gov’t efforts to ensure projects meet customer and mission needs.• Growing and retaining outstanding scientific and technical personnel through a principal of advocacy • First production article/prototype testing and development of next generation Paperspray-MS, troubleshooting provided sample handler, patented sampling automation for unmanned aerial and wheeled vehicles• Developed and patented Vapor Sampling Adaptor for Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART)-MS in order to integrate with Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) test chamber facility • Worked extensively with Time of Flight (TOF)-MS, single quadrupole (Q), QQQ/tandem, ion traps, and Fourier Transform (FT) instruments from a variety of vendors (Thermo Orbitrap Elite, Agilent (various), JEOL AccuTOF, and more)• Coordinated programmers to develop mass spectrometric data reduction and analysis software• Subject matter expert in multiple Analytical and Physical Chemistry fields: Mass spectrometry (MS), Ambient Ionization, Optical Spectroscopy, Aerosol Science and more

• Proposed, planned, designed, conducted and interpreted experimental research• Developed MS analysis of complex, environmental & trace samples of Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs), TICs, TIMs, explosives, drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, biomolecules, and many more • DART-MS instrument and method development. Multiple publications and patentable improvements• Multiple successful technical demonstrations for US Govt including FBI, DPI, DTRA, DPG, EPA etc. • Developed software for quantitative analysis of instrument data, peak and anomaly finding algorithms• Established three fully equipped and operational analytical labs for CWA and other chemical research

•Taught second semester Inorganic Chemistry at night

•Discovered the world’s first series of double Rydberg molecular anions, NnH3n+1-•Studied zwitterion formation of amino acids during hydration, the minimum numbers of water molecules required to form zwitterions•Performed study of solvent stabilization of otherwise unstable anions •Synthesized and analyzed a wide range of nano-particles •Implemented Magnetic Sector MS increasing mass resolution ten-fold•Interfaced Ar+ laser more than doubling photoelectron signal•Led assembly of Time-of-Flight (TOF) MS with TOF Photoelectron Spectrometer

•Intermediate Chemistry Lectures, Physical Chemistry Lab, Physical Chemistry Lectures

•Studied interaction of small anions, such as NO-, O2-, and O-, with aromatic systems such as benzene, naphthalene and pyridine

•Studied nonlinear optical properties of organic dyes in polymer matrices•Electrochemical detector development for capillary electrophoresis