Experience and special interests include, but are not limited to:• Chemistry: Synthetic and theoretical.• Material Science & Nanomaterials: Synthesizing carbon nanomaterials (Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, Quantum Dots, Hybrid Structures), and various other nanoparticles and thin films. Characterization skills include: Spectroscopy, FT-IR, Subdiffraction microscopy, UV-Vis., and AFM. Focus on nanocomposites, catalysts, nanoelectronics, photovoltaics, sensors, and other 2D/3D nanomaterials, heterostructures and devices.• Biology: Bioinformatics, Structural Proteomics, Genetics, Epidemiology, Pathology, Oncology, Virology.• Physics: Atomic, Molecular, Particle and Theoretical. High-voltage electronics and power generation. Special interest in High-Energy, Plasma and Nuclear Physics. General interest in Astrophysics as well.• New Technology: Always looking towards the horizon. From solid-state advanced propulsion, power generation, quantum communication and computing, aerospace innovation, space exploration systems and technologies.

Advisory Board Member for the Mars Lava Tube Pressurization Project (MLTPP) offering nanotechnology advice and technical services for barrier materials design, integration and application.https://4thpanetlogistics.com/http://advancedtextilessource.com/2017/01/20/stronger-possibilities/

Contributor to the HumanDx Project.

Clients included Amazon and Tyson Foods. Duties included employee screening (magnetic wand, multi zone walk-throughs, and X-Ray scanning), parking lot access and control, parking lot enforcement, loss prevention, truck driver screening and processing, shipping container audits, alarm response, roving patrol watches, truck gate and parking lot gate guard house posts.

• Assisting special needs and disabled test takers for a local Pearson VUE-Authorized Test Center.

• Tutored college students enrolled in Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physical Science courses as employed by Rich Mountain Community College, with the Learning Enrichment Advising Center (LEAC).

Robotics summer academy instructor as part of the federally-funded (TRiO) Upward Bound Math & Science (UBMS) program.• Educated, inspired and encouraged participating area upcoming high school seniors to pursue STEM careers and higher education.• Provided Upward Bound students with classroom instruction in the design, engineering, and hands-on construction of fully functional robots.• Held a final competition in the form of a match wherein teams of students played against one another in an arena at the conclusion of the course.• Gave two separate groups of children a comprehensive robotics curriculum with classroom instruction, discussion and interactive assignments to meet with STEM core curriculum standards.• Instilled an in-depth engineering understanding from a industrial and business perspective to be vital and informed members of society and responsible and ethical shapers of tomorrow and their own future.• Fostered and cultivated creativity, independent analytical thinking, research, engineering, project management, and time management skills students will need in order to succeed in the modern workplace and to become leaders of tomorrow.

• Developed and managed a maintained IT infrastructure.• Provided engineering and AutoCAD drafting for private and business aircraft including repairs, installations, and modifications of avionics, cabinets, and instrument panels.• Established an enterprise network with rack mount server, several workstations, print stations, and administrative office private networking, and telephony, and configured same for daily business operation.• Developed and maintained company website. DHTML/CSS coding. WordPress customization and hard-coded website development. SEO optimization.• Designed all graphics for website, brochures, business cards, letterhead, etc.• Created a low-maintenance, secure IT system and procedure that I supervised.• Secured server and workstations with preventative and multi-layered defense strategies to comply with the aerospace industry to safeguard various levels of proprietary information and intellectual property, not only for the company's data but also for various clients’ data as well to meet requirements for Raytheon and Honeywell's IS and confidentiality requirements.• Created a unique network naming/addressing convention to safeguard financial data exchange between presidential and administrative offices on a private, secured separate network.• Created vendor and job database system with intranet queries for job look-up and report generation.• Created a transparent, automated system-wide backup system.• Configured a custom logon system to track employee workflow and project time expenditures for job cost tracking and work load analysis.• Operated as chief decision influencer for all office equipment and IT purchasing.• Monitored past, current and future trends in various technologies using various professional development, research methods, and self-educational resources.

• Designed printed publications, flyers, brochures, business cards for customers• Opened store and handled customer orders and transactions.