Helping companies develop new business with the government or other companies and helping companies better serve their clients.

• Developed relationships with several DHS S&T program managers resulting in strategic multi-year funding for computational chemistry improvements to IMS chemical detection systems.• Established new relationships with several key program managers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and with key government program managers of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, DOD. Also established relationships with key individuals at the Radiation Safety Lab, and DNDO leading to good future funding opportunities for security services and products.

• Responsible for developing business with state and federal governments.• Led capture teams for sales in excess of $30 million for federal government pandemic and first responder purchases. Contributed to government sales specialists sales of $20 million to states and local governments for terrorism and pandemic preparedness.• Convinced leadership of HHS, the Executive Office of the President, and Congress that supply chain issues necessitated a large stockpiling purchase of N95 respirators for pandemic preparedness.

• Led a delegation of Japanese nuclear energy regulators to nuclear power plants to help them benchmark their own regulatory programs.• Developed homeland security and “continuity of operations plan” proposals to DHS and state agencies for Battelle Memorial Institute, Crystal City in Virginia.

Senior Project Manager, April 1991-1993• Oversaw industry radiation protection experts’ input to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on complex and controversial radiation and worker protection issues many of which were tied to limits of detection, e.g., setting standards for “how clean is clean.”Director, April 1993 – 1996• Led industry efforts to improve regulatory/policy decisions by the NRC and Congress on issues ranging from the improbability of zirconium fires in spent fuel pools to basing decommission funding estimates on lower prices for disposal of most low level radioactive waste at a site in Utah. • Hosted an average of 15 conferences a year for industry, government and public participation.Senior Director 1996-2003• Managed a budget of $1M and directed a staff of 5 senior professionals on complex technical, regulatory and public issues facing the nuclear power industry.• Spearheaded early industry post 9/11 security improvements.• Acting as industry spokesperson, addressed early post 9/11 public concerns regarding security at nuclear power plants through radio, television and print media interviews.• Developed a plan of actions that would be taken by nuclear power plants in response to DHS color-coded threat levels. DHS reported that the nuclear power plan was a model for other components of the nation’s critical infrastructure protection.

• Created a new market for 3M’s high performance packaging materials by establishing safer standards for transporting infectious materials as an industry representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.• Received 3M’s Prestigious Circle of Technical Excellence Award.