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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Germantown, Md, Us

Intelligent Fusion technology, Inc (IFT) is a small, high-tech, R&D and engineering company that produces products across the industry sectors. We identify emerging technologies and use them to solve problems and advance the commercial sector. Innovative R&D areas include sensor and multi-INT fusion, situational awareness, AI/machine learning, predictive maintenance, cognitive radar, and digital engineering/digital twin development. Our current product lines include image processing & pattern recognition, RF situational awareness, space and terrestrial communication and network technology, and unstructured data for actionable intelligence.

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G-Technology Group is a one-stop engineering and product development firm. G-Tech partners with entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses to help them turn their ideas into professional designs, prototypes, and marketable products. G-Tech also produces in-house disruptive innovations that target untapped markets, including SONAR GLASSES, a new mobility assistive product for the blind and visually impaired. It received R&D grant funding from federal and state agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for innovative technology development.

Rockville, Maryland, Us

N5 Sensors, Inc. is a University of Maryland (UMD) spin-off commercializing a disruptive chip-scale gas sensor technology for industrial, environmental, and safety monitoring. N5’s microsensor arrays on a single chip aimed to replace multiple conventional macroscale gas sensors used in portable multigas detector. These new sensors, built using the same fabrication processes that are commonly used for silicon computer chips, are small, accurate, low-power and capable of detecting multiple gases at the same time. Using the patent-pending sensing architecture, N5 worked to develop low-cost, ultra-compact multigas detectors, which interfaced with mobile devices, allowing industrial workers, first-responders, and soldiers to assess the dangers of their surroundings in real-time using rugged mobile platforms.At the time of employment, N5 was targeting 2 different market segments:1) Low-cost hand-held industrial monitoring – This is a billion dollar global market with demand across various industrial operations from petrochemical, mining, natural gas, plastic, fertilizers, and many others.2) Next-generation of mobile devices based sensing for various consumer applications - This is a nascent market fueled by explosion of sensors for different phones and other mobile devices. N5’s low-power, low-profile, and low-cost technology is ideally-suited for those applications.At N5 I assisted in looking for strategic partnerships and investments to develop field-deployable systems for key applications and markets.

Ph.D., Candidate, all but dissertation (2014) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Advisor: David Allara Thesis topic: Studies of Molecular Assembly and Chemistry in Confined Geometries Data CollectionFTIR including RAIRS, Raman spectroscopy, spectroscopic and single wavelength ellipsometry, custom micro-array quartz crystal micro-balances (QCM), X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), atomic force microscopy (AFM), optical profilometry, secondary electron microscopy (SEM), contact angle goniometer, and grazing-incidence small-angle scattering (GISAXS) at Cornell's high energy synchrotron source.Substrate FabricationThin film metal and dielectric deposition with a thermal evaporator, e-beam evaporator, ion-beam evaporator. Substrate cleaning via chemical etchants, UV-ozone cleaning, plasma cleaning. Data AnalysisExperience with Mathematica, Igor, bash scripts, Fortran 77 & 95, C/C++, and Arduino boards.Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair of InstrumentsIon, turbo, cryogenic and mechanical oil pumps; glove box, air dryers, industrial water chillers, three home built reflection FTIRs, thermal evaporation, ion-beam evaporator, e-beam evaporator, single and multi-wavelength ellipsometers, home built contact angle goniometer, and computer building and repairing. Disassembling, Moving, and Reassembling InstrumentationSolely responsible for move of two home built reflection FTIRs, thermal evaporation, ion-beam evaporator, e-beam evaporator, quartz tube furnace, glove boxes, single and multi-wavelength ellipsometers, home built contact angle goniometer, and other general laboratory equipment as the lab was moved to a new building and incorporated into user facilities. Custom Instrument Design and Fabrication Designed and build heaters, sample holders, thermocouples, shutter mechanisms, vacuum chamber port designation and polished, drilled, tapped, and metal coated mirrors for FTIR optics.

Characterized the near surface elemental gradient, the surface elemental composition, and investigated the surface energy of a chemically and mechanically roughen titanium alloys. Learned how to act quickly to fulfill time sensitive demands of the biological coordinators and the FDA. Discovered the importance of proprietary information to a company and the limits it puts on discussions with outside parties.

Normal, Il, Us

Electronic Effects on M(CO)6 (M= Cr, Mo, W), Benzene, and Benzene Derivatives forming M(CO)5η2-Benzene and M(CO)5η2-Benzene Derivative ComplexesExperimentally determined the bond dissociation energies of metals and olefins using photoacoustic calorimetry (PAC) and computationally determined the bond energy for the formationJaguar quantum chemistry program was used to determine the bond energy for the formation of the M(CO)5 η2-benzene from M(CO)6 and benzene, where M= Cr, Mo, W.

New York, Ny, Us

Production of Solid Gold Conducting AFM TipsInvestigated single molecular junction conductance and breaking force by simultaneously recording conductance and force curves as a function of displacement, using a customized AFM setup.

Carbondale, Il, Us

Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP) program was used to determine the adsorption energy of BHm and B2Hn adsorption on the Pt(111) surface. A potential energy profile for the decomposition and dehydrogenation of B2H6 on the Pt(111) surface was constructed based on the calculated adsorption energies.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemistry

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Chemistry