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Consulting in technology and process innovation; continuous business process improvement; real-time process monitoring, control, and proactive adaptation; real-time system generated metrics development (unique capability); support to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, turnarounds; development of specialized artificial intelligence based software applications and new cognitive science approaches to scene, process and business analysis; development of unique counter-terrorism stand-off (remote) screening sensors and active countermeasure devices (patent in process); quantum computing; fusion of LEAN, Theory of Constraints, Kaisen and Six Sigma in unified process analysis, monitoring, continuous improvement, and control AI software environment; maintenance and employment of network of partners and consultants

Responsible for financing, business development and contract closure, contract execution management, technology development, staff and team building, administration management, product and service quality control. Served as Director, Advanced Programs, DIAL (College of Engineering, MSU) under contract. Strategic customers included research and engineering firm (SAIC) National Laboratories, California EPA, IT enterprises, U.S. Department of Energy

Stragetic consulting; business development; lead technology consultant to U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology / EM-50 / MWIP; represented U.S. at NATO Advanced Studies Workshop in Visegrad, Hungary; assessed technologies and systems for management of radiological and hazardous wastes, developed and recommended improved strategies, systems and processes fo USDOE Weapons Complex environmental management programs

Development of innnovative and effective technical approaches to cocaine eradication; detection of man-made corrupt electromagnetic signals; advanced meteor busrt communications systems applications and improvements; client and proposal development for intelligence agency related activities.

Start-up strategy and business planning, financing, organization and management; professional staff recruitment; technology development and application; strategic customer capture; R&D management; IPO structuring and filing preparation; investor relations

Responsible for applied research, engineering, technology development and innovation for Government and private clients; business development; electro-optics laboratory management; interim division management; weapons of mass destruction and directed energy weapons defense; enhanced oil recovery; petroleum reservoir characterization; modeling and simulation; simulation, monitoring and control; instrument development.Customers included the U.S. Air Force (Chemical and Biological Weapons Defense; fate of materials in space); Defense Special Weapons Agency / Ballistic Missile Defense Command (Nuclear weapons simulation; missile warhead protection); U.S. Army Harry Diamond Laboratory (countermeasures to directed energy weapons); Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (remote sensing of chemical and biological agents); U.S. Department of Energy (thermal and microbial enhanced oil recovery); Command, control and communications (Royal Saudi Navy); U.S. Navy (applications of biotechnology);

Manager of the Laboratory for Lung Cancer Research within the Laboratory for Virus and Cancer Research. Developed new immunological assays, including a radioimmunoassay for melanoma and general health status; managed production of immunological / immunotherapeutic vaccines for Phase I and Phase II late stage lung cancer immunotherapy trials, which yielded an 88% 5-year survival rate vs 33% survival in the control population; developed analytical method for extraction of signals from multidimensional, non-linearly-interacting analytical system; invited lecturer at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Laboratory for Immunodiagnosis; awarded achievement medal by Ottawa General Hospital for lung cancer treatment contributions; consultant to Roswell Park Memorial Institute and the M. D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor Institute in lung cancer vaccine research and production and assessment techniques

Ms / Ph.D. (Abd), Physical Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Sigma XiOptical probing and elucidation of dynamic energy transfer mechanisms in heteroatomic systems.

Bs, Chemistry

Turned independent laboratory experiment into one of six initial contract awards under U.S. Department of Energy's Microbially Enhanced.