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Managing all award challenges for the Air Force Research Laboratory in conjunctin with the Idea Lab of the Wright Brothers Institute. Partnering with the Air Force to evaluate innovation techniques and tools that can be applied in a research environment.

• Trainer for the disciplined problem solving method to set up continuous improvement events for the AF Research Laboratory
• Provided analytical services to assist the business process reengineering for AFRL to refocus its efforts on key AF customers
• Provided data analysis to accomplish the first Strategic Alignment & Deployment to focus AFRL wide research to US needs.
• Assisted with 50+ Rapid Improvement Events to streamline AFRL operations, improve effectiveness, and reduce waste.

• Team leader and supervisor for 30+ in-house researchers plus contracted teams to develop new military capability.
• Improved office research budget from $300K to $5M per year within 8 years by aggressively securing new funding sources.
• Developed new line of research to use acoustics, and virtual reality to solve threat detection issues for AF security forces.
• Selected by peers and endorsed by organization CEO to lead 24 member supervisor team in process improvement efforts.
• Developed 3D audio radio concept that can navigate a person to his target using sound cues for covert nighttime operations.
• Led effort to develop new communication system that won the Federal Laboratory Technology Transition Award for 2006.

• Led and supervised the research team that became the go-to place in the US military for all environmental noise research
• Directed $2-5M annual research budget on noise modeling, measurements, effects, and mitigation methods for the Air Force.
• Developed annual symposia to educate DoD personnel on environmental noise issues (grew from 50 to 1000 attendees /yr)
• Directed and developed the DoD noise model (FAA Certified) that is used for all military base environmental studies
• Led team of international researchers (from 8 NATO countries) to develop terrain effects model for aircraft noise propagation
• Developed novel approach to measure and quantify sonic boom impacts on historical structures & endangered bird species.

• Developed and proved equipment and techniques to reconcile noise monitoring to model predictions of noise exposure.
• Conducted over 50 measurement programs on operational military aircraft to develop a noise modeling capability.
• Collected sonic boom data on all USAF and Navy aircraft for use in establishing approved supersonic training areas.
• Developed a patented unattended sonic boom monitor that saved the USAF over $15M in 5 monitoring programs

Bs, Physics-Math

Activities and Societies: Sigma-Pi-Sigma (Physics Honor Society) Intervarsity Christian FellowshipGraduated Magna Cum Laude in three and.

Post Graduate Classes, Computer Engineering

4.0 GPA

Post Graduate Classes, Computer Science

4.0 GPa