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California, United States

Reno, NV, US

ABTC (Nasdaq: ABAT) is an advanced lithium-ion battery technology development and commercialization company that is operating facilities for both the recycling of lithium-ion batteries and for the manufacturing of battery grade lithium hydroxide from its domestic-US claystone sedimentary resource. These first-of-kind facilities manufacture domestic.

Reno, NV, US

Reno, NV, US

The Critical Materials Institute is a U.S. DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by Ames Laboratory that seeks to accelerate innovative scientific and technological solutions to develop resilient and secure supply chains for rare-earth metals and other materials critical to the success of clean energy technologies.

M2 Thermal Solutions is an engineering design firm that leverages first-principles-based physics to develop and commercialize highly innovative solutions to address global energy systems challenges. We are extremely proud that our first-of-kind residential air conditioning system, that exhibits a disruptive improvement in energy efficiency over current.

Austin, Texas, US

Founded and led a cross-functional team of 8-10 mechanical and chemical engineers and scientists in the conceptual design, rigorous thermodynamic and process modeling, design/fabrication of bench-scale prototypes, design of manufacturing processes, and commercializing of innovative first-of-kind systems for the manufacturing of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and.

Austin, Texas, US

Founding member of Gigafactory design team for the design, construction, commissioning, and operations of the lithium-ion battery gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. Led first principles based design of first-of-kind systems, equipment specification, manufacturing and procurement of systems, and commissioning and training of operations teams for cell.

Birmingham, Alabama, US

• Led project team of 5-10 chemical/mechanical engineers in fundamental design of first-of-kind systems throughout energy systems field. Developed physics based models, designed/built prototype units, scaled up to bench.
• Grid Scale Energy Storage: Development of a reversible gas-solid reaction based system utilizing a tailored stabilized calcium-based sorbent in a closed-loop thermochemical reactor for high-temperature (~800C) energy.
• Geothermal Lithium Extraction and Power Generation: Developed hybrid system utilizing nanostructured thermoelectric solid-state modules, membrane distillation, and selective sorbents for co-generation of electricity.
• Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC): Development of system utilizing gasifier, hot gas cleanup, and packed-bed reactor with hybrid water-gas shift catalyst and magnesium-based CO2 sorbent to generate hydrogen.
• Hybrid PV/CSP: Design of system utilizing selectively transmissive multi-junction PV cells as a topping cycle integrated with optical wave guide and Infrared thermal absorber with an organic Rankine cycle heat engine.
• Synthesis of Renewable Jet and Diesel Fuel: Development of system utilizing downdraft gasifier, hot gas cleanup, and selective Fischer-Tropsch catalyst to synthesize fuel from biomass/coal feedstocks

Consultant performing rigorous thermodynamic, strategic, and economic analyses of technologies and business plans of startup companies throughout the renewable energy systems field (advanced biofuels, solar thermal power generation, solar thermal heating, solar photovoltaic microinverters, advanced LED lighting, and hybrid-electric vehicle powertrain design)

- Founded and led a team of ~60 engineers to design, model, build, test, and validate an advanced technology power-split electric Sports Utility Vehicle- Used model-based design (Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow) and multi-objective optimization to systematically analyze powertrain architectures across fuel economy, emissions, performance, drivability, and life.

- Led development of solar driven chemical heat engine, sponsored by King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia- Device converts sunlight to electricity through the use of a closed-loop process undergoing a high temperature endothermic and a low temperature exothermic reaction in opposing reactors- Designed solar thermal reactor which uses catalytic.

Startup company developing an innovative biochemical commercial process to produce transportation grade cellulosic ethanol from southern pine trees- Constructed a rigorous thermodynamic and process flow model software to calculate refinery-wide plant level dynamics from component level data- Systems modeling performed in Aspen Plus, Fortran, Aspen Icarus.

Bethesda, MD, US

Fluid Dynamics Engineer in the Fluid Dynamics Technology group of the Technology Information Systems department- Developed non-linear analyses of two-phase steam/water flow stability within heated passages of primary coolant loop in reactor cores; resulted in upgrading of power set-points in active US Nuclear Naval submarines- Multiphase flow dynamics.

- Structural engineering and design of fuel cask handling facility- Worked with US Navy and vendors to create design changes and hold assemblies to fuel handling specifications for development and construction of a spent fuel cask lift in a nuclear fuel storage facility; resulted in successful installation and testing of cask elevator- CAD and FEA modeling.

Boston, MA, US

Power Systems business developing land-based natural gas turbine systems in the Controls and Accessory Systems Engineering group

Mechanical engineer in Power Systems business in the Control and Accessory Systems Engineering group, developing systems for large scale land based natural gas power generation systems

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Engineering Science

Energy Systems