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Oversight and monitoring of research progress and contract deliverablesPrimary conduit for sponsor and client communicationsResponsible for project plans, budgets, and schedulesCoordinate off-site field testing at government facilitiesDepartment representative at national conferences

• Designing, testing, and characterizing radiation surveying technologies for nuclear remediation activities• Perform MCNP and theoretical calculations for radiation detection and nuclear applications• Responsible for developing project test plans, design documents, monthly reports, quarterly reports, and final reports• Preparation of DoD and DOE related project proposals and budgets• Collaborate in Technical Working Groups for nuclear remediation and filtration related projects• Collaborate with sponsors and technical working groups to design test plans, testing infrastructure, testing procedures, and data reduction methodologies• Maintain radiological detection facilities including: HPGe counting laboratory, Portable HPGe, Inorganic Scintillators (Sodium Iodide, Lanthanum Bromide, and Cerium Bromide), Organic Scintillators, Neutron, and hand-held survey detectors• Conduct field work at military installations demonstrating performance of experimental radiological surveying technologies • Performing non-destructive gamma ray spectroscopy on environmental samples• Experience working with radioactive materials: sealed sources, unsealed material, depleted uranium, and uranium oxides• Manage radiation and general lab safety for all department projects• Manage research associates and undergraduate research assistants• Author and publish journal articles and conference papers• Paper presentations at Waste Management Symposiums, Nuclear Air Cleaning Conferences, and Project Sponsor Meetings• Experience working under an ASME NQA-1 Program

• Radiation detection, simulation, and analysis• MCNP and theoretical calculations involving radiation detection and nuclear decay processes. • Radiation detector and survey system testing and characterization.

• Research includes determining methods to calculate personal exposure rates using gamma-ray spectroscopy.• Collect gamma-ray spectral data utilizing scintillation detectors, wrote software to reduce spectral data for analysis.

• Redeveloped an old program used to model comet atmospheres.• Developed program documentation to improve user-friendliness.

• Conceptualized and formed a manufacturing and sales partnership to provide an innovative product to an automotive enthusiast market.• Spearheaded development of a cost-effective automatic headlight sensor for current generation Volkswagen vehicles.• Managed manufacturing to ensure the end customer received a product of consistent quality.

• Searched for gravitationally-lensed gamma ray bursts.• Developed software to examine gamma ray burst time profiles to look for gravitational lensing