Military Defense, Medical, Fuel Cells, and Photonics Nanotechnology and Advance Materials Expert

Expertise

Product and Materials Development

• Anti-biological warfare agents
• Anti-counterfeit agents.
• Catalysts, coatings and composites
• Concrete strengthening agents
• Fire extinguishing clean agents
• Fuel cell components
• High discrimination and gain antennas
• High specificity absorbents
• Nano-alloys
• Neutraceuticals
• Optical coatings
• Ultra black pigments

Client Specific Processes

• Development of nano and advanced materials and the development of proprietary processes, research and development and prototype development.
• Discover market trends for nanomaterials applications and broader acceptance.
• Exploitation of "size" as an independent degree of freedom in materials design providing new products with competitive cost and performance advantages using patented technology.
• Product research and development, applied Innovation, strategic planning, new and exploratory formation of businesses.
• Development of specialized production processes and analytical tools, packaging and preservation techniques for product.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, CTO and Technical Staff Member, 1999 - 2016

• Direct product research and development and applied innovation, strategic planning, new and exploratory business.
• Responsible for driving new product and program initiatives providing increased revenues and growth for clients.
• Scientific and technical program manager with hands-on exploitation of nanotechnology for product development.
• Responsible for identifying market trends for nanomaterials applications and broader acceptance.
• Scientific and technical program manager focused on developing new reactor technology allowing broader customer reach.
• Identify new business opportunities, prepared successful proposals, including cost and budget, understanding client's company capabilities, development, production, and economic product boundaries.
• Served as customer point of contact and negotiated all aspects of (government CPFF and FFP and industry) contracts including post award modifications.
• Provided technical assessment of and subject matter expertise for the patent process.
• Mentored the development of young engineers, scientists, project, business and administrative personnel.
• Pioneer in the discovery, development of nanomaterial products and the development of proprietary processes for their production.
• Extensive Program Management in new product, new materials research and development, and prototype development.

Projects

NASA Ames, Sunnyvale, CA - High discrimination absorbents for Water Recycle System Closure

• Led the development of a new process to dry water recovery brines created on the International Space Station.
• Developed a proprietary absorbent that sequestered a single brine component - without drying was inhibited.
• The developed absorbent added 1% wt. provided for complete drying of ISS brines under thermal processes.
• Cost savings are estimated between $320 million during the lifetime of the station.
• Responsible for the planning and executing all tasks and meeting goals on time and on budget.
• Proprietary absorbent nanopowder allowed for the first ever detailed elucidation of the composition of ISS brines.

Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Phila, PA - Nanomaterials by Design Reactor

• Managed customer sponsored research and development to designed and developed specialized reactor to use shaped femtosecond laser pulses as a reactant to control chemistry at the nanoscale.
• Inventor of particle size and composition via modification of laser pulse spectral and temporal content.
• Pioneered nanoparticle formation using light pulses containing "information" reactant molecules "understand."

Hughes Research Laboratory, Malibu, CA - High gain and discrimination antennas

• Develop metal alloy particles for composites used in miniature ultra high gain antenna applications.
• Responsible for the planning and executing of all tasks and meeting goals on time and on budget.
• Product was selected "best" from a round robin competition of several nanopowder companies and was the only company selected for further product development.
• Developed specialized product handling and packaging to protect pyrophoric product from exposure to oxygen.
• Delivered several pounds of nano-alloys of various compositions for incorporation into composite.
• Worked with other contractors to ensure material integrity was maintained throughout production.

General Motors, Detroit, MI - Fuel cell components

• Develop process to produce nanopowders for fuel cell components.
• Responsible for the planning and executing of all project tasks and meeting goals.
• Develop processing for new materials development which included RF plasma and produced several materials at quantities specified for customer for further testing,
• First to discover silicon nanopowder unique properties.

Vortec Corporation, Collegeville, PA, Advanced Materials Manager, 1997 - 1999

• Led advanced materials research and development and reactor prototype development efforts.
• Responsible for program management and served as principal investigator for government sponsored projects for the development of nano-powder reactor technology and nanomaterials with defense applications.
• Wrote many successful proposals for the development advanced materials and advanced materials processing technology.

Senior Scientist, 1996 - 1997

• Developed advanced modeling of thermochemistry of combustion process gases and development of fluoride partitioning agents.
• Developed air/water pollution control model for the fate of radionuclide partitioning (125 isotopes).

Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, NM, Technical Staff Member, 1990 - 1995

• Principal investigator of CRAD with industrial partner on electronic materials and nuclear waste stabilization and purification technology.
• Project Leader - Discretionary Internal Research and Development (IRAD) sponsored projects.
• Developed technology for the synthesis of complex ceramic nanopowders.
• Invented complex nano-powder mass production technology, nuclear waste processing, superconducting micro-circuitry lithography and fullerene-based system for stabilizing nuclear materials (and other stuff).
• Atomic and Molecular Physics IRAD review committee member.

Ayerst Pharmaceutical Laboratories Research Inc., Princeton, NJ, Assistant Scientist, 1985 - 1986

• Developed methods of analysis for mass screening drug candidates.

Diabetes Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, Research Specialist, 1982 - 1985

• Developed cryochemical and fast freezing processes for the study of transient biochemistry and biophysics.

EDUCATOR

Temple University, Philadelphia PA, Chemistry Department

• Associate Professor and Adjunct Faculty Member - Solid State chemistry and Physical Chemistry

Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering

• Physics and Chemistry Departments, Research Associate Professor. Introduced Drexel University to nanotechnology, was the principal investigator for the university's first nanotechnology research contract (Development and Applications of Complex Nano-powders for IR Missile Domes).

Chemical Engineering Department, Adjunct Associate Professor.

• Physics Department, Associate Professor
• Chemistry Department, Associate Professor, Chemistry for Engineers: key part of the "TDEC" program, assumed all course responsibilities included managing 3 professors and 30 teaching assistants - class size 595. Wave Mechanics and Optics: upperclassmen undergraduate course - assumed all course responsibilities.