Resume

• 2007

  Ph.D

  Founding President

  Triangle-Area Universities INMM Student Chapter\nTechnician Viewpoint writer

  Nuclear Engineering

  ANS

  Technician

  Institute of Nuclear Materials Management

  North Carolina State University

• 2002

  M.S.

  Opinion Editor

  Iowa State Daily

  Summer 2004\nOpinion Columnist

  Iowa State Daily

  Nuclear Physics

  Iowa State Daily

• 1998

  B.S.

  Minors in Mathematics and Philosophy\nOpinion Columnist

  Iowa State Daily

  Physics & Astronomy

  Iowa State Daily

  ISU Libertarians

  GSB

  IRHA

• C++

  Fortran

  Nuclear

  Nuclear Engineering

  ORIGEN

  Perl

  Skutnik

  Steve

  Skutnik

  NC State University

  Iowa State University Department of Physics & Astronomy

  University of Tennessee

  Knoxville

  North Carolina State University

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Adler Planetarium

  Oak Ridge

  TN

  Projects included assisting in the development of improvements to the ORIGEN package for evaluating nuclear fuel depletion

  high-fidelity nuclear fuel simulations to provide benchmarks for non-destructive assay experiments

  and assisting in the development of a next-generation searchable database of experimental data from spent fuel characterization experiments.

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Served as the lead educator on two major electronic-intensive exhibit galleries: CyberSpace Gallery and the Space Visualization Laboratory (SVL). Accomplishments included the development of a comprehensive education and outreach strategy for the new SVL public visitor experience

  as well as a comprehensive overhaul of the CyberSpace computer infrastructure and electronic content.\n\nAlso managed and developed visitor and field trip programming for the CyberSpace Gallery

  including implementing

  evaluating

  and revising the CyberSpace Computer Classroom (CCC) programs.

  Master Educator for Emergent Technologies

  Greater Chicago Area

  Adler Planetarium

  Ames

  IA

  Responsibilities included teaching two recitation and laboratory sections of calculus-based physics to undergraduates

  with a curriculum including electricity and magnetism

  basic thermodynamics

  optics

  and an introduction to quantum mechanics. \n\nNotable accomplishments included being consistently rated among the top teaching assistants in the Physics Department.

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Iowa State University Department of Physics & Astronomy

  Knoxville

  Tennessee Area

  Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering

  University of Tennessee

  Knoxville

  Knoxville

  Tennessee Area

  Tenure-track faculty with a research and teaching portfolio concentrated on nuclear security

  nuclear waste disposition

  and advanced nuclear fuel modeling applications.

  Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering

  University of Tennessee

  Knoxville

  Research focus was in the design and implementation of an experiment to characterize the radiation environment of the PHENIX interaction region (IR) to determine the frequency of predicted single event upsets in SRAM-based FPGAs

  facilitating evaluation of their suitability for deployment in front-end detector electronics. Additionally designed both a simple C-based Monte Carlo and a more sophisticated GEANT-based model to simulate upset rates in SRAM-based FPGAS in the PHENIX IR.

  Iowa State University Department of Physics & Astronomy

  NC State University

  Current research involves the further development of a fuzzy-logic barrier model for proliferation resistance in the nuclear fuel cycle. This work has included rewriting the model in C++

  adding the ability to directly import isotopic information from ORIGEN (part of SCALE)

  and evaluate different fuel cycle configurations directly

  for a cross-comparison of various fuel cycle alternatives.\n\nOther work includes the development of the OASIS user input module for ORIGEN

  which substantially enhances its usability and analysis capabilities

  allowing for simplified fuel cycle analysis.

  Research Assistant

  Raleigh-Durham

  North Carolina Area

  Oak Ridge

  TN

  Developed the OASIS interface module for the ORIGEN-S package in SCALE (in FORTRAN)

  substantially streamlining user input requirements for nuclear fuel depletion case analysis. OASIS also allows for chained analysis cases

  thus affording vastly simplified abilities to perform advanced fuel cycle analyses.

  NESLS Fellow

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Developed and taught a hybrid

  graduate-level course on nuclear nonproliferation and international safeguards

  including the coordination of remote streaming video lectures from ORNL subject matter experts. Topics included the nuclear fuel cycle

  techniques employed for verification of international safeguards compliance

  physical security

  and the international nonproliferation regime.

  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering

  Raleigh-Durham

  North Carolina Area

  North Carolina State University

  Oak Ridge Associated Universities

  Teaching Excellence Award

  Iowa State University

  Department of Physics & Astronomy

  Richard G. Patrick Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant

  Iowa State University

  Department of Physics & Astronomy

  Outstanding First-Year Teaching Award

  Iowa State University

  Department of Physics and Astronomy

  Nuclear Nonproliferation & International Safeguards (NNIS) Graduate Fellow

  U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration