Greater Idaho Falls
Mechanical Engineer with 10 years of experience working with spent nuclear fuel and radiological operations, specializing in equipment design and material characterization within remote Hot Cell environments. Currently working to advance nuclear fuel recycling and pyroprocessing technology!
Nuclear fuel recycling, hot cell facility design, equipment design, radiological work.
Hot Cell Engineer: • Destructive Exams Lead Engineer. • Design, prototyping, and installation of equipment for remote hot cell operation. • Examinations of spent nuclear fuel. • Nuclear safety, radiological, and environmental evaluations. • Radiological and hazardous waste characterization. Dry Storage Field Engineer • Procedures for handling and processing spent nuclear fuel for disposal. • Field support and technical evaluations for maintenance and repair of nuclear fuel handling equipment. • Design submittals, as-builts, P&IDs, RFIs, Approval Requests, and cost estimates and technical changes to contracts.
Demonstrated the use and assembly of experimental systems using contemporary instrumentation in the area of micro-fabrication, including photolithography, carbon nano-tube growth, and metal deposition.
Designing and building equipment to test different parameters of injection methods for genetic modifications to HeLa cancer cells to improve nano injection technology. • Published 3 papers. • Won First Place Best Paper at ASME 2015 IDETC International Engineering Conference.
Design, fabrication, and applications of MEMS. Technical properties governing their design, reliability, and fabrication technologies. • Demonstrated photolithography, plasma etching, metal deposition, etc.
• Prototype design, building, and testing of Multiplexed Photonic Doppler Velocimetry system (R&D 100 Award, 2012) to increase surface velocity measurement data acquisition by 800%. • Coordinated equipment operators and diagnostic teams to perform testing on portable detection equipment for accuracy in nuclear material identification • Assembled nuclear material testing experiments to observe high shock pressures, temperatures, and strain rates, ensuring proper safety/use of radioactive sources. • Fiber-optic Component Characterization - presented at 2012 PDV Conference