Education
Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering July 2011
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
3.56/4.00 GPA
Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering May 2008
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
3.05/4.00 GPA
Technical Skills
Software: MCNP, Matlab, MS Office Suite, Latex
Programming Languages: Fortran, C++, VBA, SQL, VHDL
Equipment: Radiation detectors and related electronics, high-voltage systems, vacuum systems, scanning (SEM) & transmission (TEM) electron microscopes, machining equipment
Communication: Proven written, verbal, and graphical communication skills
Experience
Research Assistant 06/2010 – Present
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, Oregon State University (OSU)
• Developed novel methods that accurately accounted for pair production effects in pulse height distribution simulations using deterministic transport solutions
• Conducted MCNP detector modeling including pulse height distribution simulations and energy and scatter component characterization of partial currents
• Calculated discrete ordinate transport solutions and wrote data processing algorithms using Matlab and C++ programming languages
• Utilized parallel processing capabilities of a Linux based high performance computing cluster
Associate Fellow; Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program 06/2009 – 06/2010
U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Washington, DC
NA-212 Office of European and African Threat Reduction, Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
• Assisted in the oversight and management of NNSA sponsored reactor conversions and related programs; including budgeting, resource allocation planning, and the preparation of status reports
• Developed a relational database and interface used to track project information using MS Access, Visual Basic, and SQL scripting
• Generated official communications for a diverse audience including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the US Department of State, the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories, and international collaborators
• Conducted preliminary neutronic analysis of fresh fuel shipping assemblies using MCNP
Teaching Assistant 09/2008 – 06/2009
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, Oregon State University (OSU)
• Tutored students, created homework solution sets, and graded coursework for graduate-level radiation physics and neutronics courses
• Created a 2-D finite difference diffusion simulation for eigenvalue problems using Fortran
Scientific Software Analyst 12/2007 – 05/2008
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico
• Assisted with testing of a developmental deterministic neutronics software package by creating benchmark simulations of critical systems using MCNP and DANTSYS
• Computed energy of average lethargy causing fission data using the Monte Carlo ...
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