Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan: PhD (2009) Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Thesis: Explicitly Restarted Arnoldi’s Method for Monte Carlo Nuclear Criticality Calculations; MS (2005) Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah: BS (2003) Physics

This is only a summary of activities. Please follow the links for additional information.

Nuclear Data Team Leader (January 2020–present)

R&D Scientist (October 2010—present)

X-Computational Physics Division, Materials and Physical Data Group (XCP-5)

Led effort to create NJOY21, a modernized version of NJOY, a nuclear data processing code. Instrumental in making NJOY2016 and NJOY21 Open Source and distributed at https://github.com/njoy
Regular leader and participant in Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC)
Participated in high-priority effort to modernize the code, data, and techniques of the Nuclear Criticality Safety team at LANL.
Active participant in Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) to ensure highest quality nuclear data is available to scientists.
Led the production of several nuclear data libraries used at LANL and throughout the world.

Postdoc (August 2009–October 2010)

Nuclear Nonproliferation Division, Safeguards & Security Group (N-1)

Principle investigator of the Passive Neutron Albedo Reactivity with Fission Chambers (PNAR-FC) detector.
Created a Monte Carlo-based method of inferring plutonium content of spent fuel assemblies based upon a few simulations and the input parameters of the detector response and spent fuel assembly characteristics.
Created a package of Python scripts to facilitate the reading of MCNP input files, extraction of tally results, post-processing of results, and plotting results.

Graduate Student Research Assistant (July 2003–August 2009)
Graduate Student Instructor: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department

You can see an extensive list of my publications here

I’ve been very fortunate to have mentored several great students. Look at my Students page for more details

2021 United States Department of Energy, The Secretary of Energy Achievement Award Presented to the Spent Fuel Nondestructive Assay (NDA) Project Team
2020 LANL Distinguished Performance Award Large Team Award: Spent-Fuel Nondestructive Assay Project Team
2013 Graduate of Theoretical Institute for Thermonuclear and Nuclear Studies (TITANS)—Los Alamos National Laboratory
2013 Los Alamos Awards Program for MCNP6 and ENDF/B-VII.1 Development Team—Defense Program, United States Department of Energy
2013 Management On-Ramp Endorsed—Los Alamos National Laboratory
2005 Outstanding Oral Presentation in Computing—Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium
2004 1st Place, Graduate Category—American Nuclear Society Student Design Competition
2003 Outstanding Graduate Award—Physics Department, Weber State University
2002 Beishline Computer Application Fellowship—College of Science, Weber State University
2002 Best Undergraduate Poster—Four Corners Section, American Physical Society

WPEC Subgroup 43 (co-chair) (2017–2021)
WPEC Subgroup 38 (member) (2014–2018)
Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) (2011–present)
XCP Student Liaison (2018–2020)
Program Committee (member), Reactor Physics Division, American Nuclear Society (2013–2018)
Technical reviewer:
- American Nuclear Society:
  - Math & Computation Division (2010–present)
  - Reactor Physics Division (2012–present)
- Annals of Nuclear Energy (2016–present)
XCP Recruitment, and Retention Committee (2011–2016)
ADX Computing Communications Committee (2016–2018)
XCP-5 Group Leader Search Committee (2012)
Bid committee PHYSOR 2013 at Santa Fe (2011)
NERS@50 Organizing Committee (2008)

Strong computer programming skills. Proficient in Python, C++, LaTeX, git.
- Exposure to C and Fortran 90/95.
Experience running scientific codes such as MCNP, and NJOY.
Speak and read French.