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Biography
Additional Title
- Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer and President & CEO, BWXT Medical Ltd.
Technologically-diverse executive with demonstrated success managing complex technical programs and teams and developing necessary strategy for execution. Since 2010 has inculcated numerous new programs for space and nuclear products including nuclear reactor, nuclear medical, heliophysics, planetary exploration and earth science. As a PhD Astrophysicist, has designed, developed, and launched numerous scientific missions for NASA and served as agency lead on major international missions, including Artemis 1 secondary payload deployment system and the selected payloads. Historical programmatic breadth formulating successful policy and strategies for program and mission design and development for various areas of science and technology.
Education
- Undergraduate
- University of Memphis: B.S. Physics, B.S. Mathematics (2001)
- Graduate
- Montana State University: Ph.D. Physics (2005)
- Executive Education
- University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Executive Management Certificate (2017)
- Northwestern University Kellogg School Finance for Executives (2020)
Research Interests
- GIS Data Science
- Space physics
- Spacecraft systems design
- Remote sensing data analysis and analytics
- Nuclear rocket systems
- Nuclear Medicine and Human Radiation Effects
Fission Systems & Radiation Transport
Professional Service
- BWX Technologies, Inc. • Lynchburg, VA • 2017 – present
- SVP, Chief Development Officer
- President, CEO • BWXT Medical • 2022 – present
- OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY • Oak Ridge, TN • 2018 – 2019
- Associate Lab Director, Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR)
- ASTRAEA, INC • Charlottesville, VA • 2016 – May, 2017
- Co-Founder and Chief Scientist/Technologist
- MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, NASA • Huntsville, AL • 2007 – 2016
- Manager • Science Research Office, MSFC/NASA • 2015 – 2016
- Exploration Systems Division Chief Scientist • Human Exploration and Mission Operations Directorate/NASA • 2013 – 2014
- Manager • Heliophysics & Planetary Research Office, MSFC/NASA • 2014 – 2015
- Astrophysicist • Heliophysics/Planetary Research Office, MSFC/NASA • 2007 – 2013
Awards
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal (2016)
- Karen Harvey Prize, Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical Society (2015)
- NASA Silver Service Medal (2015)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2011)
- NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2011)
- Harvard Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2004)
- NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellow (2003)