2/02 – 11/05 VOLUNTEER MATH TUTOR: California Youth Authority, Ione , California .

4/98 - CONSULTANT, AUTHOR & LECTURER

High Vacuum Pump Product lines, and Cryopump Engineering Department. P&L responsibility for cryopump business segment. Formerly, as Engineering Manager successfully staffed up cryopump engineering department.

Vacuum group leader of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Formerly vacuum group leader of Alternating Gradient Synchrotron Department of BNL where refurbished the AGS to decrease operating pressures from 1-2x10 ^-7 to <10 ^-8 Torr, and to improve reliability and maintainability for acceleration of very high intensity proton beams and heavy ions (e.g., Au ⁺⁷⁹). The RHIC, operating in the 10 ^-12 to 10 ^-10 Torr pressure region, is a heavy ion collider. Strong management and theoretical skills required in defining technical requirements, system modeling, scheduling and manpower loading, appropriating funds and executing projects. Managed a group of 13 engineers and technicians, and $12.4M construction budget.

P & L Manager of $15M/y Product Group in the Litton Electron Devices Division. Managed managers of Sales, Engineering and Manufacturing in designing, manufacturing and the sales of high voltage TWTA power supplies and subsystems used in ECM & radar system applications. Initially charged with and successfully developed an S-band, coaxial magnetron.

3/82 - 2/83 PRESIDENT & FOUNDER: Dynatec Associates, Inc., a technical consulting firm.

Manufacturing Operations Manager of Vacuum Components Division of Varian. Staff of two manufacturing facilities reported to me. Annual sales ~$20M. Manufactured sputter-ion pumps & supplies; cryopumps, vacuum gauging; UHV hardware, etc.

DIVISION R&D MANAGER: Varian Associates; managed annual R&D budget of $3.5M. Six departments; staff of 80 scientists, engineers, technicians and drafts people reported to me. Developed semiconductor coaters (e.g., “3180”); Gen II MBE equipment; surface physics equipment; vacuum hardware. The 3180 and its successors have been one of the most successful semiconductor coater lines in the world; also, over 100 Gen II MBE systems have been sold.

R&D DEPARTMENT HEAD: Varian Associates; "hands on" management of R&D of Pumps & Instruments product line. Started as R&D engineer, then given product line R&D responsibility. My team subsequently developed eleven (11) new and successful products.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, for several years did applied research in areas of high temperature technology, multipactor suppression, Penning discharge, vacuum materials and processes; accelerator vacuum system design. Initially employed as Klystron Liaison Engineer.

Spencer Labs; microwave tube development engineer. Hired to develop and qualify high temperature, vacuum tube processing equipment. Developed C-band, dielectrically tuned, multi-cavity klystron with magnetron injection cathode.

TIG welding, H₂ brazing. Designed and constructed, with assistance of physicists, tube vacuum processing equipment and heat exchangers.

Advanced to designer two years after being hired as R&D Dept. welder-fitter. Obtained three patents on complex mechanisms in six months.