Capabilities Summary

Capabilities Summary:  Highly motivated client advocate, self-employed for over 23 years, working with private sector, academic, and state, federal, and international governmental organizations. Interdisciplinary experience in a wide range of sciences and technologies and the dynamics of the organizations that support them. Proven ability to turn massive amounts of information into action plans and to implement them.  Always seeking consulting opportunities that allow exercising a diverse and unique skill set to help clients reach their goals.

Education:                1982        Ph.D., Biochemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

                                1974        B.S., Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

                                1971        B.A., English, minor in Electrical Engineering, The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Selected Ongoing and Historical Experience in Relevant Functional Areas:

Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Management

Calibration/Validation Engineer, Plan development, NPOESS PP Integrated Program Office, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Chair, Montana Section, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Bozeman, MT

Consultant, Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Project Coordinator, Montana Palladium Research Initiative, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Group Leader and Participant, NASA Astrobiology Program Roadmap Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center

Consultant, Science Planning, Earth Observing System Project Science Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Visiting Scientist, United Nations Development Program, Institute for Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Member, Business Expansion/Retention, Marketing, and PR Committees, Gallatin Development Corporation, Bozeman, MT

Project Coordinator, Montana Palladium Research Initiative, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Executive Secretary, Calibration/Validation Panel, EOS Project Science Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Project Scientist, Earth Sciences Gallery, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt MD

Executive Director, Co-founder, Consortium for Analysis in Space Exploration, Baltimore MD and Dijon, France

Task and Project Manager, EER Systems Corp., on COBE, GRO, and Space Station Projects, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Deputy Director, Laboratory for Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland College Park, MD

Board Member, Outreach Center for Sustainable Building, Washington, D.C.

Board Member, LAT, Inc. (an Internet and telecommunications firm), Manhattan, MT

Chairman, Board of Trustees, Gallatin River Ranch Rural Fire District, Manhattan, MT

Funding Support

Consultant, facilitator, reviewer, editor, writer on over $200,000,000 of successful research and business proposals and cost-sharing, with sterling record supporting SBIR/STTR, BAA, and multi-entity research/engineering center proposals (NSF ERCs, NSECs, MRSECs, IGERTs, etc.). 

Publishing, Outreach, and Education

Technical editor and author of scientific and technical reports for academia, private sector, and government agencies.

Content editor and author of scientific and technical materials for lay audiences at many levels.

Consultant and Information Provider, Web site development, Integrated Program Office, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Outreach Scientist, Consortium for the International Earth Science Information Network, Washington, D.C.

Visiting Scientist, SKILL Program, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD

Advisor, Earth System Science, Challenger Center, Greenbelt, MD.

Adjunct Professor, MBA program, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

Adjunct Instructor, College of Business, Montana State University; Bozeman, MT

Conferences, Symposia, Meetings, and Workshops

Organizer, presenter, facilitator, technical workshops, meetings, conferences, and symposia in the U.S. and abroad.

Research Foci: Information transfer in biological systems; physical chemistry of biomolecules; origins of the genetic code and biochirality; nucleic acid/protein interactions; ligand control of biomacromolecular function; roles of computers in research.

Awards:  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Customer Service Excellence Award (1999)

Current Professional Memberships:  American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Senior Member), Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Senior Member), Sigma Xi.