Manager Development

Peter W. Atkinson, M.S., Ph.D./ABD

**** ******* *****; Annandale, VA 22003 +1-703-***-**** P abnx15@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Innovation and Opportunity Development Agent

Serial visionary and innovator who routinely identifies next-generation market demands and produces and

delivers achievable and integrated strategic, tactical, and technical solutions to meet those demands.

Strong capability to foresee customer expectations and market movements ; rapidly conceive of new

technologies and approaches which will meet those expectations and create a first-mover position;

dynamically reconfigure resources across organizational lines without disruptions to implement new

technologies and approaches; and to develop or restructure key strategic partnerships to help drive the

enterprise to sustainable market leadership while maintaining focus on core capabilities, minimizing costs

and dominating competitors. Capability is scale-invariant and operationally very broad.

Professional Summary

Physical chemist with significant and ongoing experience in national and international technology and

business innovation and development; enterprise, program, and project management; engineering and

systems integration; threat and vulnerability analysis; requirements and gap analysis / research needs

definition and solutions concept and program development; physical, biologi cal and medical sciences

RDDT&E; AI-supported software applications development; and enterprise private equity financing,

start-up, and management at senior and executive management levels.

Professional Experience

2000 – 2012

Interface Dynamics Control Corporation (IDCC) (Alexandria, VA and Budapest, Hungary)

Chairman & President

IDCC was tasked with the discovery of revolutionary new means to resolve the major psychological

disorders and the immune and degenerative disorders, with a focus on cancer and on Parkinson’s and

Alzheimer’s diseases. That charter was expanded after September 11, 2001 to encompass discovery of

new means to detect, threat-qualify, and interdict terrorists and violent criminals in a real -time, non-

contact manner without recourse to conventional approaches, including biometrics and imaging. Those

tasks were completed in the fourth quarter of 2012. Additional activities at IDCC included:

Served, on a consulting basis, as Director, U.S. Operations for Synergon Informatika Nyrt. and for

KFKI Group Rt., both based in Budapest, Hungary. Developed first contract with a U.S. company

(Jabil Circuits) for Synergon and first U.S. strategic partnership for KFKI (Computer Sciences

Corporation), and additional opportunities in Canada and Central Europe for both.

As a consultant, evaluated technologies and start-up enterprises for the Hungarian Innovative

Technology fund and for T-Ventures Hungary (a subsidiary of T-Venture Holding GmbH), protecting

both from ill-conceived technology investments.

Developed, encoded, and deployed advanced signal-processing and analysis algorithms for real-time

extraction of signals from complex mixed-emitter emissions to produce actionable knowledge.

Produced real-time, artificially intelligent enterprise evolution and operations management system

incorporating and fusing Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints and enabling significant

increases in the efficiency and effectiveness of that enterprise’s consulting engagements for a private

client doing business with the Department of Defense

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Counter-terrorism and crime prevention approach to remote, real-time detection and interdiction

deemed innovative and unique by technical staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),

and DHS requested an unsolicited proposal under 48 CFR 15, Subpart 15.6.

1994 – 2000

ALIAS Group, Incorporated (Alexandria, VA)

Chairman & President

Managed start-up, business development, entire programs’ life-cycles, and corporate functions for this

technology consulting enterprise.

Developed detection and communications technology solution for covert real-time notification of

authorities of illegal environmental dumping for the California EPA’s Office of Enforcement (“Best

technology solution.” – Dr. Gerald Johnson, CAL EPA)

Developed a new non-contact approach to optimizing encapsulation of radioactive wastes in glass

(vitrification) and glass production; designed electro-optical system for deployment (“First new idea in

20 years” – Westinghouse Savannah River Site Principal Engineer)

Developed new non-contact measurement concept and transferred related technology to L’Oreal

(Paris) via L’Oreal’s head of R&D (worldwide) for applications in skin moisturization research

Designed unique advanced artificial wetland for acid mine drainage remediation (‘Best design in the

industry’ - James L. Corsaro,, Chairman, ITT Corporation / WV - client)

Developed new applications for an advanced meteor burst communications system and secured initial

contract with the USAF’s Rome Laboratory for antenna signature reduction (as an investor / consultant

with BroadCom, Inc.)

Designed a control system for a new electric plasma torch vitrification technology to be used for

treating mixed radioactive and hazardous wastes and produced required technical and operational

documentation (Mountain States Engineering, Inc. / USDOE)

Designed, built and installed a ‘universal’ new-technology signals and control interface in a DOE test

facility at Idaho Falls (under contract to SAIC)

Demonstrated opportunity for savings of more than $11 billion in mortgage and operations costs for

the Department of Energy’s Decontamination & Decommissioning Focus Area through the

application of discrete element process simulations and business process re-engineering techniques

Served as Director of Advanced Programs for Mississippi State University’s College of Engineering /

Diagnostic Instrumentation & Analysis Laboratory (DIAL) (as a consultant; 1994 – 1998)

Supported SRI International’s business and technology development efforts in the areas of airborne

hyperspectral imaging, telemedicine, advanced meteor burst communications, biometric technologies,

and communications from disadvantaged communications environments

Invited program and proposal reviewer, U.S. Department of Energy

1992 – 1994

BDM International (McLean, Virginia)

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Principal and Program Manager

Served as Program Manager for the highest-visibility program in BDM’s Environmental Sciences

Directorate.

Managed inter-corporate team (SAIC / BDM / WPI) performing technology assessments, program

and proposal reviews and advisories for the Department of Energy’s Science & Technology

Directorate’s (EM-50) Mixed (Radiological / Hazardous) Waste Integrated Program; received two

commendations for excellence (Drs. Paul W. Hart and Stanley Wolf, HQ/USDOE)

Coordinated with management of research and engineering programs at DOE National Laboratories,

from the level of Laboratory Directors to Project Managers, and with private-sector and academic

contractors, as HQ/DOE’s lead technology consultant for management and treatment of mixed

radiological and hazardous wastes

Responsible for developing comprehensible and effective briefings of advanced technology and

engineering developments and issues to Government executives, Members of Congress, and

stakeholders to generate desired levels of understanding and cooperation

Represented the United States at the NATO Advanced Studies Workshop for Envir onmental

Remediation in Visegrád, Hungary

1989 – 1994

PRG, Incorporated (Falls Church, Virginia)

Senior Scientist

Technical intelligence research group formed by former senior executives of the Central Intelligence

Agency. Reported to S. Eugene Poteat, President.

Developed biotechnology conceptual framework and specific approach for covert eradication of

cocaine production (in support an Office of National Drug Control Policy initiative

Developed new concepts and inventions for national and homeland security and for commercial

applications; this included signals intelligence and analysis and operational security elements of

NASA’s SETI / MOP program

1985 – 1994

Maitreya Systems, Inc. (MSI) (Secaucus, NJ and Bozeman, MT)

Chairman & President

Served as Chief Executive for all aspects of the start-up of this privately-funded enterprise.

Developed core technologies for MSI’s market differentiating in situ bioremediation process control

approach

Raised more than $1 million in pre-revenue seed capital; took enterprise to IPO registration

Secured first contracts for MSI / won competitive Montana Science & Technology Alliance grant

Recruited professional staff for MDI (MSI subsidiary) targeted by Weyerhaeuser Company for

acquisition based on excellence of staff and technical capabilities

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Designed and deployed most advanced priority organic pollutants analysis laboratory in the northwest

U.S., housed in the Montana State University Advanced Technology Park (lead tenant)

Delivered invited testimony to The Future of Bioremediation (U.S. Senate Biotechnology Hearing)

1978 – 1985

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (McLean, Virginia)

Staff Scientist / Manager / Division Manager (Interim)

Managed and performed contracts for reverse engineering of Soviet optical directed energy weapons

(DEW) systems; nuclear weapons effects simulation and physical device testing; and technology analysis

and R&D development needs for chemical and biological warfare defense. Initiated business

development and marketing campaigns, wrote proposals, developed and delivered presentations, and

managed performance on the resulting contracts.

Interim Division Manager, Electro-Optics Technology Division (1984 – 1985); Manager. E-O

Technology Laboratory (1983 – 1985); Ph.D. level science and engineering staff)

Principal Investigator for nuclear weapon thermal pulse simulator (Defense Special Weapons Agency / BMD

Command); Test Director for SAIC Thermal Test facility

Principal Investigator and Principal Author for Long Range Chemical Defense Development Plan

(LRCDDP) (sponsored by the Life Support SPO, WPAFB, USAF)

Co-Principal Investigator, Counter-Countermeasures to Directed Energy Weapons (U.S. Army)

Developed new business in the area of remote detection of chemical and biological warfare agents

(U.S. Army CSL); co-authored a report on the fundamental physical performance limitations of remote

sensing devices

Principal Investigator, Instrumentation and Methods for Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)

Performed analyses, modeling and research needs determinations in the areas of secondary and

tertiary enhanced oil recovery (thermal, CO2, polymer, water) and advanced energy conversion

systems; developed analytical model of tertiary enhanced oil recovery processes

Chairman and President, Concerned Citizens Forum, a 501(c)(3) foundation targeting development of

U.S. support to the anti-Soviet Afghan resistance through educational activities on Capitol Hill and

through collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières; featured on C-SPAN broadcasts

Member, Corporate Technical Advisory & Business Development Group

1972 – 1978

George Washington University (GWU) (Washington, D.C.)

Senior Research Assistant / Research & Clinical Trial Laboratory Manager

Supported research efforts in the detection and isolation of tumor associated antigens. Introduced new

separation techniques and secured advanced separations devices and instrumentation. Developed and

applied advanced immunochemical techniques.

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Manager, Lung Cancer Research Laboratory (reporting to the Director, Laboratory for Virus & Cancer

Research; managed and directed Ph.D.-level staff)

Responsible for biological vaccine production for Phase I and Phase II Clinical Trials for late stage lung

cancer treatment – realizing five-year survival rates of 83%. Awarded citation from Ottawa General

Hospital for saving patients’ lives (Dr. T.H.M. Stewart, Chief, Nuclear Medicine)

Acquired and applied micro-capillary isotachophoresis equipment for its first application in cancer

research in assessment of antigen purity; acquired the equipment through a competitive institutional

laboratory equipment grant

Consultant to Roswell Park Memorial Institute (Buffalo, NY) and M. D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor

Institute (Houston, TX) for cancer vaccine research, production and application technology transfer

Developed and implemented a physicochemical approach to effect the first separation and

characterization of microbiological metachromatic granules (volutin); (published in Journal of

Bacteriology)

Executed all phases of development and application of a radioimmunoassay for human melanoma

Invited lecturer, National Cancer Institute / Laboratory for Immunodiagnosis; Invited reviewer on behalf

of the National Cancer Institute

EDUCATION

M.S. – Physical Chemistry { Ph.D. (ABD) } Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Research Area: Energy transfer pathways and mechanisms in hetero-atomic (molecular) systems;

designed low-field nuclear magnetic resonance instrument for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP)

B.S. – Chemistry George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

MILITARY SERVICE / CLEARANCE / COMPUTERS / OTHER

Military Service: U.S. Army (Viet Nam veteran); honorably discharged

Clearance: Top Secret / SBI / SCI (inactive > 2 years)

Computer Skills: MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Project, PowerPoint); MS Visio; National

Instrument’s LabView; MathCAD / SimuLink; AI expert system development and de ployment (IDCS);

C++; ArcGIS (limited); COMSOL Multiphysics (novice); Visual Basic (limited); JAVA (novice)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Physical Society (APS);

Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

(IEEE); Sigma Xi; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Inactive: Optical Society

of America; American Chemical Society; American Society for Microbiology

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