Team Lead Technical Support
Resume:
Dr. Stephen O. Nelson
Physicist
Washington, DC 20010
*********@*****.***
Education:
Ph.D. May 2002, Physics, Duke
A.M. October 2000, Physics, Duke
Dissertation research: Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab (TUNL)
Departmental Fellowship, Henry Newson Fellowship
B.S.May, 1996, Physics, CWRU
B.A.May, 1996, English, CWRU
Presidents Scholarship Case Western Reserve University 4 years
November 2023-November 2024: AForge, LLC
Engineer for Underground Facilities Analysis Center (DTRA/DIA).
Prepared project characterizations and technical reports alongside computer models.
Experienced in IMEA and UTAS underground facilities and attack modeling systems.
Creates characterizations of underground facilities from synthesis of all-source reporting and image analysis for UGF defeat planning.
October 2021-November 2023: MELE Associates
Post-quarantine (Pentagon):
Team lead of five personnel supporting the Director for Nuclear Forensics, Energy, and Survivability Office of Nuclear Matters, OASD(NCB/NM).
Team lead for efforts to:
oAdvance interagency efforts in Nuclear Forensics and Attribution.
oPrepare technical reports on interagency Nuclear Forensics efforts.
oResume cycle of Mission Critical Report creation and review across DoD of their nuclear, biological, and chemical survivability and prepare for migration of reports to the new MARMS cataloging system.
oCoordinate DoD interests and investments in military uses of nuclear energy and prepare technical reports for the Assistant Undersecretary of Defense in charge of Nuclear Matters.
oCoordinate with DHS and other agencies for the quadrennial EMP risk assessment.
Quarantine year (DOE):
Supported NNSA at DOE, in NA-113 Office of Experimental Science.
Lead coordination support for facilities audits and monthly status updates for major facilities and projects supported by the Office of Experimental Science (OES).
Crafting and revising Standard Operating Procedures, Mission Needs Statements, and other necessary planning and facility management documents for the OES.
2017-2021: SAIC Contractor at DTRA
DTRA R&D Nuclear Technologies, Nuclear Detection Technologies (A&AS).
R&D and T&E for nuclear technology development (BAA and other program solicitations, solicitation analysis, Technical Evaluation reporting, Risk Analysis, T&E for selected projects, assisted PMs with technical management of developing projects and testing at a broad array of DTRA sites and DTRA events).
oRadiation detection and dosimetry development.
oEMP detection.
oUAS-deployment of radiation detection and mapping systems (managed UAS program for DTRA RD-NTD systems during security increases after discovery of DJI malware in drone controllers).
Development of DTRA test facilities in Albuquerque and Savannah River National Lab.
Development of new technology directions, focus, and RD-NTD strategy presentations regarding shift to battlefield nuclear warfare to align with the last Nuclear Posture Review.
2013-2017: DTRA Technical Support Groups (GS-13)
•Facilities manager for Guam and Hawai’i TSG bases in charge of refurbishment and telecommunications systems. Relocated Guam radioactive materials and detection facilities across the island between Air Force and Naval Base.
•Team lead for science. Wrote and implemented technical documents pertaining to response and technical advisement of CBRNE release events.
•Devised and implemented new training protocols and analysis reports for response teams
•Instructed Special Operations Forces on the detection and interdiction of nuclear material.
•(2015-2018) Nuclear physicist with DTRA's Pacific Technical Support Group (PTSG).
•(2013-2015) Nuclear physicist with DTRA's CENTCOM Technical Support Group (CTSG).
•Five years of experience with DTRA's CENTCOM and PACOM contingency response groups (GS).
•Advise, equip, assist, and instruct groups on radiation and nuclear-related CWMD activities and technologies and advise on nuclear incident response as the nuclear scientist within the TSGs.
•Provide technical expertise on radiation detector technology, participate in reviews of research, testing of prototypes, and mission integration of new technologies.
•Subject matter expert on radiological/nuclear threats and their detection.
•Technical advising on consequence assessment for WMDs (HPAC, IWMDT, etc.) for real-world emergency response.
•Radiation Safety Officer and Hazmat shipping technical qualifications.
•Subject matter expert on HPAC utilization for planning of counter-WMD exercises and training events.
2006-2013: Professor at UTPB. Projects:
•Research Assistant Professor, Technical and Design Plan for the $547M HT3R Project.
•Executive in the President’s Office as the Opportunities for Student Achievement and Transfer (OSAT) Director, manager of OSAT team employees for the math center, project accountants and administrators, and traveling academic advisors.
•HT3R Design responsibilities: laboratory layout and integral core feature design to maximize utility for science and engineering research
•Project planning for design plan and project scheduling technical analysis and reporting.
•Supervised creation and implementation of four new engineering degrees for the University of Texas (Mechanical, Mechanical/Nuclear-emphasis, Petroleum, and Chemical). New school of engineering has since emerged.
•Director for the Opportunities for Student Achievement and Transfer (OSAT) project, funded by the Department of Education.
•Hired professors and purchased all equipment under OSAT project to jump start four new engineering majors at UTPB, assisted in accreditation of programs, supervised math education coordinator and transfer academic advisors.
•Professor (physics, nuclear engineering).
•Radiation safety officer for university radiation-producing machines.
•Director for dual credit courses.
•Development of early-college high schools in the West Texas region.
•Summer Nuclear Program (SuNuP) for high school and college students associated with the High Temperature Teaching and Test Reactor project.
•Directed student research in radiation simulation, cosmic ray studies, and radiation detector development (coded-mask imaging).
•Director of the 23-county Permian Basin Regional Science Fair.
2002-2006: Postdoctoral Research Projects:
•Naval Research Laboratory: Development of hybrid stacked planar SiLi/HPGE Compton imaging gamma polarimeter.
•Duke/UConn: Development of optical time projection chamber technology for (g, a) reaction studies (High-Intensity g Source facility, Duke).
•Duke/UConn: Development of prototype silicon detector chamber for (g, a) measurement (HIgS).
Skills:
Project management and technical analysis. Technical writing on various engineering and program topics. Radiation detection and measurement. Consequence management modeling and planning for CBRN incidents. Nuclear weapons, nuclear imaging techniques, nuclear reactor technology, radiation detector engineering, radiation in space environments, cryogenics, high voltage engineering, electronics, C/C++, Mathematica, FORTRAN, IDL, MCNPX, processing large sets of experimental data, custom Monte-Carlo simulation techniques (and, of course, Microsoft Office such as Project and various Linux/Unix software). CAD software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, etc). Extensive experience with vacuum technology and vacuum system design, diagnostics, and instruction. Physical surveillance.
Teaching at UTPB and elsewhere:
Nuclear Engineering Laboratory (Nuclear Engineering)
Radiation and Radiation Protection (Nuclear Engineering)
Introduction to Nuclear Physics
Instructional Physics (Graduate course)
Calculus-based University Physics I & II with Lab
College Physics I Lab
Nuclear Chemistry
Special Topics in Physics (Nuclear Physics Simulation)
Special Topics in Computer Science (Monte Carlo for Nuclear Physics)
Energy Management (Nuclear Energy portion)
Radiation Protection (New Mexico Junior College, distance course)
Vacuum Technology (New Mexico Junior College, distance course)
Freshman Seminar (Engineering Freshman Interest Group)
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