Experience

Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Subject Matter Expert - Weapons Effects, Energetic and Structural Materials

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  • Originated Precision Lethality project involving high-resolution 3-D modeling of targets, very fast predictive lethality and weapon effectiveness analysis, and improved warhead design and delivery methods. This new approach was also focused on minimizing warhead costs and optimizing the type and extent of target damage. Targets included armored vehicles, radars, missile systems, boats, drones, mine fields, and apartment buildings. • Developed an original approach to quickly predict the effectiveness of small warheads. • Analyzed Russian and Ukrainian (native speaker) open literature on the best military practices and lessons learned during the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2014-present. This included advanced warhead design with multiple shaped charges. • Lead a team of experts from the UK, Canada, Australia, and the USA developing small smart warheads. • Originated a program with AFRL involving directed water plume energy vs. bridge structures. Optimized submerged charge and its position. Analyzed the use of bombs, missiles, and drones. Designed and implemented a new DoD fast-running predictive analytical tool. • Successfully worked with the Air Force Program Office in Utah on the improved arena tests for aging bombs. Analyzed experimental data, and proposed refinements to arena tests. Derived new scaling relations for the equivalent charge weight produced in different climatic conditions. Discovered and characterized the influence of atmospheric humidity and pressure on the equivalent explosive weight. • Discovered and described super-fast electromagnetic waves produced by fuzes and warheads. Found a new way of pinpointing the fuze location. • Helped younger employees understand structural dynamics, material behavior, and how to interpret results of their computer simulations. • Studied advanced proposal- and report-writing methods. These methods have significantly, at least 10 times, increased funding amounts and the satisfaction of program managers. Show less



Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Subject Matter Expert - Weapons effects and lethality

  • Feb 2003 - Jan 2020

  • Provided technical leadership in the development of BLAST (Blast LMD Assessment/Surrogation Tool) for the tri-service (US Navy, US Army, and US Air Force) Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME) Blast Working Group. Represented the US Navy. Categorized various targets for the DoD tri-service lethality and survivability communities. • Analyzed the vulnerability of missile systems, small boats, and other targets. • Worked on the railgun program. Studied deformation and strength of metals under strong electromagnetic pulses. • Invented superhard ceramic-based hypervelocity penetrators. • Developed analytical and finite element models to predict damaging resonant regimes in rail gun barrels. Invented a fiberoptic sensor system to monitor the deformation and health of the rail gun. • Proposed original conceptual design for the railgun terminal system. Performed modeling and calculations for the penetration depth of hypervelocity projectiles in the sand. The NSWCDD railgun terminal range was built based on this design. • Ran analytical, finite element, and smooth particle models. Developed a new failure criterion for fluid-filled submunitions with application to missile defense. • Evaluated SBIR proposals submitted to the Missile Defense Agency. Acted as Contracting Officer Representative to the SBIR projects including lightweight composite armor for missile canisters. • Served as a member of the Invention Evaluation Board of the NSWC, Dahlgren, VA. Show less



Office of Naval Research

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Associate Director

  • Sep 2009 - Oct 2012

  Served as the Associate Director for Global Technology Awareness at ONR’s Global office located in London, UK. Was responsible for providing a link between the US Navy Research Enterprise to overseas government, academia and global industrial activities with the focus on the former Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Turkey. This work includes technical evaluation and financial support for international conferences, visiting scientists, assigning research grants and transfer of advanced technology. Areas of technical expertise: electromagnetic rail gun, lethality and weapon effectiveness, ballistic missile defense, new polymers, composites and coatings, cost-effective manufacturing processes, advanced fiber-optics, lasers, advanced armor, underwater blasts, high-speed vessels, supercavitation, Wing-In-Ground craft or ekranoplan, material behavior of metals subjected to strong electro-magnetic pulses, advanced structural materials, armor and hypervelocity penetrators including ceramic projectiles, energetic materials, graphene. Worked with world-class scientists including Dr. A. Geim and Dr. K. Novoselov, the Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, 2010. Show less



Catawba Valley Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Instructor

  • 2001 - 2003

  Taught physics (course 131 - Mechanics, Material Properties, Fluids; 133 - Sound, Waves, Thermodynamics, Optics, Atomic Physics) Taught mathematics (060 - Essential Mathematics, 070 - Introductory Algebra, 115 - Fundamentals of Algebraic Modeling). Taught physics (course 131 - Mechanics, Material Properties, Fluids; 133 - Sound, Waves, Thermodynamics, Optics, Atomic Physics) Taught mathematics (060 - Essential Mathematics, 070 - Introductory Algebra, 115 - Fundamentals of Algebraic Modeling).



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Design Engineer

  • 2000 - 2002

  Worked as a part of an international R&D group analyzing fiber optic processes and developing next generation cables. Was actively involved in a broad range of research, development, test, evaluation, and qualification of fiber optic products. Solved complex design and manufacturing problems. Analyzed competing inventions and technologies. Within two years generated 115 invention disclosures. Was granted 21 US Patents and 16 European and Asian patents. Worked as a part of an international R&D group analyzing fiber optic processes and developing next generation cables. Was actively involved in a broad range of research, development, test, evaluation, and qualification of fiber optic products. Solved complex design and manufacturing problems. Analyzed competing inventions and technologies. Within two years generated 115 invention disclosures. Was granted 21 US Patents and 16 European and Asian patents.



AMERICAN RESEARCH CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA

• United States
• Research

• Research Scientist

  • 1996 - 2000

  Authored proposals as a Principal Investigator and prepared technical reports. Supervised engineers, developed schedules, and conducted meetings, presentations, and product demonstrations. Maintained documentation, and filed invention disclosures. Proposed new design and improved fabrication processes in the following SBIR and BAA projects: • Computer-enhanced Eddy Current Detection of Hidden Substructure Edges and Holes in Aluminum Alloys and Epoxy-Graphite Composites (for the US Air Force). Proposed and developed a highly sensitive eddy current probe. Developed algorithms for mapping and image recognition of hidden holes and objects. • Optical Alignment and Control System (for Westvaco). • High-accuracy Six-degrees-of-Freedom Robotic Positioning System based on the Stewart platform (for the National Science Foundation). • Novel Pre-deflected Axially Compressed Piezoceramic Actuator (alerting tactile device for the US Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory). • Magnetic Separation Process for Detection of Biochemical Agents (with Calspan Veridian Corp.). Developed a magnetostrictive micropositioning device for a microdetector with flow cell, and surface-sensitive diode laser (SSDL). • Novel Mesoporous Ceramic Membranes and Ultrafiltration Techniques using Chelating Agents (for the US. Dept. of Energy). • Ceramic-to-Metal Laser-assisted Joining of Infrared and Radio-frequency Windows (for the US Naval Air Warfare Center). • Laser Brazing of Electrically Conductive, High-temperature, Graphite-to-Refractory Metal Joints (for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). • Laser Crystallization of Spin-on Ferroelectric Thin Films for non-volatile Random Access Memories (for National Science Foundation). • New Chromium-III-based Corrosion-resistant Coatings for Aluminum Alloys (for the US Navy aging aircraft). Show less



Virginia Tech

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Research Associate

  • 1994 - 1996

  Performed nonlinear finite element modeling of impact with sliding interfaces and failure mode II to mode I transition in pre-notched steel plates. Used 2-D rate-dependent elastic-thermoviscoplastic material models. 3-D modeling (DYNA3D) of reverse buckling phenomena in elastic-plastic plates made of a material with strain and strain rate hardening, thermal softening, and randomly distributed defects. Proposed and demonstrated via finite element simulation (contact-impact model with deformable boundaries sliding with friction and erosion), that high-speed ceramic rods exhibit self-sharpening and multiple impacts, and can perforate steel and tungsten targets (“Penetration/Perforation of Aluminum, Steel and Tungsten Plates by Ceramic Rods,” 1998, Int. J. Computers and Structures, vol. 66/5, pp. 571-583, and "Penetration of Steel Plates by Long Ceramic Rods," Metallurgical and Material Applications of Shock-Wave and High-Strain-Rate Phenomena, 1995, pp. 543-550). Trained students to use DYNA2D and UNIX system on computer workstations, and graded homework assignments. Show less



Brown University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scientist

  • 1992 - 1993

  Investigated dynamic instability and transient chaos in thin-walled structures. Shared ideas with Professor Paul Symonds. Investigated dynamic instability and transient chaos in thin-walled structures. Shared ideas with Professor Paul Symonds.



Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

• Ukraine
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Staff Analyst

  • 1990 - 1991

  Worked at the management Department of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Science and technology assessment. Collected and analyzed data on research programs conduced in the Institutes of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, wrote a part of the Academy annual report. Worked at the management Department of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Science and technology assessment. Collected and analyzed data on research programs conduced in the Institutes of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, wrote a part of the Academy annual report.



Specialized Technological-Design Bureau, Institute of Geophysics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

• Kiev, Ukraine

• Process Engineer

  • 1990 - 1991

  Worked at the Dept. of Technologies for Oil and Gas Exploration, Specialized Technological-Design Bureau of the Institute of Geophysics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR Performed modeling of dynamic stress in thick multi-layered tubes. Used linear shape charges to cut and perforate oil wells. Supervised a team of engineers. Worked at the Dept. of Technologies for Oil and Gas Exploration, Specialized Technological-Design Bureau of the Institute of Geophysics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR Performed modeling of dynamic stress in thick multi-layered tubes. Used linear shape charges to cut and perforate oil wells. Supervised a team of engineers.



Institute for Problems of Strength, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

• Research Scientist

  • 1982 - 1991

  Dept. of Dynamic Strength under Mechanical and Thermal Loads, Institute for Problems of Strength Worked on R&D projects with Kyiv Aircraft Corporation and Rocket-Space Design Bureau “Yuzhmash”. Authored reports on hydro-impulsive processing and thin-sheet metal forming of the missile, aircraft, and automobile panels. Designed a new high-strength coal cutter. Analyzed unusual failure modes in superhard materials. Tested materials for static failure and ultrasonic fatigue. Developed high-level finite difference structural dynamics and CFD FORTRAN codes including ALE method with adaptive mesh for underwater explosion, metal forming, and aerodynamics. Modeled air-parachute interactions and supersonic flow around a projectile. Proposed new models of cavitating fluid for underwater explosions. Discovered, studied, and explained a new mechanical phenomenon - reverse buckling of impulsively loaded structures such as sheet metal and panels. Submitted Discovery application “Phenomenon and Regularities of Reverse Elastic-Plastic Snap-Buckling of Impulsively Loaded Thin Structural Elements” in the area of Mechanics. Awarded a Diploma of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences for a series of publications on the Dynamics of Thin Plates Deforming into Shells of Revolution (1986). Co-authored 1 book, 9 refereed journal articles, and obtained 5 patents of the USSR. Show less