
President, Chief Engineer at U.S. Science & Technology (USST)
Sacramento, California Area

President, Chief Engineer at U.S. Science & Technology (USST)
Sacramento, California Area
(Renewables & Environment industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
U.S. Science & Technology is a project development company that specializes in environmentally-sustainable waste-to-energy solutions. As Chief Engineer for the company, I provide technology oversight, manage relationships with technology partners, and communicate technical concepts to interested parties from a variety of backgrounds.
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)
June 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Raley's is a regional supermarket chain in northern California and Nevada. As the lead Architect, I formalized an enterprise architecture program, managed a small team of 3 architects, made technology selection decisions, established standards, and developed a future vision. As the Information Security Officer for Raley's, I managed a $3M Payment Card Industry (PCI) information security compliance program, wherein we validated our compliance with the PCI Data Security Standards as a Level 1 Merchant.
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)
December 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Raley's is a regional supermarket chain in northern California and Nevada. In this position, I managed a voice/data network operations team of 8 engineers serving 150 locations. I also managed telecommunications vendor relationships and an annual budget of ~ $3M. As the Information Security Officer, I developed a comprehensive ISO 17799-based Information Security Policy Manual and managed the HIPAA Security compliance program.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Civil Engineering industry)
April 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 8 months)
MWH is a global engineering and construction firm focusing primarily on water and wastewater treatment and hydroelectric power generation. I provided information technology consulting services for municipalities, including IT master plans, document management, systems integration, and software development.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years )
Computer Science professor, teaching Data Communications one evening/week for several years. Subjects included data communications fundamentals, voice, WAN, LAN, wireless, Internet, network management, and network security.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
September 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 4 months)
PhatPipe was a telecommunications service provider for the tenants of industrial real estate owners, serving the 10 largest industrial REITs in the USA. PhatPipe was featured on the cover of the April 2, 2001 issue of Telephony Magazine. As co-founder and CTO, I led network engineering, network operations, research, and product development efforts.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Environmental Services industry)
May 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 4 months)
As Director of Information Technology, I managed vendor relationships, selected technologies, managed corporate networks, updated the public web site, and set up two new offices for this environmental consulting firm. As a chemical engineer, I provided combustion engineering consulting services for a large industrial client.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Environmental Services industry)
October 1989 — May 1998 (8 years 8 months)
As a registered professional Chemical Engineer in the States of California and Washington, I provided engineering consulting services for a wide variety of combustion, chemical, nuclear, and environmental applications. I published about a dozen papers, presented at technical conferences, and I contributed to chapters in books such as the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. I also served as the Engineering Manager in the Sacramento Office, supervising up to 10 engineering consultants.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
July 1984 — September 1989 (5 years 3 months)
I worked in the Radiological Technical Division at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as a Nuclear Engineer, focusing primarily on radioactive decontamination technologies and operations. I took a 200-hour course in applied health physics (how to work safely with radioactivity) at Oak Ridge Associated University, and I took a 200-hour Navy course on the internals of the S5W reactor plant. I also wrote policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines in the form of Nuclear Power Manuals and Nuclear Power Engineering Instructions.
BS , Chemical Engineering , 1979 — 1984
Registered Professional Chemical Engineer (PE) in California.
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Washington.
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) 2004-2006.