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John McGhee, Ph.D. | Chief Software Architect Dr. McGhee has a broad experience base in the nuclear industry, and has spent 12 years developing advanced deterministic radiation transport codes and methods for the Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has extensive experience in radiation transport algorithm development, software engineering, and numerical modeling and simulation. Dr. McGhee received his PhD. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New Mexico, an IEEE certified computer software development professional, and an author on over 30 articles and presentations in peer reviewed journals and proceedings. |
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Todd Wareing, Ph.D. | Corporate Technology Officer
Dr. Wareing holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan. He is a recognized international leader in methods development for deterministic solutions of the radiation transport equation. During his ten years in the Transport Methods Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Wareing developed advanced spatial differencing schemes and efficient iterative solution techniques for solving the radiation transport equation on both structured and unstructured grids. He has produced more than 70 peer review technical publications. |
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Gregory Failla | Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Failla holds a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University. Prior to co-founding Transpire, he worked for several leading computer aided engineering (CAE) software providers in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, structural analysis and advanced mesh generation technologies. He has held various technical and management roles in sales, marketing, applications, technical support and quality assurance, and brings a strong background in the application of state-of-the-art CAE practices to help companies improve their product design processes and reduce time to market. |
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Allen Barnett, Ph.D. | Vice President, Software Development Dr. Barnett received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. He has worked for many years as a shielding engineer in the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, where he developed tools to simplify the analysis of radiation shielding designs. His unique expertise encompasses a wide range of computing systems and tools, solver and graphical user interface development, nuclear cross section generation and modern computer aided design (CAD) programming and applications. Dr. Barnett is an IEEE certified computer software development professional. |
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John Davies | President Mr. Davies varied experience includes working in a breadth of industries, from financial services to Department of Defense, with large corporations and as a senior level consultant for over 30 years. In conjunction with these efforts, he developed a relationship with the Santa Fe Institute, which led to a relationship with the National Laboratory system. He co-founded and was CEO, President, and/or Chairman of the Board of a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spin-off, the Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA), which was acquired. In recent years he has been mentoring several early stage start-ups. |
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Ian M. Davis | Senior Applications Engineer
Mr. Davis holds a B.S. and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University. He has extensive experience in performing radiation transport calculations with both deterministic transport methods and Monte Carlo. Prior to joining Transpire, Mr. Davis was a radiation shielding design engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. He was also the recipient of a Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program fellowship,which funded his research in applied radiation transport methods as a graduate student. |
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Alex Maslowski, Ph.D. | Senior Developer – Physics
Dr. Maslowski received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2008. His graduate work focused in the development of deterministic transport algorithms for parallel computer architectures. As a research assistant, Dr. Maslowski collaborated in the development of a C++ transport library for parallel computing applications with the Department of Energy laboratory complex. He complemented his education with internships at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he contributed to their parallel computing efforts. |
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Rick Gould | Senior Developer
Mr. Gould holds a B.A. in Physics from Bowdoin College, and M.S. in Physics from the University of Washington. He has over 25 years experience in software engineering, ranging from real-time embedded aerospace systems, to a wireless telecommunications system, to a large Naval distributed data acquisition and analysis system. He has extensive experience in rigorous software development, including system architecture, design, development, documentation, and test. He is particularly interested in software quality assurance and process improvement. |
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Jeff Mills | Build/Test Engineer
Mr. Mills holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. His studies included electromagnetic wave propagation and signal processing as well as 3D modelling and simulation. He is interested in software automation and using it to provide rapid and meaningful feedback. Mr. Mills primary role is to upgrade and streamline the software build and testing infrastructure. His other responsibilities include initial software anomaly investigation and resolution. |
