I graduated from Brigham Young University – Idaho (BYU-I) with a Mechanical Engineering bachelor’s degree. After graduation, I worked for 4 years at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) as a Reactor and Experiment Operator for the Advanced Test Reactor. In this career I followed a rigorous qualification process to learn the nuclear test reactor systems and plant operations and became qualified as an Experiment Operator for monitoring, control, and installation of experiments in the test reactor. I was also qualified as a Reactor Operator and performed routine reactor refueling activities and SNM handling operations.

After 4 years at INL I decided I wanted to make fuller use of my engineering degree and ended up coming to Livermore in early 2016 to join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a Hardware/Mechanical Engineer in the Nuclear Materials Engineering group. Since 2016 I have supported this group full time and have evolved from a Hardware Engineer into a Project Engineer, Project Manager, and am also currently the Deputy Associate Program Leader for the group. I have overseen the design, manufacture, work control, installation, and commissioning of several room scale projects within the Superblock that contain gloveboxes and safety systems to safely handle special nuclear material (SNM). I have become a Glovebox Subject Matter Expert in that time and am an active member of the American Glovebox Society.

Superblock projects I have worked on, since joining LLNL, include the design and installation of the Recovery Laboratory support equipment and custom fire suppression system, the High-Z laboratory room ventilation system, and numerous other glovebox design and installation projects.

BS Mechanical Engineering, BYU-Idaho

American Glovebox Society member since 2017