SCIENCE SPECTRUM TRAILBLAZERS
Defense Transformational Initiatives that span the full range of IT services.
Alex Luma Employment Specialist Assistant
Bronx Community College
Alex Luma is founder, president and CEO of Evolution- ary Excellence, where he creates musical instrument digital interface programs for music projects, commercials, or film post-production, and confers with producers, performers and others to achieve the desired sound for a production, among other endeavors. Luma is skilled in journalism, web design, and engineering. He expects to receive an associate degree June 2013 from Bronx Community College/City University of New York. Luma is He has received the following awards: Student Leadership in STEM, Women of Color STEM Conference; Plati- num Leadership Certificate from Bronx Community College; “Honorable Mention,” Community in STEM, Black Engineer of the Year Awards; Overwhelming Achievement Award, CUNITY Educational Summit.
Dennis Owens Manager, Research and Development Science and Engineering
Sandia National Laboratories
Dennis Owens joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2001 as a quality engineer. Since then he has worked in areas from nuclear weapons production to Advanced Concept and Technol- ogy Development programs for the Navy, Army, and Missile Defense Agency. Now, he is the manager of Defense Systems Quality Engineering, which provides R&D systems engineering, quality engineering, and quality assurance support to Sandia’s Work for Others Department of Defense agency-focused projects and programs. Owens is known at Sandia for the development of a streamlined process that organizations can use to gain ISO 9001:2008 registration, a process that his center recently used in obtaining its registration in less than half the time and cost of typical registrations. From 2005-2007, he authored several articles in the American Society for Quality’s Quality Progress magazine, focusing on quality management, defect analysis, and continuous improvement.
Donald Parrish FSR Kuwait
Aerotek
Donald Parrish has been an exemplary employee for Navistar Defense while in Kuwait. Recently, Parrish created a groundbreaking way to test the heating systems for the mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles that U.S. troops drive in war zones. At the time of Parrish’s innovation, there was a backlog of new heaters to be shipped to Kuwait. Also, there was no testing of broken heaters so the broken heaters were dis- carded and labeled as unserviceable. The procedure that was in place called for the replacement of faulty heaters with new ones, but the backlog would cause troops to go without heaters until new ones arrived. Out of a few hundred employees at the facil- ity in Kuwait, Parrish single-handedly came up with, built and implemented a solution that involved building a test station to check the serviceability of heaters before installation, so faulty heaters weren’t installed. The ability to test the functionality of these heaters also trained maintenance personnel to troubleshoot and repair the heaters and their electrical systems. Parrish’s com-
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mitment shows that he did not want U.S. troops to go without heaters, due to the backlog of new inventory.
William (Carl) Rhinehart Technical Deputy
Sandia National Laboratories
In August 2003, a young William “Carl” Carlton Rhinehart joined Sandia National Laboratories, where he was responsible for all the test inspection processes on the production floor. The floor was experiencing process inefficiency during in-process testing, creating a major bottleneck during manufacturing, and as a result of his process refinement and his aptitude for root cause analysis and problem solving, the first pass yields increased from 66 percent to 95 percent and a second pass yield of 100 percent. Today, Rhinehart is the technical deputy of the Independent Surety Assessment Group, where he is the technical lead and project manager for several programs, including the Independent Nuclear Weapon Assessment Program and Independent Surety Assessment Program. He assists the senior manager with plan- ning and managing the technical activities for five departments and 45 technical staff members.
Maureen Scott Assistant Professor
Norfolk State University
Norfolk State University Assistant Professor Maureen Scott has been mentoring and teaching undergraduates in biology for 17 years. Her professional memberships include the National Science Teacher Association, Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society, National Historian (2011-2012), National Institutes of Science, and National Microbiology Society. At the uni- versity, she instructs students in biological sciences, compara- tive anatomy, vertebrate embryology, human physiology, and anatomy and physiology through lectures and in laboratories. She is an advisor to Beta Kappa Chi National Honor Society and is a National Institutes of Science Advisor, an undergradu- ate research mentor, and an academic advisor. She has attended numerous enrichment seminars and conferences, and earned a number of research awards, including a first place award at the 2011 Emerging Researchers Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in Washington, D.C.
Sudipta Seal Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
University of Central Florida
Dr. Sudipta Seal joined University of Central Florida, (UCF), in 1997, as an assistant professor in the AMPAC (Ad- vanced Materials) Center and College of Engineering after a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Labora- tory, UC-Berkeley. Today, Seal is a professor in materials sci- ence and engineering and director of the AMPAC and Nano- science Technology Center. He is a University Distinguished Professor and has received the UCF Pegasus Professor award. Under his leadership, the center is creating impact in the field of nanosensors, nano-biomedicine, energy, and advanced materi- als development. Dr. Seal’s research involves the synthesis of catalytically active defect engineered nano-oxides, used for CMP slurries, regenerative nanomedicine, high temperature coatings, and nanoenergetics. His technology has commercialized through patents – he has 33 patents – and spin-off companies. He has graduated 16 Ph.D. and 14 master’s degree students, advised
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