Facilitator
Ronald Hoard
Ronald Hoard's Training:
Winner of the 2009 Micro-encapsulation ideaconnection challenge.
Division Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Multiple Group Leadership positions at Livermore National Laboratory
Division Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Multiple Group Leadership positions at Livermore National Laboratory
Ronald Hoard's Experience:
Professional Timeline Summary
2013 – Present
Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer CH2M Hill Richland, WA
• Authored CSER involving the transport of 45 casks containing 4 kg each of plutonium fuel rods.
• Authored CSER for the storage and processing of fissile material waste containers in the T-Plant facility.
• Wrote the “Radioactive Shielding Analysis” chapter for transporting the STP shipping casks containing 4,000 Curies of spent fuel sludge.
2009 – 2013 CH2M Hill Richland, WA
Senior Nuclear & Transportation Safety Engineer
• Lead project engineer for authoring the shipping safety documents to transport spent fuel rods to an interim storage facility.
• Authored the shipping approval documents for the PNNL radium bromide transport to the Hanford burial grounds,
2008 – Present IdeaConnection.com & Innocentive.com Internet Based
Inventor & Engineering Consultant
• These are freelance invention/idea websites. I won one of their international invention contests in 2009.
2006-2008 HAP Investments Dublin, CA
Commercial Real Estate Investor
2004-2006 Blaze Network Products Dublin, CA
Director of Mechanical Engineering
• Developed an optics test and characterization station for micro-lens arrays using LabView, precision stepper motors, and contour sur¬face mapping software.
1978-2004 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA
A National Laboratory operated by The Department of Energy
Applied Research Engineering Division Leader- 1994-2004
• Developed a $20M/yr new startup program by partnering with Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory to provide the mechanical engi¬neering design and fabrication on their B-Factory experiment.
• Managed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s nuclear and precious metals inventory.
• Developed magnetic sensor arrays for underground imaging of covert objects (such as weapons caches and drug traf¬ficking tun¬nels) and underwater submarine detection Result: NAV Ocean and South Korean Navy award.
• Developed overall division budget (about $1.25M/yr), and ensured maintenance of proper staffing levels (about 250 employees).
• Liaised between the division and higher management: influenced senior management across multiple organizations; provided input to and communicated organizational vision.
Various Project Engineering/ Program Management Positions 1978-2004 also at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Directed the effort to create advanced wire composite components for the Star Wars missile defense program Result: The So¬viet Union lost the cold war (via near financial bankruptcy) trying to keep up with our technology.
• Used optimization technology to design minimum-volume superconducting magnets for the national magnet fu¬sion program Re¬sult: Significant cost savings in developing these coils, similar techniques now used to design medical MRI imaging magnets. Created novel new designs approaching 20-Tesla with 1-meter bores.
• Project engineer on the successful design, construction and launch of a 1500 lb payload high-altitude balloon pro¬ject slated for a minimum altitude of 80,000 ft which flew to 106,000 ft.
• Project engineer for the design and testing of an advanced high-field electromagnet that uses special rare-earth ele¬ment inserts to increase the resulting magnetic field strength. Result: The field increased from 12 to 15.5 Tesla, this concept is still being used in the National High Field Magnet Laboratory at the University of Florida, Talla¬hassee, FL.
• Project engineer for designing and developing a lawnmower sized magnetic anomaly detection array for finding cov¬ert underground tunnels and weapons caches. Result: Passed all performance tests, currently in use by the De¬partment of Defense.
• Project engineer for the design, fabrication and testing of a liquid helium II refrigerator. Results: Tests met all de¬sign specifications.
• Project engineer for designing a magnetic gradiometer sensor. Result: During its performance test the device uninten¬tionally detected electromagnet waves from the San Francisco area Mendocino County earthquake back in 1994. It detected these signals several hours before the earthquake!
• Completed white paper study for the FBI on new innovations in remote sensing technologies.
• Won Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory technical excellence award in 2003.
2013 – Present
Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer CH2M Hill Richland, WA
• Authored CSER involving the transport of 45 casks containing 4 kg each of plutonium fuel rods.
• Authored CSER for the storage and processing of fissile material waste containers in the T-Plant facility.
• Wrote the “Radioactive Shielding Analysis” chapter for transporting the STP shipping casks containing 4,000 Curies of spent fuel sludge.
2009 – 2013 CH2M Hill Richland, WA
Senior Nuclear & Transportation Safety Engineer
• Lead project engineer for authoring the shipping safety documents to transport spent fuel rods to an interim storage facility.
• Authored the shipping approval documents for the PNNL radium bromide transport to the Hanford burial grounds,
2008 – Present IdeaConnection.com & Innocentive.com Internet Based
Inventor & Engineering Consultant
• These are freelance invention/idea websites. I won one of their international invention contests in 2009.
2006-2008 HAP Investments Dublin, CA
Commercial Real Estate Investor
2004-2006 Blaze Network Products Dublin, CA
Director of Mechanical Engineering
• Developed an optics test and characterization station for micro-lens arrays using LabView, precision stepper motors, and contour sur¬face mapping software.
1978-2004 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA
A National Laboratory operated by The Department of Energy
Applied Research Engineering Division Leader- 1994-2004
• Developed a $20M/yr new startup program by partnering with Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory to provide the mechanical engi¬neering design and fabrication on their B-Factory experiment.
• Managed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s nuclear and precious metals inventory.
• Developed magnetic sensor arrays for underground imaging of covert objects (such as weapons caches and drug traf¬ficking tun¬nels) and underwater submarine detection Result: NAV Ocean and South Korean Navy award.
• Developed overall division budget (about $1.25M/yr), and ensured maintenance of proper staffing levels (about 250 employees).
• Liaised between the division and higher management: influenced senior management across multiple organizations; provided input to and communicated organizational vision.
Various Project Engineering/ Program Management Positions 1978-2004 also at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Directed the effort to create advanced wire composite components for the Star Wars missile defense program Result: The So¬viet Union lost the cold war (via near financial bankruptcy) trying to keep up with our technology.
• Used optimization technology to design minimum-volume superconducting magnets for the national magnet fu¬sion program Re¬sult: Significant cost savings in developing these coils, similar techniques now used to design medical MRI imaging magnets. Created novel new designs approaching 20-Tesla with 1-meter bores.
• Project engineer on the successful design, construction and launch of a 1500 lb payload high-altitude balloon pro¬ject slated for a minimum altitude of 80,000 ft which flew to 106,000 ft.
• Project engineer for the design and testing of an advanced high-field electromagnet that uses special rare-earth ele¬ment inserts to increase the resulting magnetic field strength. Result: The field increased from 12 to 15.5 Tesla, this concept is still being used in the National High Field Magnet Laboratory at the University of Florida, Talla¬hassee, FL.
• Project engineer for designing and developing a lawnmower sized magnetic anomaly detection array for finding cov¬ert underground tunnels and weapons caches. Result: Passed all performance tests, currently in use by the De¬partment of Defense.
• Project engineer for the design, fabrication and testing of a liquid helium II refrigerator. Results: Tests met all de¬sign specifications.
• Project engineer for designing a magnetic gradiometer sensor. Result: During its performance test the device uninten¬tionally detected electromagnet waves from the San Francisco area Mendocino County earthquake back in 1994. It detected these signals several hours before the earthquake!
• Completed white paper study for the FBI on new innovations in remote sensing technologies.
• Won Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory technical excellence award in 2003.
Ronald Hoard's Experience with Online Groups:
Division and group leadership positions.