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SNAP has become a high profile project and my contributions are now featuredin a variety of new venues. Two major TV Science programs have broadcastsegments on the SNAP project; Alan Alda’s Scientific Frontiers, and Bill Ny’s

Discovery Channel documentary on the top 100 discoveries. Both have airedlarge chunks of my design work.In addition, I am now showing up in scientific journals as co-author and am beingcited in the science press for past publications. A recent article in “Nature” is anexample. I have appeared twice in the New York Times science section, and Ihave recently released puhblication rights to a major Science TV organization for future broadcasts and programming. I have also released rights for my techillustrations to be used in an upcoming text book and as Cover Art for another upcoming book on astrophysics.In the past few years, I have co-authored more than 20 Scientific papers andposter sessions, many have been or will be presented this year. As far as I know,

none of these have been mentioned in my evaluation process, so I am includinga partial listing as an appended document.

UXO, a new client, has been characterized by very rapid iteration from idea tofield test prototypes. This unusual project has been a showcase for personal andteam skills resulting in bringing a raw concept through a rapid developmentprocess and delivering functional hardware under budget and ahead of schedule.This project has won an outstanding project of the year award from our fundingagency

TRDRP is another new client, and also a showcase for rapid, inexpensive

development from idea to, in this case, a small production run. The sensor design is a miniature air-particle sampling device to be deployed in homesaround the Bay Area. The Readout and photometry device uses multi spectralfiber optics to do spectroscopic analysis as well as distribution and particle sizemeasurements. The production run of sensors and a bench model photometryrig were taken from idea to final assembly in record time with minimal expenseand are now deployed and taking data. This project has been funded for and isnow working on a MEMS version of this instrument

GRETINA was a fast, intense study of GRETINA options and installations atseveral National Labs. Close collaboration and rapid iteration produced a tightlyfocused proposal and presentation, which was immediately successful.GRETINA upgrades are now operating on that funding.

UNDERGROUND LAB studies, another unusual project, involvedconceptualizing, modeling, and iterating a proposal for an undergroundlaboratory facility at the Homestake Mine in Lead North Dakota. The CAD modeland the associated PBS and WBS models became the basis for engineeringstudies and negotiations with the Homestake Mine and the North Dakota

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