Senior Research Technician at the Ames Laboratory for 17+ years, specializing in Optimal Pressure Gas Atomization and the many functions that drive it. Specialties also include production of rare earth metals, bottom pour chill-casting, arc-melting, plasma arc spraying of ceramic and quasi-crystalline media and a myriad of metal powder handling, processing and characterization techniques. I work with some of the best people you could ever hope to surround yourself with. To say I love my job would be an understatement in the most grandiose way.