LEADERSHIP & TEAM BUILDING

• Currently at UH, managing a group of 24 members (11 Graduate Students, two Research Faculty, five Research Scientists, one post-doc, three Engineers, one Safety Manager and one Facility/Business Director)
• Created and led SuperPower’s second-generation High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) program from 1995 onwards. Built and managed a team of 40+ high-performance personnel and led company to multiple word firsts and world records in thin film HTS tape.
• Led organization to a ranking of #1 or #2 for eight years since 2002 among all technology developers in the U.S. by an independent Peer review panel under the auspices of the U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Delivery. #1 ranking in most recent Peer reviews (2010 and 2009) among 14 contenders.
• Led the completion of the world’s first significant delivery (10,000 m) of thin film HTS tape to build a 30 m cable for the DOE Flagship program of Albany Cable Project, which is the world’s first demonstration of a thin film superconducting cable in the electric power grid.
• Established and managed Cooperative Research Agreements with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory and collaborations with Naval Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, NIST, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Established and managed research agreements with U. Florida, U. Albany, Cambridge University, Ohio State University, Florida State University, University of Wisconsin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Colorado State University.