I have served in niche radiation safety roles and took part in specialized training to advance and apply my health physics knowledge and skill sets.
Roles
🏫 Mount Holyoke College
- 2023-Present Radiation Safety Committee Member
Representative on behalf of the Department of Physics to consider potential radiological risks on campus and managing department source inventory.
🏢 Geosyntec Consultants
- 2021-Present Chair, Radiological Focus Group
Founded the Radiological Focus Group, a group of professionals experienced with radiological projects charged with providing expert health physics and radiation safety guidance.
- 2020-Present Senior Staff Radiation Scientist, New England Operations
Primarily assessing radiological data and authoring Final Status Survey Reports to release portions of cleanup sites from radiological licensing.
🏫 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 2016-2020 Certified Radioisotope Worker
Completed annual safety trainings, assisted with routine radiological surveillance and sweeps, instructed new lab members in radiation safety of laboratory sources and operation of the neutron generator.
Certifications
🏛️ American Academy of Health Physicists
- 2022-Present Associate Health Physicist
Completed Part 1 of the Certified Health Physicist (CHP) exam
🦺 Safety Unlimited, Inc.
- 2020-2023 40-HOUR OSHA HAZWOPER
Hazardous Waste and Operations Emergency Response; online 2-week training modules with tests, similar 8-HOUR refresher training annually thereafter.
Training
⚛ Argonne National Laboratory
- 2022 RESRAD-ONSITE, RESRAD-OFFSITE, and RESRAD-BUILD
Online 2-week interactive seminar which included practice builds of possible model scenarios.
⚛ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- 2015 Geant4 Tutorial 2015
Hosted in the Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT.