Rad Safety

Radiation lab visitor wearing a visitor’s Landauer dosimeter badge.

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

🏛️ Associate Health Physicist

  • 2022-Present, American Academy of Health Physicists
    Completed Part 1 of the Certified Health Physicist (CHP) exam

🦺 40-HOUR OSHA HAZWOPER

  • 2020-2023, Safety Unlimited, Inc.
    Hazardous Waste and Operations Emergency Response; online 2-week training modules with tests, annual 8-HOUR refresher training.

Training

RESRAD-ONSITE/OFFSITE/BUILD

  • 2022, Argonne National Laboratory
    Online 2-week interactive seminar which included practice builds of possible model scenarios.

Geant4 Tutorial 2015

  • 2015, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    Hosted in the Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT.