Rowena
Argall – Consultant Faculty |
| Ms. Argall possesses over twenty-two years of experience in radiation protection and radiochemistry and is widely recognized for her expertise as a trainer in the areas of; internal dosimetry, radiochemistry, and gamma spectroscopy. Many may know her as the former Manager of Training for CANBERRA, and most recently as the Manager of Radiochemistry and Training Services for SEG. |
Gary
Collett - Training Faculty/Support Engineer |
Mr. Collett has over 30 years experience in Computer Programming, Database Management and Health Physics Instrumentation. He has 10 years direct HIS-20 Management and Operations experience.
Mr. Collett is presently responsible for CANBERRA’s primary support for HIS-20 support contract customers. He’s developed QA test cases to improve the release quality and has assisted with development of HIS-20 training materials. Mr. Collett also provides on-site installation and troubleshooting assistance. |
Michael A. Diaz - Training Faculty/Support Engineer |
Mr. Diaz holds a B.S. degree (1986) in Physics, with minors in Math and Computer Science, from the DePaul University of Chicago. He was a laboratory and teaching assistant for DePaul’s Physics Department, assisting with courses in digital and analog electronics, computer interfacing, microelectronics, general physics and astronomy. He worked as a computer science and math teacher for two private schools while finishing his degree.
Mr. Diaz is principally responsible for the organization and development of the Genie VMS gamma spectroscopy applications courses and seminars. Aside from his training responsibilities, he customizes the Genie gamma spectroscopy applications for customers on a consulting basis. Mr. Diaz also provides telephone support for Software Service customers and Field Service engineers.
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| Michael J. Geenty – Training
Faculty/Support Engineer |
Mr. Geenty holds an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Electrical Instrumentation from Hartford State Technical College. He has continued his education in the fields of business and computer science at local colleges. He holds a NICET certification as an AET and is a member of the Enterprise Computing Association (ENCOMPUS). Mr. Geenty has been employed at CANBERRA since March of 1977 and has held positions as Instrument & System Test Technician, Field Service Engineer, Customer Engineer, Associate Software Engineer responsible for VMS System Management and Training/Technical Support Engineer.
Mr. Geenty is principally responsible for management of the training and technical support services for Canberra’s domestic Customer Service division. |
David
W. Groff - Senior Health Physicist |
Mr. Groff received a B.A. degree in Physics from Oberlin College in 1978. He was employed as a Health Physicist by Radiation Management Corporation from 1978 to 1983, then by Canberra Industries from 1983 to the present. His primary responsibilities have required calibration and operation of numerous gamma spectroscopy systems, including various types of in vivo counters using the Abacos family of software packages. He has over 25 years of experience in radiological characterization of contaminated sites, including in situ gamma spectroscopy measurements using ISOCS and other calibration techniques. He has prepared numerous formal reports, procedures, and technical manuals in support of these activities.
Mr. Groff's current position is Senior Health Physicist for the Canberra Training and Technical Services group. He shares responsibility for coordinating and providing a variety of on-site measurement, calibration, and consulting services. His current training responsibilities include the Abacos whole body counting and ISOCS applications courses.
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| Frank Liptak - Senior Scientist, Database Products |
| Mr. Liptak recieved a B.S.Ed from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and A.A.S. in Data Processing from Beaver County Community College in 1981. Mr. Liptak was a Chemical Analyst, Chemist and Radiochemist at Beaver Valley Power Station where he was employed for over 15 years. Since joining Canberra in 1996, he has worked as a Senior Database Software Engineer and worked on the development of OpenCDM and OpenEMS. He currently provides support for OpenCDM and Apex. |
| Richard M. Machado – Scientist/NDA
Specialist |
| Mr. Machado received a B.S. degree in health physics in 1991 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Richard has several years of experience at Department of Energy sites, operating environmental and bioassay laboratories. Mr. Machado has worked for CANBERRA four years and is currently an NDA Scientist out of the Denver, CO office. Mr. Machado is primarily responsible for technical support, project management, and training for non-destructive assay equipment utilizing NDA 2000, Gamma Waste Assay System (GWAS), and In Situ Object Counting System (ISOCS) software products. |
| Eric McKamey – Certified
Health Physicist |
Mr. McKamey has over 20 years experience in Applied Health Physics and Radiological Engineering and over 10 years experience providing Radiation Safety Training.
Mr. McKamey is primarily responsible for providing Internal Dosimetry and Gamma Spectroscopy training as well as the National Registry for Radiation Protection Technologist (NRRPT) Preparation Training.
Mr. McKamey graduated with a B.S. in Radiation Protection Technology from Thomas Edison State College and an M.S. in Health Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also certified by The American Board of Health Physics as a Certified Health Physicist. |
William
Pyle - Senior Scientist, Database Products |
Mr. Pyle joined CANBERRA in 1990 and has worked in database engineering and support since that time. He is the principle designer of OpenCDM and supervised development and customization for all the CANBERRA database products at one time or another. Currently, Mr. Pyle holds a certification as an Oracle database administrator for Oracle 8, 8i, and 9i. He is also one of the designers of CANBERRA’s new Apex software product.
Prior to working for CANBERRA, Mr. Pyle was a chemistry supervisor for Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company. During his six years at Wolf Creek, he was in charge of Chemistry computers and count room equipment and all chemistry calibrations. Before entering the nuclear industry, he worked for an EPA contractor supervising the production and quality control of water soluble organic hazardous materials standards. During this time, he also programmed robots for laboratory tasks.
Mr. Pyle also worked in the forensic sciences for four years in his home state of Kansas. As an evening job, he taught introductory college Chemistry during this time for Barton County Community College.
Mr. Pyle received a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1976 from Emporia State University. He has taken a number of graduate classes in Nuclear Chemistry and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University while working at Wolf Creek.
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Terrence Schwager – Training Faculty, Support Engineer |
Mr. Schwager joined the Training and Technical Support Department of Canberra Industries in Meriden Connecticut in 2003.
He is responsible in providing Customer Training and Technical support on hand-held Health Physics Radiation Monitoring (RMS) Equipment (including the Ultra Radiac and the ADM300 survey meters) as well as specialized systems (including the CAM100 series, the PGM100 series, RADACS and MOVERS100).
Prior to working for Canberra Industries, Mr. Schwager worked for Aptec-NRC (the former Nuclear Research Corporation) for many years where he provided Radiation Safety Protection Training, perform radiation surveys and monitoring of facilities and personnel monitoring.
He also helped to generate Radiation Monitoring (RMS) equipment test procedures and technical manuals as well as training on the RMS equipment.
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Warren
R. Western, Ph.D
Training Faculty/Sr. Scientist
Database Products |
Dr. Western has been employed with CANBERRA since 1979, and is currently responsible for supporting the OpenEMS and OpenCDM software for nuclear power plants. He has also supported the Count Room Applications product and assisted with the administration of INGRES and Oracle relational databases. He has also been involved with the software development of several of the VAX applications. These applications include the analysis of gamma-ray spectra, whole body counting, neutron activation analysis, and for scanning of nuclear waste containers. For nuclear power plant applications, he designed and coded most of the dose calculations used in the original effluent software and many of the customizations included in the Effluent Management software. Currently he is involved in the design and development of the next generation OpenEMS effluent management software that preceded OpenEMS. He has also supported the Count Room Applications Software and has been consulted in the development of APEX the next generation gamma spectroscopy count room software. Seminars he has given include one on detector theory and on using Crystal Reports with OpenCDM.
Dr. Western holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from Iowa State University. After obtaining a Ph.D. in 1976, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Nuclear Chemistry Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research projects included the study and characterization of the decay of short-lived fission products, a collective model of deformed even-even nuclides, a systematic study of highly retarded M4 transitions in 201Po, a measurement of the neutron flux as a function of energy at a research reactor and the development of software for analyzing list data from gamma-gamma coincidence experiments. He is a member of the American Physical Society. Since joining CANBERRA he has taken courses in Oracle database administration and Visual Basic programming to improve support of the database related products. |
