Todd Samuel

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Richland, WA 99352
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Biography

Todd Samuel joined Battelle\PNNL in 1996 from Westinghouse Hanford Company, where he was a project manager and senior plant engineer for 12 years.

Todd has been the manager of PNNL's Technology Planning & Deployment Group (49 scientists and engineers) in the Energy & Environmental Science & Technology Directorate for the past 5 years. Todd leads business operations at offices in both Richland, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He has over 25 years of experience in the areas of project management, technology development and field deployment, systems testing, data acquisition and control, and business development.

In his previous assignment at Battelle\PNNL, Todd was a program manager in the Mechanical Engineering & Robotic Systems Group for 7 years, where he successfully led the development and field deployment of several automated electro-mechanical technologies for Energy, Environmental and National Security clients.

Todd has received several awards for his technology development efforts, including an R&D 100 Award (Academy Award of the R&D industry), an Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for outstanding technology commercialization success and two patents for successfully developed and fielded ultrasonics based container inspection technologies.

Research Interests

Project Management
Marketing
Technical Writing
Data Acquisition & Control
Technology Procurement
Systems Testing & Integration

Education and Credentials

B.S., Business Information Systems, City University, Bellevue, WA 1993
M.B.A., Engineering Technology Management, City University, Bellevue, WA 1996
PMP, Certified Project Manager, Project Management Institute 1994
Adjunct Faculty -School of Management & Business, City University - 1999-Present

Selected Publications

2008

Diaz AA, TJ Samuel, BJ Tucker, AD Cinson, JD Valencia, KL Gervais, and JS Thompson. 2008. "Through-Container Measurements of Acoustic Signatures for Classification/Discrimination of Liquid Explosives (LEs) and Precursor Threat Liquids." In Proceedings of the SPIE: Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security 2008, vol. 6934, ed. PJ Shull, HF Wu, AA Diaz, DW Vogel, p. 693413. SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, WA. doi:10.1117/12.776420

2005

Andersen ES, TJ Samuel, and KL Gervais. 2005. "Portable Source Identification Device." In 10th SPIE International Symposium Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics Nondestructive Detection and Measurement for Homeland Security, pp. 41-47. SPIE-INT Society Optical Engineering, Bellingham.
Andersen ES, TJ Samuel, and OD Mullen. 2005. "Straddle Carrier Radiation Portal Monitoring." In 10th SPIE International Symposium Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics Nondestructive Detection and Measurment for Homeland Security Published in the Proceedings of the SPIE VOl. 5769, pp. 33-40. SPIE-INT Society Optical Engineering , Bellingham.
Brodzinski RL, RA Craig, SD Fink, WK Hensley, NOA Holt, MA Knopf, EA Lepel, OD Mullen, SR Salaymeh, TJ Samuel, JE Smart, MR Tinker, and D Walker. 2005. "An Instrument for Measuring the TRU Concentration in High-Level Liquid Waste." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 263(3):625-628.

2004

Diaz AA, ES Andersen, and TJ Samuel. 2004. "Low Frequency-SAFT Inspection Methodology for Coarse-Grained Steel Rail Components (Manganese Steel Frogs)." In Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing. Canadian Institute for Non-Destructive Evaluation, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Diaz AA, BJ Burghard, JD Valencia, and TJ Samuel. 2004. "Ultrasonic database development for the acoustic inspection device: the velocity-attenuation measurement system (VAMS)." In Nondestructive Detection and Measurement for Homeland Security, preceedings - SPIE THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING , vol. 5395, ed. Doctor, S. R., pp. 26-35. SPIE-INT Society Optical Engineering, Bellingham, WA.

2003

Diaz AA, BJ Burghard, JR Skorpik, CL Shepard, TJ Samuel, and RA Pappas. 2003. "Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Instrument for Counter-Terrorism and Drug Interdiction Operations - The Acoustic Inspection Device (AID)." In IMTC/03: Proceeding of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Instrumentation and measurement at the summit, vol. 2, pp. 1275-1280. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ.

2002

Pardini AF, SL Crawford, RV Harris, SR, TJ Samuel, RA Roberts, JM Alzheimer, KL Gervais, MA Maynard, and JC Tucker. 2002. Annual Report - Remotely Operated NDE System for Inspection of Hanford's Waste Tank Knuckle Regions and Development of a Small Roving Annulus Inspection Vehicle T-SAFT Scanning Bridge for Savannah River Site Applications. PNNL-14072, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.

2001

Rinker MW, and TJ Samuel. 2001. "Overview of Remote Retrieval Equipment and the Strategy for removal of Radon Bearing Waste from Silos 1 and 2 at the Fernald Site." In American Nuclear Society 9th International Topical Meeting on Robotic and Remote Systems. Session 2a--Underground Storage Tanks--General., p. 10 pp American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL.
Pardini AF, and TJ Samuel. 2001. Functions and Requirements for the DST Knuckle Region Ultrasonic Scanning System. PNNL-13436, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
Pardini AF, JM Alzheimer, SL Crawford, AA Diaz, KL Gervais, RV Harris, SR, DM Riechers, TJ Samuel, GJ Schuster, JC Tucker, and RA Roberts. 2001. Development of a Remotely Operated NDE System for Inspection of Hanford's Double Shell Waste Tank Knuckle Regions. PNNL-13682, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.