Kevin B. Beard beard@jlab.org office:(757)269-5678 12050 Jefferson Ave., Suite 704 Newport News, VA 23606 PERSONAL homepage: https://userweb.jlab.org/~beard U.S. citizen, held security clearance at NASA P. O. Box 11165, Newport News, VA 23601 home:(757)599-4210 EDUCATION 12th FLUKA Course, May 2012 USPAS graduate level Free Electron Laser course, Jan 2003 USPAS Accelerator Physics course, Jan 2002 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Ph.D. in Physics, June 1986 M.S. in Physics, June 1982 Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI B.A. in Physics , June 1978 PHYSICS SKILLS Accelerator Physics Second leading expert on g4beamline, a very widely used accelerator simulation program based on Geant4 that includes the interactions of particles with matter http:g4beamline.muonsinc.com wrote the rf_device package for g4beamline 2.10 wrote a test space charge and virtualcone package for g4beamline wrote a number of ancilliary programs for g4beamline including kmimf, optim2g4blmodel, txt2blfieldmap, and makeuniformbunch wrote the retrack program to analyze the results of beam line simulations simulated many muon cooling beam channels and muon accelerators wrote, modified and maintained simulation software for the Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators (CASA) at TJNAF, later for Muons, Inc. and the Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) rewrote software (tdbuu and matbbu) and performed calculations to predict beam breakup thresholds for the superconducting RF cavities used in the TJNAF FEL and CEBAF accelerators simulated the effect of stray magnetic fields on beams in CEBAF experimental hall C participated in the CEBAF Energy Recovery experiment extensively rewrote and modified software to simulate the beam-beam interaction performed extensive simulations using that software for a proposed electron-ion collider designed, modeled, and constructed particle beamline components and transport systems (slits, monitors, magnets, targets) performed simulations using PARMELA to understand space charge effects in the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) injector; modified same for use simulating CEBAF and FEL injectors Particle Physics major collaborator in the ongoing Light Pseudoscalar and Scalar particle Search (LIPSS) experiment at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's (TJNAF) 10kW Free Electron Laser (FEL) wrote and used the lipssscan program to translate, manipulate, and analyze LIPSS data in an attempt to create and detect dark matter worked with students participating in the LIPSS experiment Aerospace supported many tests at the NASA Langley 14x22' wind tunnel unscrambled legacy FORTRAN and C code, wrote splitcf program to assist analysis modified and debugged a real time rotor control system for helicopter models developed a real time digital flapping resolver for helicopters repaired electronics Nuclear Physics was a long term member of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectometer (CLAS) detector event reconstruction software group developed reconstruction software for the CLAS forward angle calorimeters was co-leader of the CEBAF hall C software group designed coincidence electronics and related software for a Moller Polarimeter measurement at the MIT Bates accelerator upgraded the calibration and control software for the Argonne National Lab/Notre Dame BGO ball detector at the ATLAS accelerator extensive simulation coding and use (Geant3, BOCKVI, etc.) low and high energy (0.1 MeV-4 GeV), light and heavy ion (e--La139), high spin, nuclear resonance fluorescence, gamma ray spectroscopy, and proton induced Xray research and analysis experience at numerous labs, including Wayne State University, Fermilab, National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Brookhaven National Lab, Lawrence Berekeley National Lab, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Argonne National Lab and Jefferson Lab. designed, modeled, constructed and used gas, solid state, Cerenkov, and scintillation radiation detectors experience handling radioactive materials and working in radioactive environments Teaching taught several undergraduate lecture and lab courses taught a graduate level lab course on nuclear techniques COMPUTER AND ELECTRONICS SKILLS Programming wrote and documented a variety of scientific software packages; some available at http://casa.jlab.org/internal/code_library/code_library.shtml wrote low level code to interface to CAMAC, FASTBUS, and VME hardware Most Notable Programs lipssscan - manipulate and analyze data from the LIPSS dark matter search kmimf - generic model optimization tool for Unix and Cygwin/Windows programs retrack - manipulate, transform, and analyze output from PARMELA, g4beamline, OptiM, and ICOOL simulations of particle accelerators sifter - wind tunnel data analysis and conversion dfr - a realtime digital flapping resolver for helicopters splitcf - very powerful legacy code analyzer and documentation tool Languages extensive structured FORTRAN, C, and C++ experience on many platforms Visual C++, HTML, Tk/Tcl, Perl, Java, QAL, DCL, BASIC, ALGOL, and CSMP experience Data Acquisition Systems MCAs, NSCL-SARA, ORNL-HHIRF, ANL-DAPHNE, LAMPF-Q, CEBAF-CODA, VME-based, and EPICS Operating Systems and Networks Ethernet and Appletalk network manager Linux, HP-UX, DEC-Ultrix, MS Windows, and Apple MacOS system manager UNIX: Linux, MkLinux, HP-UX, DEC-Ultrix, SunOS, IBM-AIX, VxWorks, CrayOS, DEC-OSF MS DOS, MS Windows, Apple MacOS, MacOSX DEC-VAX VMS and PDP-10, 11, RSX, Perkin-Elmer OS-32, IBM-MVS Hardware RTL, TTL, CMOS, LSI, SCSI, EIDE, MBD, NIM, CAMAC, VME, and FASTBUS experience analog, digital, and PC board design and construction experience general electronics and electrical work general machine shop experience and training RECENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Oct 2007 - May 2012, Accelerator Physicist, supervisor T.J.Roberts Muons, Inc., Batavia, IL Feb 2001 - Sep 2007, Computer Scientist, supervisor D.Douglas Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA Aug 1997 - Feb 2001, Systems Analyst, supervisor A.B.Graham Computer Sciences Corporation, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Sep 1996 - Aug 1997, Assistant Professor of Physics, supervisor R. Gordon, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION American Physical Society PUBLICATIONS A more detailed resume and complete publication list are available upon request or from: https://userweb.jlab.org/~beard 40 refereed publications 43 technical notes 15 automotive articles REFERENCES Dr. Andrei Afanasev afanas@gwu.edu (202)994-8288 Department of Physics, George Washington University, 2725 21st St, NW, Washington, DC 20052 Dr. Keith Baker oliver.baker@yale.edu (203)432-6969 Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511-8499 Dr. Alex Bogacz bogacz@jlab.org (757)269-5784 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Ste 704, 12050 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA 23606 Dr. Jim Boyce boyce@jlab.org (757)269-7513 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Ste 704, 12050 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA 23606 Dr. Dave Douglas douglas@jlab.org (757)584-7512 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, MS 18, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA 23606