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Torion is led by a team of seasoned technical and business entrepreneurs. Their background and experience includes 5 prior start-up companies, including contract services, analytical testing and, scientific instrumentation.

Torion's dynamic team includes scientists, engineers, statisticians, bioengineers, and business managers with a wealth of experience that can bring focus, performance, and results to your most demanding projects.
 

Torion Staff Scientists and Engineers


Douglas W. Later, Ph.D.

Received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Brigham Young University and has published over 75 technical papers. He has experience in instrumentation development in the areas of automated and micro-sample preparation, ion, liquid, and gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. Doug also has over 25 years of technical, marketing, and business development experience in analytical instrumentation related to a wide variety of markets. He blends his technical background with 20 years of international business management experience that have included Director, Vice President, President/CEO, and Board of Directors level responsibilities. Doug is the President of Torion Technologies.

Milton L. Lee, Ph.D.

H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU), directs a large research program in chemical measurement technology. He has been a principle founder of three companies that have commercialized instrumentation developed in his laboratories. He received a Ph.D. from Indiana University and has directed research programs at BYU in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments for 30 years. Professor Lee has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific research papers and is known internationally for his achievements in analytical chemistry instrumentation. Milton is a founder of Torion Technologies and serves on the Board of Directors.

Edgar D. Lee, Ph.D.

Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer and founder of Torion Technologies, also co-founded another analytical instrument company, Sensar Corporation. He has managed the overall direction of the research, development, and engineering activities of Torion for the past 6 years. Ed received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and a B. A. from Brigham Young University and has 25 years of experience in developing analytical chemistry instrumentation. Ed has authored more than 35 scientific publications and is co-inventor on 15 issued or pending patents. He has extensive experience in the field of mass spectrometry, chemical separations and the development of novel instrumentation to solve unique analytical challenges.

Kenneth D. Nemelka

Over 15 years experience in the software industry. For the past 8 years, Ken has worked on scientific applications including TOF mass spectrometry, chromatography, and GC-MS instrument control. During his career, he has worked on projects ranging in size from single user up to n-tier 200 user applications. Ken has B. S. in computer sciences and is experienced in the Microsoft Windows environments using a variety of tools including C, C++, C#, .NET, SQL, 4gl, MFC, OOP, and RDBMS. Ken is the Manager of Torion's Firmware Coding and Software Programming Department.

Randall W. Waite

B. S. and N.E. degrees from Brigham Young University in Electrical Engineering and began his career as a design engineer at Hewlett- Packard. Randy's experience includes research in silicon based cold-cathode electron emitters. For the past ten years Randy's activities have been centered on the design of support and instrumentation circuitry for mass and ion mobility spectrometers, including RF generators, high-voltage power supplies, electron multiplier detection circuits, microprocessor-based data acquisition systems, and ion optics control circuits. Randy is the Manager of Torion's Electrical Engineering Department.

Jeffrey L. Jones

B. S. degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University. He began his career working as a mechanical engineer for Sensar Corporation developing a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) for detecting contaminants in high purity gases. As a lead engineer at 3Com Corporation, he developed Bluetooth and 802.11b wireless PC cards. At Moxtek, as a manufacturing engineer, he developed manufacturing procedures, automated test fixtures, developed software for machine control, and designed assembly stations. Jeff is the Manager of Torion's Mechanical Engineering Department.

Larry G. Lee, Ph.D.

Larry is the Director of Manufacturing and Safety Supervisor at Torion Technologies. He has a Ph.D. in bioenvironmental engineering, a Masters degree in industrial engineering, and Bachelors in math and statistics. Larry served on the faculty of Oklahoma State University, Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Department for approximately 10 years and has 18 years of experience as a nuclear safety analyst at Idaho National Laboratory. He has evaluated potential exposures to hazardous agents and their controls, including the evaluation of personnel sampling devices and ventilation systems.

Torion Consulting Scientist and Engineers


 

+ H. Dennis Tolley, PH.D., ASA

Dennis is a Professor of Statistics at Brigham Young University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, with 30 years experience in highly multivariate biostatistical methods. He has worked closely with Torion Technologies and Professor Lee for the past 12 years on development of multivariate methods for chemical measurements. Dennis has also worked on reduction of infectious diseases for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in developing countries including China, the Philippines, and Chile. He is active in modeling economic effects of non-communicable diseases for the World Health Organization. He received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina.

+ Aaron R. Hawkins, PH.D.

Aaron directs the fabrication of microelectronic semiconductor devices such as the halo ion trap MS under development at Torion. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the electrical and computer engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, and is the Director of the Integrated Microelectronics Laboratory. Dr. Hawkins has had 8 years of industrial experience in semiconductor fabrication and development of high-speed optical communication systems and components.

+ Richard A. Robinson, PH.D.

Dr. Robinson joined the Microbiology Department at Brigham Young University as an assistant professor in 1991. He is currently a professor in the Microbiology and Molecular Biology Department at BYU. Dr. Robinson's research interests include the genetics and virulence factors of bacterial pathogens. He is also director of the University's Biosafety Level-3 Laboratory which is registered with both the CDC and USDA. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, AOAC international, and the American Association for Cancer Research. His laboratory is currently funded by grants from the Department of Homeland Security and from several smaller research organizations. He regularly collaborates with scientists at several national laboratories including Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore.

+ Calvin H. Bartholomew, PH.D.

Cal is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University, Department of Chemical Engineering and is head of the University Catalysis Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Chemical Engineering. He has conducted research in chemical catalysis for more than 34 years specializing in heterogeneous catalysis, structure-activity relationships, kinetics, adsorption phenomena, and catalyst deactivation. During this time, he has consulted with more than 30 different companies on problems related to catalysis.

+ Daniel Maynes, PH.D.

Professor Daniel Maynes is currently the Associate Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Brigham Young University. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in August 1997 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where, prior to his appointment at BYU, he was a postdoctoral research professor and instructor. Other experience includes employment with the Space Dynamics Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. Professor Maynes teaches fluid mechanics and thermodynamics at the undergraduate level in addition to viscous flow, compressible flow, and convective heat and mass transfer at the graduate level. His research interests include microscale transport phenomena, electroosmotic transport dynamics, ion mobility and electric field gradient separations, turbulence induced vibrations in pipe flows, and thermal transport in large scale coal boilers.