Jason Floyd

Experience

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  University of Maryland

  Mar 1998 - Jun 2000

  Reactor Operations Manager

  Primary responsibility was the day-to-day operations and maintenance of University of Maryland Training Reactor (MUTR), a 250 kW TRIGA reactor including ensuring compliance with the facility license, 10 CFR, and the facility Technical Specifications. Developed work plans for and monitored performance of facility staff, executed the operator training and requalification program, wrote proposals and obtained funding for research, taught undergraduate classes, performed commercial neutron irradiations, designed and implemented changes to reactor control systems and waste handling systems, and designed and constructed experimental chambers and shields for customers. Secondary responsibility was coordinating activities for submitting a relicensing application in the summer of 2000. This included reviewing and updating all facility procedures, the safety analysis report, the environmental impact appraisal, the emergency plan (including co-ordination with Campus and County emergency services), the operator training plan, and reactor technical specifications. Additionally provided support to the other department radiation sources (Co-60 and 10 MeV linear electron beam) including performing electron/photon calculations to support to support experimental design and customer analysis of test data. Show less

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  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  Jul 2000 - May 2002

  Post-Doctoral Fellow

  Primary responsibility was the development of versions 2 and 3 of the Fire Dynamics Simulator, a large eddy simulation CFD program for fire modeling. Contributions made during the fellowship included improved conjugate heat transfer, addition of a quasi-equilibrium model for droplet evaporation, integrating RADCAL into the radiation solver, development of a mixture fraction combustion model, improved thermophysical gas properties, liquid pool evaporation, gas phase/solid phase interactions, multi-block grid boundary conditions, and radiation absorption by droplets. Secondary responsibility was conducting experiments at Virginia Tech to study the production of CO during post-flashover compartment fires as a function of the ventilation condition using a scaled ISO-9705 compartment. Show less

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  Hughes Associates, Inc.

  Jun 2002 - Dec 2014

  Senior Consultant

  Commercial nuclear power: hazards assessment and fire modeling for regulatory compliance, QA reviewer for calculations, beyond design basis accidents.Industrial: hazards assessment and fire modeling for oil and gas production facilities, semiconductor production, data center smoke detection.Aerospace and Defense: hazards assessments and fire modeling for NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, in-flight accidents for the airborne laser program, support Live Fire Test and Evaluation activities for multiple ship programs.DOE Facilities: fire hazards assessments and fire modeling for high level waste treatment, particle physics research, and special nuclear materials handling.Universities and Hospitals: performance based design of smoke control systems and sprinkler systems for atriums and arenas.Commercial and Mixed-Use: performance based design of smoke control systems and sprinkler systems for warehouses, office buildings, airports, and other facilities.National Historic Landmarks: fire hazards assessment and fire modeling in support of fire protection system design for National Historic Landmarks.Litigation: review of evidence and depositions, review of expert reports, forensic fire modeling, development of expert opinions including depositions and courtroom testimony. Litigation topics have included self-heating, appliance malfunction, smoke detection, consumer electronics, and maintenance of fire protection systems.Software Development: Co-author of the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator as a NIST including soot deposition, combustion modeling, control systems, species tracking, and HVAC, lead developer of FSSIM, a network fire model accredited for use by the Navy. Fire Research: development of specialized instrumentation, codes and standards research, suppression and detection system research Show less

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  JENSEN HUGHES

  Jan 2015 - Feb 2022

  Senior Consultant

  Commercial nuclear power: hazards assessment and fire modeling for regulatory compliance, QA reviewer for calculations, beyond design basis accidents.Industrial: hazards assessment and fire modeling for oil and gas production facilities, semiconductor production, data center smoke detection.Aerospace and Defense: hazards assessments and fire modeling for NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, in-flight accidents for the airborne laser program, support Live Fire Test and Evaluation activities for multiple ship programs.DOE Facilities: fire hazards assessments and fire modeling for high level waste treatment, particle physics research, and special nuclear materials handling.Universities and Hospitals: performance based design of smoke control systems and sprinkler systems for atriums and arenas.Commercial and Mixed-Use: performance based design of smoke control systems and sprinkler systems for warehouses, office buildings, airports, and other facilities.National Historic Landmarks: fire hazards assessment and fire modeling in support of fire protection system design for National Historic Landmarks.Litigation: review of evidence and depositions, review of expert reports, forensic fire modeling, development of expert opinions including depositions and courtroom testimony. Litigation topics have included self-heating, appliance malfunction, smoke detection, consumer electronics, and maintenance of fire protection systems.Software Development: Co-author of the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator as a NIST including soot deposition, combustion modeling, control systems, species tracking, and HVAC, lead developer of FSSIM, a network fire model accredited for use by the Navy. Fire Research: development of specialized instrumentation, codes and standards research, suppression and detection system research Show less

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  UL Research Institutes

  Feb 2022 - now

  Research Engineer, Fire Safety Research Institute

  Research improving fire safety in the built environment.