• Evaluated Competitive Chemical Processes for an Electrolysis Project.
• Evaluated Process to Set Off Controlled Explosions in Confined Regions Using Gaseous Hydrocarbons.
• Determined Process Requirements and Techniques for the Development of Certain Ceramic Products.
• Led Team to Design & Develop NIR-absorbing (Near IR up to 1500 nm) Chemical Dyes.
• Developed methods to dye various Polymers using Diffusion.
• Used Silanes to bond organic chemicals to inorganic substrates (glass and ceramics), organic chemicals to organic chemicals, and inorganic chemicals to inorganic substrates.
• Designed and constructed microcomputer hardware, instrumentation and software systems to remotely control chemical processes.
• Determined emulsion breakers, surfactants and dispersants to use in chemical processes.
• Performed systematic Gas Chromatographic Study of Paraffin Hydrocarbons with 1 to 70 carbon atoms.
• Designed "slop oil" Reclamation Unit and that is recovering 300 to 500 Bbls/day of Crude Oil from Waste Tank Bottoms.
• Developed experimental plan to determine and reduce the Air Emissions from Industrial Burn-Out Ovens and Incinerators.
• Designed a Small (50,000 BTU/hr) Tire Pyrolysis Unit that generates steam from whole tires.

• Calculated Reaction Yields from Competitive Electrolysis Processes.
• Designed Industrial WasteWater Treatment & Disposal Systems.
• Developed operational procedures, physical sampling, and analytical chemistry protocols for a commercial water field that sells drinking water to municipalities.
• Developed methods to both break emulsion and disperse particles in aqueous systems.
• Designed and Implemented a system to Artificially Recharge an Aquifer.
• Designed Modular Water Treatment Units to make potable water used by expatriates in Siberian oil fields and in the US.

• Developed theory and methodology to derive asymmetric probability distribution functions for use in high-speed computers (US Patent Pending 20040073505).
• Developed Monte Carlo Risk Analysis System for use in Chemical Process Design and Financial Systems.
• Developed Monte Carlo Simulation Models for the prediction of Chemical Reactions, Physical Processes, and Financial Systems.
• Developed and Performed Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Multi-Particle Spin-Dependent Models of the Nucleus.
• Performed both Ab Initio and Parametric Quantum Mechanical Calculations of complex dye molecules.
• Calculated UV, IR and NIR Spectra, Reaction Probabilities, Solvating Parameters, and Ground-State Molecular Geometry for Organic and Inorganic Molecules using Ab Initio and Semi-Empirical techniques.
• Designed Organic Molecules to have certain electronic properties. This involves R&D in NIR absorbers and "Moletronics" molecules.
• Calculated Reaction Yields from Complex and Competitive Chemical Processes in Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers.
• Performed Complex Statistical and Classical Thermodynamic Calculations required for Chemical Process Design.
• Developed mathematical and computer model for Species Transport to help Identify Sources of Water Pollution. This Model utilizes the Chemical Composition of Solvents, Surface Materials and Underground Formations.
• Calculated Reaction Yields from Competitive Electrolysis Processes.
• Calculated Characteristics (Maximum Specific Energy, Overpressure, etc.) of High Explosive Reaction Processes.
• Performed Thermodynamic Calculations required for Chemical Process Design.
• Developed complex mathematical and computer model for the transport of inorganic and organic constituents through soils.
• Developed and Used Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques and other theoretical models for the transport (diffusion) of certain chemical species through Polymers and other porous, permeable and semi-permeable materials.
• Developed mathematical and computer model for Species Transport to help Identify Sources of Water Pollution. This Model utilizes the Chemical Composition of Solvents, Surface Materials and Underground Formations.
• Used "Fault Tree" model for failure analysis of industrial processes.
• Performed EPA-certified Air Transport modeling (As per USEPA Document AP-42).
• Used "Fault Tree" model for failure analysis of industrial processes.
• Developed Complex Non-Linear Predictive Models for Topographic Surfaces.
• Developed Visual Basic Macros for Excel to control other computational software.
• Used ISAM and Relational Databases to control large databases.
• Developed Computer Program for placing a "sun dial" on a vertical wall. This sun dial is located on the south exterior wall of the Children's Museum of the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas.

• Managed and worked on Teams that evaluated technical and economic feasibility for Chemical Process Plants, Petroleum Refineries, Manufacturing Facilities, Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal Facilities, and Oil and Gas Field Development Projects in the US, Mexico, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
• Authored Book titled "Monte Carlo Risk Analysis and Due Diligence of New Business Ventures", 2002.
• Performed Technical Systems Analysis that allowed the Rapid Correction of Polymeric System that was Allowing the Diffusing of Contaminants into a Polymeric System used in the Production of Photodiodes.
• Performed Preliminary Due Diligence on an Electrolysis Project.
• Performed Preliminary Due Diligence on a High-Temperature Waste Incinerator.
• Performed Environmental Due Diligence for Petroleum Production Purchases in Ecologically-Sensitive Areas.
• Written a full range of documents from Executive Summaries to complete Feasibility Studies for various Technical Projects in order to obtain funding through Venture Capital, IPO's, Bridge Financing, Asset Lending, Equity, and both Factoring and Forfaiting Receivable Accounts.
• Made written and oral presentations to Individuals, Major Corporations, Investment Banks, and other Financial Institutions.

• Used "Fault Tree Analysis" for Process Design Safety of Chemical and Nuclear Processes.
• Evaluated Risk of Industrial Process to Initiate Controlled Explosions in Confined Volumes.
• Evaluated risk to Personnel from Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) on oil-well pipes and developed a Screening System that is used at Exempt Waste Disposal Facilities.
• Assessed and mitigated the Process, Safety, Environmental and Business Risk from Oil & Gas Operations, Manufacturing, Waste Treatment & Disposal, and other industrial operations.
• Developed and used Monte Carlo Risk Analysis techniques for Technical Due Diligence.
• Developed and used Monte Carlo Risk Analysis techniques to evaluate Multi-Well Drilling Programs in Oil & Gas Exploration.

• Drafted RCRA, NPDES (for both storm water and wastewater discharge), HSWA, and Exempt (Petroleum) Waste Permits, and Air Emissions Permits/Exemptions.
• Helped modify operational activities of Clients in the U.S., Mexico, Indonesia and Soviet Union in order to bring them into compliance with International, Federal, Republic and State Environmental Statutes.
• Managed Emergency Response to Hydrocarbon, Chemical and Environmental Accidents. Developed and implemented Accident, Safety and Environmental Remedial Plans.
• Developed and wrote Formal Responses to Complaints of Environmental Regulatory Agencies for Clients.
• Verified effect of QA/QC Standards for Specific Environmental Analyses (CWA, TCLP, etc.)
• Performed Risk Analysis for the Permitting of a new and novel High Explosive System used to clean Boilers in Nuclear Reactor Power Plants. Prepared technical review of this system for Presentation to US and European Regulators.

• Served as an "Expert" in the Texas District Courts and before federal and state Regulators.
• Taught Monte Carlo Risk Analysis Class at the Permian Basin Graduate Center in Midland, Texas.
• Addressed Scientific, Professional and Engineering Organizations.

• Designed and performed Radiation Experiments to evaluate Nuclear Weapon effects and design processes at the Nevada Test Site.
• Led a Laboratory-Wide Evaluation of the accuracy and methods of Neutron (Radiochemistry) Diagnostics used in determining Yields of Effects Tests.
• Led a National Team to re-evaluate Radiochemical data from old Soviet and Chinese Atmospheric Tests.
• Evaluated Treaty Issues to Allow Peaceful Nuclear Explosives (PNEs) under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) for US State Department Negotiators.

• Performed Time-Dependent, Three-Dimensional, Multigroup Radiation (Monte Carlo and Discrete Ordinate) Transport Calculations for Nuclear Weapon Design and Vulnerability Assessment.
• Performed Time-Dependent Calculations for the Transmission of Fission Heating in Complex Materials with various Geometry and Physical Properties.
• Used Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques to calculate nuclear reaction and heat transfer rates in complex time-dependent, many-component systems undergoing nuclear fission.

• Chaired the National Particle-Beam Technology Study Group for the Secretary of Defense that consisted of 60 prominent Scientists charged with laying out a Five-Year Development Plan for Nuclear Particle-Beam Weapon Technology. Authored Classified (S-NSI) Report, (LA-7640-MS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 04 Jan 1979.)
• Worked in the Weapons Planning Group of the Director's Office that was responsible for Systems Analysis, Monitoring and Oversight of Laboratory Programs involving Nuclear-Weapon Design and Testing.
• Member of a Committee that evaluated proposals and monitored projects for a $17 million/year internal R&D budget.
• Worked in a Group that determined the technical vulnerability of nuclear weapons to all possible conditions in the "stock-pile-to-target" sequence.
• Evaluated potential nuclear weapon designs of potential adversaries.

• Consulted with US House Members, US Senators, Committees and their Staffs about various technical programs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Presented Technical Papers at Professional Meetings.
• Invitee to the 1974 International Gordon Conference in Nuclear Chemistry. Fifty Representatives from Europe and the US were Invited to attend this One Week Technical Exchange.

• Worked on a team that developed Direct-Inlet Mass Spectrometers for Real-Time Analysis of Foreign Substances in Air. This is the Technology that led to the current GC/MS machines used in Environmental Analysis.

• Performed experiments on short-lived fission products by radiating enriched U235 in a TRIGA reactor.
• Developed and Utilized different Direct-Inlet Ion Sources for a Mass Spectrometer on-line to a TRIGA Reactor in order to optimize the real-time analysis of short-lived Fission Products.
• Developed a Moving-Tape Separation and Detection System (mechanical hardware, computer hardware, computer software and interfaces) to analyze Low-Energy, Delayed Neutrons from Fission.
• Calibrated and tested Proportional Counters for use with Delayed Neutrons.
• Designed and performed Experiments in Delayed-Neutron Spectroscopy.

• Used Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques to aid in the Design of Delayed-Neutron detectors and Experiments.

• Developed rapid chemical separation techniques to aid in the study of short-lived isotopes.

• Designed and performed complex gamma-ray spectroscopy experiments on the TRISTAN Isotope Separator that was on-line to a 5 MW Research Nuclear Reactor.
• Worked on team that designed and developed a Moving Tape system to separate short-lived isotopes coming from a beam of fission products that were accelerator through a 90o 1.6 m analyzing magnet.
• Taught a Laboratory Course in Radiochemistry Techniques to Engineering Graduate Students.

• Studied Nuclear Structure by developing the Theory and computational Computer Programs to calculate Five-Particle, Spin-Dependent Eigenvalues.

EDUCATION

• Research Fellow of the Ames Laboratory, US Atomic Energy Commission, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
• Thesis: "A Five-Particle Shell-Model Calculation Using a Spin-Dependent Potential as Applied to Tc¹⁰¹ and the Nuclear Decays of Mo¹⁰¹, Tc¹⁰¹, Xe¹⁴², and Cs¹⁴²".
• Postdoctoral Fellow of the Ames Laboratory, US Atomic Energy Commission, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

• Completed degree in 4 years while married with 2 children.
• Worked at a job for 6 days/week, 8 hours/day for 3 years while attending college.

HONORS

• "American Men and Women of Science"
• "National Directory of Whos Who and Executives and Professionals"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES

SECURITY CLEARANCES HELD

Access to Top Secret, Restricted Data (CNWDI) Information through a DOE "Sensitive Q Clearance" with all Sigma Levels. Access to Top Secret SCI Information through a Clearance with the Defense Intelligence Agency. No US Government Security Clearances have been active since 1980.

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• J.F. Wright, "Monte Carlo Risk Analysis and Technical Due Diligence", Track Keynote Speaker, Eleventh Annual Quality Conference of the American Society for Quality, Adams Mark Hotel, St. Louis, MO, February 14 & 15, 2002.
• J.F. Wright, "Monte Carlo Risk Analysis and Due Diligence of New Business Ventures", AMACOM, New York, 2002 (346 pages).
• J.F.Wright, "Technical Due Diligence - Protecting the Investor?", Expert-Zine, March 1, 2001.
• J.F. Wright, "The How & Why of Technical Due Diligence", February 1, 2001
• J.F. Wright, "Technical Due Diligence, Errors & Uncertainty", February 1, 2001.
• J.F. Wright, "US Particle-Beam Technology Program Plan", Classified Report (S-NSI) from Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-7640-MS, 04 Jan, 1979, Work supported by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
• J. F. Wright, et al, "Nuclear Decay of Tc101 and Mo101", Phys. Rev. C12 572 (1975)
• J. F. Wright, "A Five-particle, Shell-Model Calculation Using a Spin-Dependent Potential as Applied to Tc101 and the Nuclear Decays of Mo101, Tc101, Xe142 and Cs142", U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Report No. IS-T-619, (1974).
• P. L. Reeder and J. F. Wright, "Half-lives of Rb 92-97 and Cs 142-145", Phys. Rev. C12 718 (1975)
• P. L. Reeder, J. F. Wright, R. A. Andrel, "Fission Product Nuclear Data Obtained by Use of an On-Line Mass Spectrometer", National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 425, (October, 1975)
• P. L. Reeder, L. J. Alquist, J. F. Wright, "Separation of Alkaline Earth from Alkali Metal Fission Products in the SOLAR On-Line Mass Spectrometer", Nucl. Inst. Meth. 133 1 (1976)
• L. J. Alquist, J. F. Wright, P. L. Reeder, "Calculational Methods for Obtaining Delayed Neutron emission Probabilities from SOLAR Experiments", U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration Report No. BNWL-SA-5900 SUP, (September, 1976)
• P. L. Reeder, J. F. Wright, L. J. Alquist, "Average neutron energies from separated delayed-neutron precursors", Phys. Rev. C15 2098 (1977).
• P. L. Reeder, J. F. Wright, L. J. Alquist, "Delayed-neutron emission probabilities of separated isotopes of Br, Rb, I, and Cs", Phys. Rev. C15 2108 (1977).
• Presented Seminars to Chemistry and Physics Faculty and Graduate Students on quantum mechanical computer calculations.
• Presented numerous papers to the Nuclear Physics Division of the American Physical Society.
• Published numerous Classified papers and reports on matters that involve various technical aspects of technologies used in nuclear and Particle-Beam Weapons.
• Testified as an expert witness in court proceedings and before governmental regulatory bodies.

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