RESUME OF JOSEPH E. ROEHL, Ph.D.

Present Position

President, Scentczar Corporation

Dr Roehl has 26 years of continuous experience directly related to the research and development of complex systems in chemical detection for chemical process plants and in the homeland security and DOD CBRN areas.

Career Highlights

• Extensive field work at chemical process plants and oil refinery alkylation plants with the start up and maintenance of chemical sensor systems
• Taken a concept first demonstrated in the laboratory in Phase I SBIR research through a complex Phase III test program including field testing with all of the services at different CONUS installations.  Interfaced with base commanders who provided test subjects for training and testing. (Scentczar Miniature Passive Indicator)
• Seasoned Program manager with responsibilities for creating project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), proposing schedule and budget to the customer, tracking and managing schedule and budget through Gantt and PERT charts using automated tools, and successfully completing projects.   
• Example programs I have managed:
• Miniature Passive Indicator, MARCORSYSCOM, Phase I, II, III SBIR $1.6 M
• Numerous Phase I’s DOD, NSF
• Managed symposium schedule and budget
• Classified Air Sampler - $250 K
• Growth oriented entrepreneur who grew Scentczar Corporation from one to twenty people through a combination of SBIR contracts, subcontracts, and promoting technical symposia.
• Intimate knowledge of customers and competitors obtained through hosting technical symposiums for DHS, Intelligence, Federal Law Enforcement, and DOD agencies and vendors in the three fields:
• TICS & TIMS Symposiums for chemical defense
• Rad & Nuke Symposiums for nuclear defense
• Bio Symposiums for Biological threat/response community
• All Symposiums dealt with detection, protection, and decon systems
• Developed components for NBC collective and individual protection including a “freshness” sensor for the JSLIST suit and collective protection filter systems.  Sensor detected fuel vapor and other materials known to poison carbon beds.
• Evaluated a number of major nuclear radiation detection systems for their product potential and manufacturability for the Bendix Corporation:
• Gamma camera developed under SBIR research
• Tritium detector
• UDR-13 Radiac

Education
Ph.D. EE, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, 1979
MSEE, Union College, Schenectady NY, 1973
BSEE, Union College, Schenectady NY 1970

Job History
Scentczar Corporation, Fredericksburg VA, formerly Ashland VA, Richmond VA (1996 - Present)
Position Title President
Dr. Roehl has profit/loss responsibility for Scentczar Corporation.  Dr. Roehl works closely with another small business, ATB Analytics LLC, to start up and maintain SHUR-SHOT chemical sensors and Fixed Point Ion Mobility Spectrometer (FPIMS) process analyzers.  Dr Roehl travels extensively to sites world-wide to provide field maintenance.   Dr Roehl organized technical symposiums in the CBRNE area.  Dr Roehl provided technical direction to scientists engaged in developing detectors for process and environmental applications.  Dr Roehl is the principal investigator on Scentczar’s Miniature Passive Indicator, a Residual Life Indicator for the JSLIST suit.  Dr. Roehl was a consultant through SAIC on DTRA’s CCAS system developed by Aerospace Corporation for UAVs.  Dr Roehl’s role was to help evaluate the technical feasibility of the product.  Dr. Roehl developed algorithms for Scentczar’s non-contact IR pavement monitor.  Dr. Roehl and staff were responsible for executing a water monitor test program for ECBC.

Science and Technology Corporation (STC), Dahlgren, VA (1994-1996)
Position Title Office Manager/Senior Staff Engineer
Dr Roehl managed a group of 18 scientists and technicians developing CW chemical sensors and collective protection equipment.  Dr Roehl prepared a concept development report on remote point sensing systems for the Navy’s Chemical Agent Remote Detection System (CARDS) application that was later merged with JSLSCAD.  Consulted with ARMY ERDEC on Army remote sensor program.  Dr Roehl provided Engineering Support to the Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) including departments B51 and B53 that developed sensor hardware.

Environmental Technologies Group (formerly Allied Signal Bendix Corporation), Baltimore, MD (1980-1994)
Position Title: Senior Staff Engineer
Dr. Roehl developed the signal processing-pattern recognition algorithm for the Bendix XM-22 ACADA.  Dr. Roehl provided consulting on the ETG CAM production effort. Dr. Roehl consulted with ERDEC on algorithm development for the XM21 including a moving vehicle algorithm.  Dr. Roehl developed various Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical detectors including the ETG version of the UDR-13 Radiac, the Biological Chemical Detector, and the XM-22 ACADA chemical detector.  In addition Dr. Roehl worked on various Toxic Industrial Chemical detectors.

 

Office of Research, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Virginia (1975-1980)
Position Title Engineer
Dr Roehl developed a signal processing/pattern recognition scheme for changing traffic control patterns based on real-time sensor data.

New York State Department of Transportation , Albany, New York (1970-1973)
Position Title Junior Engineer
Dr  Roehl developed data acquisition hardware for field applications.

Find out about Shur Shot, ATB Analytic's Hydrogen Fluoride Detector which finds applications in the chemical and nuclear industries.

Scentczar field demonstration of a filter breakthrough sensor called the Miniature Passive Indicator (MPI). MPI is more specifically known as a Residual Life Indicator and predicts filter breakthrough.

Specially designed rack for Scentczar's fire test simulating a combat situation for our Miniature Passive Indicator.

Setting up a permeation tube generator for laboratory testing in Scentczar's laboratory.