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Our Team:
Louis Haerle, MS., MBA.,
President, founder, has over 20 years of business operations
experience. He has been involved in managing, planning and building
numerous business organizations. Prior to starting Seacoast Science, he
was the director of network operations for Graviton's, Inc. where he
was responsible for building and managing the Network Operations Center
and Wide Area Network Engineering Organizations. Mr. Haerle was
previously with AT&T. During his tenure there he held numerous
management positions, the most recent of which was the Director of
Process Engineering for Enhanced Network Services in San Diego. In this
role he was responsible for the standardization and streamlining of key
operational processes to support the growth and scaling of AT&T
dedicated web hosting business. Prior to his move to San Diego, he held
the position of Manager for AT&T's Network Systems platform &
planning organization. He had responsibility for a portfolio of
large-scale system development projects with a budget totaling $74
million dollars. He also held the position of AT&T's Network
Control Center 5ESS Operations Manager where he led the 24/7 tier I and
II technical support team. This team was responsible for day-to-day
surveillance, control, analysis and repair for three of AT&T's 5ESS
based networks. Mr. Haerle holds a Bachelor of Science in Management
Information Systems and a Masters of Science in Information and
Communication from Ball State University. He received his Masters of
Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sanjay V. Patel, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and
CTO, founder, earned his B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1992, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in
chemical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor in 1993 and 1997, respectively. His doctoral research
involved studies of chemical interactions of combustible gases
with thin metal/semiconducting films and MEMS hot-plates for use
as gas sensors for automotive exhaust emissions. Dr. Patel
joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM in 1997
where he researched microfabricated hydrogen sensors and
polymers-based chemiresistors for the detection of volatile
organic compounds. In July of 2000 he joined Graviton, Inc. to
develop microcantilever-based gas sensors, and helped to invent
a chemicapacitive gas sensor technology. In February of 2003 Dr.
Patel co-founded Seacoast Science, Inc. Dr. Patel has published
numerous patents and journal articles on microsystems, thin
films, and gas sensor technology.
Stephen
T. Hobson, Ph.D., Director of Chemistry, received his
Bachelors of Science (cum
laude) in Analytical/Inorganic Chemistry from
Wheaton
College
in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Organic and Materials Chemistry from
the
University
of
California
,
Irvine
in 1997 in the group of Professor Kenneth J. Shea.
His Ph.D. research was on the synthesis and
characterization of organic bridged polysilsesquioxanes.
In 1998 Dr. Hobson entered active duty (CPT, MSC) in the
United States Army as a principal investigator at the United
States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USARMICD)
in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
At USAMRICD he gained extensive knowledge and experience
in Chemical Warfare Agents, including physical and toxicological
properties, protective schemes, and medical countermeasures.
He also became familiarized with Biological Warfare Agents
by his review of SBIR proposals and his successful completion of
the Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties
Course in 1998. His
primary research involved research and development of an active
topical skin protectant that prevent injury from percutaneous
exposure of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and neutralize the
CWA. This project
resulted in the award of a U.S. Army Research and Development
Achievement Award in 2000. At
USAMRICD he also performed research into the synthesis and SAR
of novel compounds as medical countermeasures to blister (HD)
and nerve agents (GD). Doctor
Hobson eventually reached the rank of Major in the U. S. Army
Reserve. In May
2003, Dr. Hobson joined the private sector in biotechnology as a
Senior Scientist leading the synthesis and optimization of g-PCR
active agonists, allosteric enhancers, and antagonists.
In March 2005, Dr. Hobson joined Seacoast Science as the
Senior Research Scientist with a focus on novel materials and
biological applications of MEMS-chemicapacitive sensors.
In 2006 he became Principal Scientist at Seacoast Science
in charge of polymer/material development and the application of
sensors to novel fields. Dr.
Hobson is a member of the American Chemical Society, the
Electrochemical Society, and has (co)authored peer-reviewed
journal articles (9), patents (8), and patent applications (4)
in the fields of medicinal chemistry, chemical agent
protection/decontamination, and high capacity hybrid
organic-inorganic materials as metal sorbents.
Todd E. Mlsna, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board, founder, graduated with a
B.S. from Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1985, and a
Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1991. Both
degrees were in chemistry. His graduate work focused on
synthetic organic fluorine chemistry, as did his postdoctoral
work at Clemson University. From 1994 to 1998 he worked at the
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC, on the
development of absorbent polymer-film-based chemical sensors.
While working at NRL his paper ‘Aromatic Fluoroalcohol Coatings
for Chemical Warfare Agent Detection’ won Best Paper at the
International Sensor Conference in Beijing in 1998 and his work
on pulsed laser deposition of polymer films won recognition in
2000 as one of the year’s best patent applications. In 1998 he
joined Sensor Research and Development Corporation where he
continued his work on chemical sensor development as Director of
Analytical Chemistry. He held the position of Senior Staff
Scientist at Graviton from 2000 to February 2003 where he
developed polymer formulations for Graviton’s volatile organic
compound sensor system. In February of 2003 Dr. Mlsna co-founded
Seacoast Science, Inc., where he was President and CTO. Dr. Mlsna’s work has been presented at
scientific conferences and published in journals and books on
numerous occasions. While
at Seacoast he has won several grants from government agencies
including the Department of Defense and the Department of
Homeland Security for the development of chemical microsensors.
Dr. Mlsna joined the chemistry faculty at
Mississippi
State
University
in 2009. http://tm613.chemistry.msstate.edu/
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