M. Scott McKinley Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering / Health Physics, May, 2001
Masters in Nuclear Engineering, August, 1999
Masters in Health Physics, March, 1998
Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering, June 1995
MS Thesis: “Derivation of Second-Order Boundary Condition Perturbation Theory”
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Higher-Order Boundary Condition Perturbation Methods in Transport and Diffusion Theory”
Undergraduate GPA: 3.8/4.0 Graduate GPA: 3.7/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

February 2001 - Present	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Physicist, N-Division (E. Brooks, D. McNabb) Support nuclear data activities.
Spring 2000	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Teaching Practicum (F. Rahnema) Assisted in teaching nuclear and radiological design class
Fall 1997 - Spring 1999, Fall 1999	Farzad Rahnema, Alpharetta, GA AECB Consulting (F. Rahnema) Cross sections generation and output processing for CANDU research
Fall 1998 - Spring 1999	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Webmaster (F. Rahnema) Webmaster for ICTT '99 conference
Winter/Summer 1998	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching assistant for mechanical engineering design
June 1997 - August 1997	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA Practicum Assignment (W. K. Hensley) Worked on several HP problems and ported some HP programs to Java
September 1994 - June 1997	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Student Assistant (F. Rahnema) Assist Dr. Rahnema with computer code execution.
Co-op: Spring / Summer 1994, Spring 1992, Fall 1990	Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC Area: Probabilistic Risk Assessment (K.R. O’Kula) Executed and modified risk analysis computer codes and worked with reliability database.
Co-op: Spring / Summer 1993, Fall 1992	Area: Nuclear Engineering Section (D. Muhlbeir) Developed cost tracking system, calibration evaluation program, ran experiments, and created a graphing program.
Co-op: Fall 1991	Area: Measuring & Test Equipment (J. Roberts) Help create and maintain a DBase 3+ database to keep track of measuring and test equipment.
Co-op: Spring 1991	Area: Savannah River Technology Center (J. Aull) Created a computer program on a VAX to help convert Joshua 70 / FORTRAN 66 to Joshua 80 / FORTRAN 77.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages:	C++, C, BASIC, FORTRAN, JAVA, PYTHON
Operating Systems:	DOS, UNIX, LINUX, VMS, Mac OS, Windows
Codes:	MCNP, NJOY, TWODANT, HELIOS
Other:	MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, WordPerfect, Filemaker Pro, MacDraw, DBase 3+, HTML, LATEX, XML

HONORS

ORISE OCRWM Fellow (1998 - 2000)
ORISE Applied Health Physics Fellow (1996 - 1997)
Best Graduate Paper, ANS meeting in Albuquerque, NM, 1997
Westinghouse Savannah River Co. Total Quality Award, 1993
Dean’s List, Every quarter in attendance
Q DOE Security Clearance

ACTIVITIES

American Nuclear Society (Current Member)

PUBLICATIONS

M. S. McKinley, B. R. Beck, D. P. McNabb, Nuclear and Atomic Data Systems (NADS) Web Page, http://www-phys.llnl.gov/Research/CNP/nads/main.html, UCRL-WEB-152626 (2003).

W. K. Terry, A. M. Ougouag, F. Rahnema, M. S. McKinley, “Effects of Spatial Variations in Packing Fraction on Reactor Physics Parameters in Pebble-Bed Reactors”, Nuclear Mathematical and Computational Sciences: A Century in Review, A Century Anew, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, April 6-11 (2003).

M. S. McKinley and F. Rahnema, “Response Matrix Solution Using Boundary Condition Perturbation Theory for the Diffusion Approximation,” 2002 ANS RPD Topical Meeting, PHYSOR 2002, Seoul, Korea, October 7-10 (2002).

M. S. McKinley, E. D. Brooks, and A. Szoke, “Comparison of Implicit and Symbolic Implicit Monte Carlo Line Transport with Frequency Weight Vector Extension”, UCRL-ID-147898 (accepted by Journal of Computational Physics) (Presented to 2002 JOWOG-32s and NECDC 2002).

M. S. McKinley and F. Rahnema, “High-Order Boundary Condition Perturbation Theory for the Neutron Transport Equation,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 140, 3 (Mar. 2002).

M. S. McKinley and F. Rahnema, “Complete First-Order Boundary Condition Perturbation Theory for the Neutron Transport Equation”, The 2001 ANS International Meeting on Mathematical Methods for Nuclear Applications, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept 9-13, Am. Nucl. Soc. (2001).

F. Rahnema and M. S. McKinley, “High-Order Cross Section Homogenization Method,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 29, 875 (2002).

M. S. McKinley and F. Rahnema, “Higher-Order Boundary Condition Perturbation Theory for the Diffusion Approximation", Nucl. Sci. Eng., 136, 15 (Sept. 2000).

M. S. McKinley and F. Rahnema, “A Second-Order Accurate Eigenvalue Expression for Boundary Condition Perturbation”, International Conference on Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in Nuclear Applications, Madrid, Spain, Sept. 27-30, Am. Nucl. Soc. (1999).

F. Rahnema, S. Mosher, M. Pitts, M. S. McKinley, P. Akhtar, D. Serghiuta and R. J. J. Stamm’ler, “Void Reactivity Calculations in a Typical CANDU Cell Using MCNP and HELIOS,” International Conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology, Long Island, New York, USA, October 5-8, 1998, 1, 356, Am. Nucl. Soc. (1998).

W. M. Stacey, J. A. Favorite, M. J. Belanger, R. D. Granberg, S. L. Grimm, F. A. Kelly, S. Klima, J. S. Lahr, E. D. McKamey, M. S. McKinley, G. M. Nicholson, D. C. Noris, R. Rubilar, Z. L. Sasnett, G. J. Shott, M. J. Stinson, M. R. Sutton, A. H. Thatcher, R. J. Turmel, K. G. Veinot, “A Tokamak Tritium Production Reactor”, Fusion Technology, 32, 563, (Dec. 1997).

F. Rahnema and M. S. McKinley, “Comparison of ENDF/B-V and ENDF/B-VI.3 for Light Water Reactor Calculations,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 76, 324 (June 1997).

F. Rahnema and M. S. McKinley, “On the Validation of Release 3 of ENDF/B-VI Nuclear Data for Light Water Reactor Criticality Analysis”, Ann. Nucl. Energy, 24, No. 14, 1151 (1997).

M. S. McKinley, “ENDF/B-VI Cross Section Evaluation,” Eastern Region Student Paper Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 23-25, Am. Nucl. Soc. (1995).

REPORTS (Propertiary)

F. Rahnema, S. Mosher, M. Pitts, M. S. McKinley, “Void Reactivity Calculations, Final Report to the Atomic Control Board of Canada," FR-AECB-0698R, (June 30, 1998).

F. Rahnema, S. Mosher, M. S. McKinley, “Effect of Uncertainties in Nuclear Data on Void Reactivity, Final Report to the Atomic Control Board of Canada," FR1-AECB-0100R, (April 25, 2000).