Smog Avenger Team

Before entering the private sector in the autumn of 2000, Dr. Jackson was an accelerator physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for 14 years. He received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1987, where he worked on particle accelerators since 1982. Dr. Jackson has published an extensive body of work in the areas of beam physics and accelerator technology. He was co-recipient of the 1999 IEEE Accelerator Technology Award for his design and construction leadership of a 2-mile circumference particle accelerator, was inducted as a fellow of the American Physical Society, and elevated to senior member of the IEEE. In 2000 Dr. Jackson received a Federal Energy and Water Management Award, and in 2002 he received a Federal Energy Saving Showcase Award. Jackson left the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as an employee in 2000, but has been a vital member of the laboratory community has an experimental user and a contractor providing consulting and fabrication services. From 2002 until 2007 he co-founded and operated Hbar Technologies, LLC. That company performed research and development projects for NASA and the DOD, as well as providing consulting services on cutting-edge technology issues. Dr. Jackon is currently a director of the Fox Valley Electric Automobile Association, where he enjoys working on electric conversion projects and exchanging ideas with the other members.

Gianni Tassotto received a Master’s Degree in nuclear physics from Northern Illinois University in 1975. Since October 1976 he has been working at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ("Fermilab") in various technical capacities. Gianni Tassotto is now working for the Accelerator Division at Fermilab building and testing beam monitors. In addition Gianni Tassotto participated in the installation of Segmented Wire Chambers (SWIC) profile monitors in the original Loma Linda Medical Center’s accelerator that was built and tested at Fermilab, and was also responsible for instrumenting the Superconducting Super-Collider (SSC) dipole magnets that culminated with a successful String Test in Texas. He is currently coordinating entry of the Smog Avenger product line in Europe.

Alexander Jarmusz is an Industrial and Systems Engineering student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He has been working with Green Light Industries, Inc. and Hbar Power, LLC to develop the technology of the Smog Avenger. He was a key contributor in the research and development behind the Smog Avenger. Alex previously worked on a golf course maintenance staff at Mistwood Golf Course in Romeoville, Illinois throughout his two summers of his college years. Alex has also interned at the Illinois Junior Golf Association for a year where he gained experience in the golf industry.

Jeffrey Manza graduated from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York in May 2008 receiving his Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship. He was the captain on a Division I golf team during his college years. Jeff has been recently added to the Smog Avenger staff for his entrepreneurial mindset to help market and sell the Smog Avenger. He has had many years of experience caddying, most recently at Chicago Golf Club. He has worked in the golf club sale industry at 2nd Swing Golf. He has been immersed in the golf industry for most of his life.

As an accomplished rock climber, Michael appreciates how important safety, attention to detail, and perserverence are in any job. He has been responsible for the fabrication of tooling as well as participating in mass-production activities. Starting with the development of the Smog Avenger line of catalytic converters, Michael has become adept at fast-turnaround prototype production.

Joe is an entrepreneur with several business interests including a high tech start-up in pattern recognition and a consulting company offering services in radiation protection and general business matters. Prior experience includes 13 years with Landauer, Inc. and 10 years with Amersham International (now GE Medical) in the UK and USA.

• VP, International (corporate officer) - Landauer Inc., an NYSE listed company.
  
• Director of 5 international JV companies with full P&L responsibility.
  
• Negotiated IP licensing, acquisitions and JV deals globally.
  
• Broad experience in global technology based service businesses.
  
• Physics degree (Hons) from University of Birmingham (UK).
• Certified Health Physicist with broad experience in radiation protection.
  
• Co-inventor on one patent and two patent applications under review.
  
• Managed product design, development and roll-out in RFID, software, instrumentation, sensors and non-destructive testing equipment.
  

Dr. Babcock joined Hbar Technologies in the spring of 2006. Before that, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Ultramet for 6 years, during which time he secured over $3.5 million in government funding to support his research into advanced materials, coatings, and catalysts for the aerospace industry. He received his doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1998, and then spent two years as a postdoctoral associate studying chemical vapor deposition in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He has extensive experience in designing refractory and ceramic materials systems that can withstand extreme environments for a wide variety of applications. Dr. Babcock holds four patents, and his published work has focused on inorganic and organic chemical synthesis, deposition of transparent conducting oxide and superconducting thin films, fabrication of ceramic and metal components and coatings for rocket and turbine engines, catalytic decomposition of chemical propellants, and catalytic remediation of volatile organic compounds, the latter two focusing on the use of nanomaterials.

Dr. Steven D. Howe was appointed the first Director of the Center for Space Nuclear Research (CSNR) on August 12, 2005. Dr. Howe was a staff member in the Thermonuclear Applications group of the Applied Physics Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His undergraduate and graduate work was in Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University (B.S., 1975; Ph.D., 1980. Dr. Howe’s research interests include antiproton physics and applications, nuclear rocket propulsion, hyper-velocity aerodynamics and thermodynamics, and non-equilibrium x-ray emission. He has published over fifty reports in the open literature, as well as nine classified reports. In addition, Dr. Howe is a fiction writer, having published the novella, Wrench and Claw, in Analog Magazine and the novel, Honor Bound Honor Born, which detailed the possible development of the first commercial base on the Moon. Dr. Howe has also appeared in numerous television programs about space and rocketry. His television credits include: "Living and Working in Space," PBS and Sci-Fi Channel; "Mission to Mars," Ultra Science, the Learning Channel; "Rocketships," Discovery Channel (June ’98); "Rockets in Space," Wingspan (August ’98); and "Voyage to the Milky Way," PBS, May ’99. Dr. Howe holds five patents involving the storage and application of antiprotons, and he is the co-founder of Hbar Technologies, LLC headquartered near Chicago. Dr. Howe has served on a number of national committees, the most recent being the National Academy of Sciences Committee on "Space Missions Enabled by Nuclear Propulsion."