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Brent M. Pickett, Ph.D. Technical Director – Western Fire Center, Inc. 2204 Parrott Way, Kelso, WA 98632 – 360-423-1400

Education Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), Aug 2008 Concentration: Combustion, Energy, Wildland Fire Dissertation: Effects of Moisture on Combustion of Live Wildland Forest Fuels Synopsis: Combustion experiments and numerical modeling of individual live leaf samples over a flat- flame burner Relevant Courses: Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Kinetics, Numerical Methods, Combustion, Coal Combustion, Combustion Modeling, Analytical Heat Transfer, Radiation, Compressible Fluids B.S., Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), Apr 2005 Relevant Courses: Fluid Mechanics, Chemistry (Organic and Physical), Energy and Environment, Air Pollution, Separations, Process Control, Unit Operations, Plant Design, Partial Differential Equations

Work Experience Technical Director, Western Fire Center, Inc. (Kelso, WA), Jan 2012 – Present Concentration: Fire Safety, Fire Protection, Large- and Small-scale Fire Testing

Research Chemical Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory (Tyndall AFB, FL), Dec 2009 – Dec 2011 Concentration: Fire Safety, Composite Combustion, Alternative Fuels

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Air Force Research Laboratory (ORISE – Tyndall AFB, FL), Oct 2008 – Dec 2009 Concentration: Fire Safety, Composite Combustion, Alternative Fuels, Chemical Adsorption

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), Aug 2008 – Sep 2008 Concentration: Energy from Oil Shale, Wildland Fire

Research/Teaching Assistant, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), Nov 2004 – Aug 2008 Concentration: Combustion Experiment, Numerical Modeling, Automation of Data Acquisition, Technical Publications, Graded Tests/Papers, Substituted for Professor, Directed Students

Summer Intern: Sandia National Laboratory (Livermore, CA), Summers 2003, 2004 Concentration: CHEMKIN Software Simulations, Flame speeds