Jason Watts

ABOUT ME

A total of nineteen years in the nuclear industry plus six years in manufacturing. A summary of a few of my highlights are below.

Serve as technical and engineering oversight of projects valued up to 40 million.

Manage data in high security environments and infrastructures.

Strong statistical programming skills using R.

Strong dashboard development skills using Shiny.

Expertise in performing R analysis on Hive tables using Oracle R Connector.

Time series modelling and forecasting using ARIMA.

Noise analysis, filtering, and spectral decomposition of spectrum data.

Analyze quality control data to detect trends and anomalies from various instrumentation and equipment.

Develop and analyze multi-variable regression models to understand processing systems.

Expertise in pattern detection machine learning using kernal smoothing estimation.

Web programming using HTML, and JavaScript.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined November 2017

EXPERTISE

5 years experience

Develop scientific tools for data analysis through use of the statistical programming language R and associated tools. Prepare scientif...

Develop scientific tools for data analysis through use of the statistical programming language R and associated tools. Prepare scientific reports, produce publisher quality scientific graphics, and plots. Merge modern data science tools with nuclear data reliant applications. Build dashboards, cloud applications, and web frameworks using Shiny and R to process, control, analyze, display, and move data. Quantitative and qualitative gamma spectroscopy modeling and analysis. NDA consulting, implementing radio analytics tools to manage radio assay counting laboratory data, summarize, and group assay results.

SOCIAL PRESENCE

Community Posts

Counting Words with R

Text mining and word frequency analysis application using the R programming language.

A Quick Interactive Tool to Visualize Multiple Variable Correlations

A simple interactive shiny application to visualize Pearson correlations between variables.

EMPLOYMENTS

NDA Technical Program Manager

N/A

2017-09-01-Present

Manage multiple NDA projects and personnel. Author work instruction and develop technical basis documents.

Data Scientist

N/A

2016-02-01-Present

Develop scientific tools for data analysis through use of the statistical programming language R and associated tools. Prepare scientific...

Principal Scientist III

N/A

2016-05-01-2017-09-01

Serve as NDA Scientist at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. This includes consulting and advising in all areas of the non-destructi...

Serve as NDA Scientist at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. This includes consulting and advising in all areas of the non-destructive assay(NDA) of nuclear materials. Task and typical applications are gamma spectroscopy methods, HPGE and NaI detector efficiency modeling, neutron counting methods, data handling and analysis, measurement uncertainty estimation, and NDA operational methods.