Ryan C Pacini

Bio

Throughout his career, Ryan has worked for various DoD, DOE, government, and civilian industries. He graduated from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO in 2009 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. During and after college, he work for biodiesel and automation startup companies, designing, developing, and deploying production automation hardware and software solutions from the ground up. 

In 2012 he joined Ball Aerospace as an embedded software engineer, designing Special Test Equipment (STE) for numerous DoD & NASA payloads including NASA's James Web and Roman Space Telescope. He continued is education in Quality & Mission Assurance focusing on industrial engineering, earning a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, and a contributor to many CMMI and AS9100 audits. Throughout his career in A&D, Ryan managed many small teams of engineers and soon became the matrix manager of the remote embedded software group operating out of Kirtland AFB and NASA Goddard. 

Ryan started with ORNL in 2022 as an Electrical, Instrumentation, & Controls (EI&C) engineer primarily working on the Electromagnetic Isotope Separator (EMIS) whose objective is to rebuild the nation's supply of Stable Isotopes (SI) for medical and national security endeavors. Primarily using Emerson's (formally NI) LabVIEW hardware & software solutions to support ongoing efforts to transition EMIS from R&D to Full-Scale Production slated in 2026.

Professional Experience

15+ years of experience in various electrical, instrumentation, & control industries; 1+ year at ORNL, 10 years in Aerospace & Defense, 3 years as an NI Alliance contractor, and 2 years in energy research.

Awards

LabVIEW Center of Excellence award from National Instruments

Ball Aerospace 2020 Mentor of the Quarter (Q3 & Q4)

Inspire Connect Achieve (ICA) Leadership Certificate

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Yellow Belt 

Education

Graduated from Colorado State University in 2009 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Specialized Equipment

Electromagnetic Isotope Separator (EMIS)