About Isaac Maya, PhD, PE (Nuclear)
Isaac Maya, PhD, PE (Nuclear), is the founder of IMTech LLC, a Florida engineering and technology-commercialization firm. IMTech helps researchers, startups and small businesses move technologies from the lab to the market, with a focus on federal R&D programs and the nuclear field.
Experience
- Director of Research and Associate Director of Transition & Commercialization at the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center, the first DHS Center of Excellence, University of Southern California
- Transition Program Co-Lead at the SENTRY DHS Center of Excellence, Northeastern University
- Transition Program Lead designee for the DHS Arctic Domain Awareness Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
- Executive Program Manager at the Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT), an $8.9M DoD-funded research consortium at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
- Director of Product Development and Engineering at Arral Industries, Ontario, CA
- Founder and executive (CEO, CFO, CTO) of several technology start-ups
- Lead and/or co-author of numerous federal proposals to DoD, DARPA and DOE, including SBIR/STTR technical volumes
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
Courses developed and taught
- ISE 515 Engineering Project Management, University of Southern California (Spring 2004 and Spring 2005). Updated and modernized the course, delivered it in class and over USC's Distance Education Network, and expanded it to cover Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Advanced program and project management seminars, including EVM, Dekker, Ltd., Los Angeles (Director of Curriculum, 2005-2009). Upgraded all company courses to the latest PMI PMBOK guidance.
- AME582 Nuclear Reactor Physics, University of Southern California (Spring 2013). A new course in USC Viterbi's Master's in Mechanical Engineering with a Nuclear Power specialization, delivered over the Distance Education Network.
- ME512 Introduction to Nuclear Power Engineering, California State University, Long Beach (1986).
- Nuclear PE exam review course, developed and delivered at General Atomics (1980).
- Lecturer in nuclear engineering, University of Florida (1977-1978); USC guest lecturer on technology transfer and commercialization (2000-2016).
- Corporate short courses: Executive Entrepreneur Program, TQM and ISO 9000, The Engineer as Manager, Effective Oral Presentations, and Winning Technical Proposals.
- Fellow, NASA Center for Program/Project Management (2004); panelist, "Project Management Training - The Road Ahead," NASA PM Challenge (2005).
Why this library exists
Most research results never become products. The guides, templates and episodes here package the processes Isaac has used in research centers, consortia and start-ups so that more teams can make that transition.