Northwest Nuclear Laboratories

Carl Greninger

President and founder. Carl Greninger worked at the Microsoft Corporation for 23 years and retired as Senior IT Manager for Devices and Engineering Services, Worldwide.  He has worked in the field of Computer Engineering for over 50 years and has spent over 15 years working for the US Army, Navy and Air Force as a contractor.  He also worked at the Boeing Space Flight Facility during the Apollo Missions and provided critical support to computer systems used by the Hanford Nuclear reservation during the cold war.  

Gordon bock

Vice President. Gordon enlisted in the US Navy immediately after high school where he both helped run naval nuclear reactors and served as a rescue swimmer.  After leaving the Navy he found his love in the blossoming computer industry and earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Programming at the University of Washington.  Gordon worked for UW Medicine implementing General Ledger and ERP systems before earning his MBA at the Milgard School of Business at the University of Washington.  He held managerial roles at UW Medicine and CHI Healthcare as well as serving for 6 years on the Group Health (now Kaiser) Leadership Advisory Board before leaving healthcare and starting a small technology company.  Gordon is currently engaged with Microsoft as a Project Manager helping improve global governance of PKI.

David Fink

Leadership Board Member.  Currently retired, David spent 23 years teaching.  He earned his BA in Zoology at Ohio State, conducted graduate education at the University of Texas and was certified by Texas A&M to teach Biology, Physical Science, and Chemistry.  David is a member of the National Science Teachers Association and Washington Science Teachers Association.  He is the founder and editor of newsletter for Texas Teachers of Physical Science.

david housley

David obtained his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho.  He has over thirty years of experience working on medical linear particle accelerators used in cancer treatments.  He has co-authored multiple professional journal articles related to field research, including international collaboration.  His professional interests include mixed-signal electronics design and mechatronics. 

George Stults

George is currently a Hardware Design Verification Engineer at Microsoft, working with Wi-Fi and test automation.  He started his career in electronics working with Fire Control Radar on the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom II Jet and later graduated from the University of Washington in 1995 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).  After a brief career as a video game programmer he returned to the hardware side of the house and has worked with worldwide regulatory compliance for networking and communications devices, including the design of low noise circuits to meet regulatory emission limits and Co-authored a patent “Network based Location Aware Configuration." 

Jerry Glaser

Jerry is a National Board Certified mathematics instructor with 38 years of experience teaching math through College level Calculus and Statistics. He has worked with Northwest Nuclear Laboratories for five years. Jerry received his BA in Mathematics in 1979 and his MBA in Financial Management in 1996 graduating Suma Cum Laude.  In 2014, he was Western Washington AFA Teacher of the Year and in 2015 he was awarded Washington State Teacher of the Year. He has helped lead numerous individual students and teams of students to The WSU Imagine Tomorrow Science Fairs, the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair and Intel International Science and Engineering Fair since 2012. 

SoYeon Yi

Dr. Yi studied at Gwangju Science High School.  She earned a Bachelor's,  Master's, and Doctorate degrees with a focus on mechanics at KAIST in Daejeon.  In 2008 Dr. Yi was selected to be an astronaut to represent South Korea and began training with the Russian Federal Space Agency.  Dr. Yi spent 10 days on the International Space Station where she conducted 18 experiments.  Dr. Yi is the only South Korean astronaut and the 3rd woman to enter space.  Dr. Yi earned her MBA from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.  Soyeon is currently a global professional speaker and Engineering Physics Professor at Everett Community College