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Mark Brickhouse – Provost Second Gent – Baylor Magazine– 05/26/2021

MARK BRICKHOUSE, Ph.D.

467 Mourning Dove Lane

Lorena, TX 76655

mdbrickhouse@yahoo.com

Years of Professional Experience:  33

Education: Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Purdue University, 1988

B.S., Chemistry, College of William and Mary, 1983 

Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI (inactive)

WORK EXPERIENCE: 

Brickhouse Consultancy, LLC: President, 08/2017-present

The President of Brickhouse Consultancy, Mark David Brickhouse, is a Ph.D. Organic Chemist with 33 years’ experience in specialty chemicals, corporate and military Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), technical studies, proposal writing, contract management, strategic planning, technology scouting and event coordination.  www.brickhouseconsultancy.com

Dr. Brickhouse has served on staff at Baylor University, supporting Baylor Health with Contact Tracing and Wellness Checks as part of the University COVID-19 response.  He also served as Project Manager on a new research project studying the impact of the Emergency Meals to You Program on community nutrition and resilience, 

https://www.baylor.edu/hungerdatalab/index.php?id=97082

Brickhouse Consultancy, LLC supported efforts to grow the scale and eminence of geospatial research and training at Saint Louis University (SLU) from 2017-2020.  Dr. Brickhouse served as the SLU Geospatial Advisory, supporting the establishment of a University-wide Geospatial Institute, the award of the USGIF GEOINT certificate, the establishment of the new NGA CRADA and the hiring of Mr. Robert Cardillo as a SLU Distinguished Research Fellow. He also led community outreach and engagement, including the recent Geospatial 101 symposia, and the Geo-Resolution Conferences, a joint production of SLU and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), https://www.slu.edu/research/georesolution2020/

Dr. Brickhouse previously served as a member of the Booz Allen Hamilton Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction (cWMD) Analysis and Integration Team, as a subject matter expert in Chemistry, CB Defense and Decontamination.  He has also served as an SME in emerging chemical and sensor technologies,  and marketed Booz Allen Hamilton CBRNE capabilities to a range of DOD and civilian government agencies.  He worked for >10 years at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) as a contract chemist and agent worker, and ultimately as a GS-14 Team Leader for Decontamination Sciences and GS-15 Branch Chief for Chemical Sciences. His areas of expertise were in chemical agent analysis, laboratory and large-scale decontamination studies, novel decontaminants and emerging threat agents.   He has also served as a Research Chemist at W.R. Grace and Hercules, Inc., where he specialized in analytical chemistry, water-treatment chemistry, on-line sensors and specialty chemicals characterization.  

Booz Allen Hamilton: Lead Associate, 08/2008-08/2017; Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Chemistry, CB Defense, Open Source Analysis, Intelligence Community Support, Emerging Technologies, Emerging Threats, Contract Management, Proposals and Facilitation

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) 

  • Facilitated annual reviews of basic science initiatives at ECBC, and prepared quarterly reviews of new technologies and research efforts with CB Defense applicability
  • Prepared surveys and reviews of emerging technologies in analysis, collection and detection
  • Developed new strategies for agent simulant selection, innovation and rapid prototyping, and cooperative RDT&E with other organizations
  • Led development of a Program Plan for Test and Evaluation (T&E) support to Programs of Record (PORs) with emerging threat requirements, and supported the development of emerging threat agent simulants to support CB testing requirements.
  • Facilitated innovation initiatives such as the demonstration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as chemical samples

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

  • Served as a SME on emerging threat agents at the Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Analysis Cell (CWAC). 

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) J9 CB

  • Developed a new roadmap for the research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) qualification and transition of protective coatings, using market surveys, open source technology reviews and facilitated discussion groups from multiple DoD organizations.

National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) 

  • Led data mining and open source intelligence review on potentially disruptive technologies such as Brain Computer Interface (BCI) and Human Performance Modification (HPM)   

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Directorate 

  • Provided technical and logistical consultancy to the FBI-sponsored JASON Study on biomarkers of chemical agent exposure, La Jolla CA, 2014.

CBDP Program Analysis and Integration Office (PAIO)

  • Co-author of two reports, “Assessment of Science and Technology Transitions to Systems Acquisition”, and “The Chemical and Biological Materials Effects Testing Gap Analysis.” 
  • Coordinated updates and Comment Resolution Matrices for DODI 3150.09, “The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Survivability Policy, and DODI 5160.gg, “Procedures for the Management of the DoD Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP).”

Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense (MRICD)

  • Led development of a Technology Information Paper (TIP) to document the use of scopolamine as a candidate drug replacement in current and future medical countermeasures against nerve agent poisoning.
  • Produced a classified TIP to document additional performance of scopolamine as a medical countermeasure in novel scenarios

CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD)

  • Prepared comprehensive review of chemical sampling methods, and developed new paradigm for classification of sampling and detection methods, to inform development of new explosives detectors 

SURVIAC Task Order Management

  • Managed completion of SURVIAC DO 228, ~$800K total funding
  • Wrote and won SURVIAC DO 445 to provide CB Defense report, managed $3.3M total funding and completion of 35 Science and Technical Information (STI) products

Global Threat Mitigation Program (GTMP) Task Order for U.S. Army FORSCOM

  • Initiated a $1.7M GTMP subtask coordinating ECBC CB Defense research with FORSCOM emerging threat studies and analysis
  • Directed the GTMP Emerging Threat Think Tank (ET3), a series of three emerging threat Summits investigating mitigation and training required to address threats such as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), emerging Russian tactics and cyber-weapons.

Proposal Experience

  • Proposal lead for ARL SOCOM Chemical Biological Medical Systems (CBMS) Task Order, $1.7M award
  • Led Sample Evaluation Task Technical Volume production for ECBC Omnibus Contract, and a $9.6M Task Order Proposal for the CB Detection Division
  • Led first Booz Allen proposal under the Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC), $750K awarded to date
  • Supported Technical Volume production for the Recovered Chemical Munitions Disposal (RCMD) IDIQ (>$50M ceiling) and Defense Systems Technical Area Task (DSTAT) ECBC Task Order ($5.5M award)
  • Developed Emerging Threat Think Tank (ET3) internal investment as part of GTMP Task Order Proposal, (>$400M awarded to date on $950M ceiling)

ECBC: Chemical Sciences Division Chief, 01/2007-07/2008; Lab and Personnel Management, International Science Liaison

  • Led three CB Defense Research Branches with combined staff of 79 persons.
  • Maintained chemical and biological Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) status and managed chemical surety labs in three ECBC buildings. 
  • Led lab standard operating procedure (SOP) and Hazard Analysis reviews, lead Nested Safety Meetings for Chemical Sciences and supported annual Army Materiel Command (AMC) Surety inspections.
  • Coordinated ECBC participation in 2008 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Proficiency Test, for which the Center received an “A” grade. 
  • Coordinated emerging threat agent decontamination and chemical analysis efforts for R&T Directorate
  • Served as U.S. CB Defense and Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) representative for OPCW, NATO and emerging threat science meetings  

ECBC: Assistant Director for Technology, 07/2006-01/2007; Technology Demonstration and Transition

  • Acted as Technology Manager for an Advanced Technology Demonstration, Special Platform Interior Decontamination and Equipment Restoration (SPIDER), to achieve air qualification for new military aircraft interior decontamination. 
  • Secured Milestone B decision for Joint Material Decontamination System (JMDS) acquisition program identifying Modified Vaporous Hydrogen Peroxide (mVHP) as lead material solution for interiors and sensitive equipment decontamination. 

ECBC: Deputy Director for the R&T Directorate; 07/2006-01/2007, RDT&E Management and Planning

  • Served as line management for all R&T Senior Team Leaders, attended and chaired R&T Staff meetings and Director’s meeting, served on the ECBC Strategic Planning Committee and served as the Organic Chemistry representative in the threat agent Safety committee. 
  • Assisted in the construction of a comprehensive Science and Technology (S&T) research plan for emerging threat agents, and co-authored a White Paper for S&T research support for the design and construction of a new threat agent Test Chamber.  
  • Secure a decision to recombine Joint Platform Interior Decontamination (JPID) and Joint Sensitive Equipment Decontamination (JSED) acquisition programs into the new JMDS program.    

ECBC: Decontamination Sciences Branch Chief, 04/2002-07/2006; Management of CB Defense Research and Demonstrations

  • Supervised a multidisciplinary team, and grew the team from 12 to 25 government and contractor personnel. Responsible for overall planning, administration and personnel development of the team.  
  • Directed research into the development of new chemical and biological decontaminants. 
  • Managed the Congressionally-funded mVHP decontamination program with Steris Corp.  
  • Served as principle investigator for the Systematic Decontamination program, an interagency partnership in building decontamination with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development. 
  • Coordinated four large field trials of mVHP decontamination technology on aircraft and buildings and coordinated ECBC participation in Limited Objective Experiment (LOE) at Tyndall AFB for demonstration of mVHP applicability to sensitive equipment decontamination.  
  • Developed novel decontaminants and decontamination procedures to address a range of possible contamination scenarios, including buildings, aircraft interiors, equipment and wide area applications.  

Hercules, Inc., Wilmington, DE: NMR Laboratory Manager, 1999-2001: Characterization of Specialty Chemical Products

  • Provided real-time analytical support and intermediates and product characterization for oil-size process development, and provided analytical and process optimization support for hydrophobically-modified drainage and retention aids.  
  • Led multi-disciplinary analytical teams supporting development of novel corrosion inhibitors, paper treatment chemicals and functionalized cellulosics.  
  • Applied 2-D NMR to structure determination of proprietary Hercules products, unknowns and competitive products, and co-authored the chapter “2-D NMR Analysis of Ethylcellulose,” in the ACS Symposium Series (2002): Advances in NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers.  

GEO-CENTERS, Inc., APG, MD: Senior Scientist, 1997-1999; Characterization of CB Defense Materials

  • Coordinated multi-disciplinary analysis of complex samples for Research and Technology Directorate, ECBC 
  • Co-authored Journal of Chromatography article, “Multiple-technique Analytical Characterization of a Mixture Containing Chemical-Weapons Simulant from a Munition,” demonstrating how chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques could be used, without reference to spectral databases, to unambiguously identify unknown and complex chemical mixtures.  
  • Applied solids and liquids Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to the in-situ study of nerve and blister agent decontamination in solid and liquid decontaminant candidates.  
  • Established new surety NMR facility with Bruker AC-300 and Varian Inova 400 MHz NMR spectrometers, and implemented process control NMR capabilities using NMR automation hardware and software.  

EAI Corp., APG, MD:  Scientist, 1994-1997; Lab Design, Installation, Operation and International Coordination 

  • Managed selection and installation of state-of-the-art NMR spectrometers for the new Army Materials Command (AMC) Treaty Laboratory at ECBC, including Bruker Avance DRX-300 and DRX-500 MHz instruments
  • Coordinated with chromatography labs for analysis and identification of agent-related materials in samples provided by the OPCW.  
  • Developed NMR methods for identification and quantitation of chemical weapon (CW) agents and their neutralization products.  
  • Supported the Russian American Joint Evaluation Program (RAJEP) to determine the effectiveness of Russian demilitarization chemistry for VX stockpile destruction, and transferred NMR methods for characterization of neutralized Russian CW agents to the Russian Federation under Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act.  
  • Directed NMR analysis of test samples for the U.S. in the OPCW First Official Inter-laboratory Comparison Test (June 1996), for which the US received an “A” score.

W.R. Grace and Co., Columbia, MD:  Senior Research Chemist, 1988-1994; NMR Lab Management, Water Treatment Research and International Product Development 

  • Established a new chemometrics and chemical sensors research program for water treatment applications at W.R. Grace Washington Research Center (WRC).  
  • Co-inventor of the UA-2 on-line sensor for cooling tower treatment chemicals (U.S. Patent 5,242,602).  
  • Supported worldwide commercialization of UA-2 sensor, developed new, UV-detectable cooling water corrosion inhibitors and developed new methods for on-line analysis of metals in process waters.   
  • Worked with the Grace Dearborn Water treatment Division to develop proprietary process control sensors.  
  • Co-developed methods for analysis of water treatment chemicals by chemometrics analysis of ultraviolet (UV) absorbance spectra.  
  • Transferred UA-2 sensor technology to Grace Dearborn in Europe, coordinated sensor field trials in U.K. and trained Dearborn personnel in UA-2 operations.  
  • Led analytical research teams and performed NMR analyses of complex liquid and solid samples at the WRC Analytical Science Division.  

Selected Publications

M.D. Brickhouse, R.R. Squires, “Gas Phase Bronsted vs. Lewis Acid-Base Reactions of 6,6-Dimethylfulvene, A Sensitive Probe of the Electronic Structures of Organic Anions,”  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1988, 110, p. 2706.

M.D. Brickhouse, R.R. Squires, “Experimental Determination of Carbon vs. Oxygen Regioselectivity in Reactions of Gas-Phase Enolate Ions,”  J. Phys. Org. Chem, 1989, 2, p. 389.

S.T. Graul, M.D. Brickhouse, R.R. Squires, “Deuterium Isotope Fractionation Within Protonated Water Clusters in the Gas Phase,”  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990, 112, p. 631.

S.T. Graul, M.D. Brickhouse, R.R. Squires,  “Deuterium Isotope Fractionation Within Protonated Water Clusters in the Gas Phase,” ACS Symposium Series 502, 1992, p. 246.

L.J. Chyall, M.D. Brickhouse, M.E. Schnute, R.R. Squires, “Kinetic vs. Thermodynamic Control of Deprotonation of Unsymmetrical Ketones in the Gas Phase,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1994, 116, p. 8681.

W.R. Creasy, M.D. Brickhouse, K.M. Morrissey, J.R. Stuff, R.L. Cheicante, “Analysis of Chemical Weapons Decontamination Waste from Old Ton Containers from Johnston Atoll Using Multiple Analytical Techniques, “ Environ. Sci. Technol., 1999, 33, p. 2157

M.D. Brickhouse, W.R. Creasy, B.R. Williams, K.M. Morrissey, R.J. O’Connor, H.D. Durst, “Multiple-technique Analytical Characterization of a Mixture Containing Chemical-Weapons Simulant from a Munition,” J. Chromatogr. A, 2000, 883, p. 185

G.W. Wagner, P.W. Bartram, M.D. Brickhouse, T.R. Connell, W.R. Creasy, V.D. Henderson, J.W. Hovanec, K.M. Morrissey, J.R. Stuff, B.R. Williams, “Reactions of VX and GD with Gaseous Ozone,” J. Chem. Soc., Perkins Trans. 2, 2000, p.1267

Q.W. Xu, M.D. Brickhouse, H.M. Wang, “2-D NMR Analysis of Ethylcellulose,”  NMR SPECTROSCOPY OF POLYMERS IN SOLUTION AND IN THE SOLID STATE, ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, Vol. 834, 2003, pp. 325-335    

Laura Borland, Mark Brickhouse, Tracey Thomas and Augustus W. Fountain III, “Review of Chemical Signature Databases,” Anal Bioanal. Chem. (2010) 397:1019–1028 

Gregory Mogilevsky, Laura Borland, Mark Brickhouse, and Augustus W. Fountain, “Raman Spectroscopy for Homeland Security Applications,” International Journal of Spectroscopy, Volume 2012, Article ID 808079, 12 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/808079

Rebecca M. Braun, Mark D. Brickhouse, Megan C. Kuhfuss Golrick, Timothy J. Miller, Gregory Mogilevsky, Jessica M. Parker, Christopher R. Pope, “Review of U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Non-contact and Contact Detection of Chemicals on Surfaces,” ECBC-TR-1387, June 2016

“COVID-19 Community Stabilization and Sustainability Framework: An Integration of the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs and Social Determinants of Health,” Benjamin J. Ryan, Damon Coppola, Deon V. Canyon , Mark Brickhouse.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.109,

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2020