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Scooter Johnson

Principal Physicist specializing in cryogenics, RF/microwave systems, and advanced materials R&D

HoneywellUC DavisBroomfield, CO15 Years ExperiencePrincipal Level

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R&D-focused aspiring founder building a business plan (with CPA/attorney support and a secured webpage) and preparing to seek external funding. Demonstrated ability to turn a customer need into an executed technical initiative—scoped requirements, pitched leadership, formed a team, built tools, and created physics-based models to inform thermal performance guidance for signal cables.

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Key Strengths

  • Identifies customer-driven technical opportunities and translates them into executed projects
  • Builds and leads teams to develop new tools and deliver results
  • Applies physics-based modeling and simulation to guide product/engineering decisions
  • Resourceful proof-of-concept and prototyping approach under constraints
  • Uses domain expertise plus market research to evaluate new venture ideas

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Experience

Chief Scientist DeputyHoneywell, Inc. · Mar 2025 – Present
Lead Physicist (TS/SCI Clearance)Honeywell, Inc. · Jan 2023 – Present
Sr. Advanced Physicist (TS/SCI Clearance)Honeywell, Inc. · Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Advanced Physicist, Cryogenics (TS/SCI Clearance)Honeywell, Inc. · Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Research Physicist, Full-Time Government Employee (Secret Clearance)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory · Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education (Secret Clearance)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory · Jan 2011 – Jan 2014contract
Physics LecturerMontgomery College · Jan 2014 – Jan 2014part-time
Assistant Physics InstructorUniversity of California Davis · Jan 2011 – Jan 2011part-time
Astronomy Teaching AssistantUniversity of California Davis · Jan 2010 – Jan 2011part-time
Physics Teaching AssistantUniversity of California Davis · Jan 2005 – Jan 2009part-time
Graduate Student ResearcherUniversity of California Davis · Jan 2005 – Jan 2011part-time
John S. Rogers Research InternLewis & Clark College · Jan 2004 – Jan 2005internship

Education

UC Davisdoctorate, Physics (2011)
UC Davismaster, Physics (2007)
Lewis & Clark Collegebachelor, Physics (2005)

Awards

  • Society for Physics Students Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
  • Sigma Pi Sigma Leadership Award
  • Mary Stuart Rogers Scholar
  • Sigma Pi Sigma National Honor Society

Skills

LeadershipStrategic planningBudget managementStakeholder managementPythonObject-oriented programming (OOP)Team mentoringBusiness strategic planningR&D managementTechnical roadmappingProposal developmentResource allocationPartnership managementGovernment program executionFunded research program management

Languages

English

Publications

37 publications

Cryogenics and low-temperature physicsSuperconductivityRF and microwave engineeringFerromagnetic resonance and spin-wave resonanceMagnetic materials and devices (circulators, filters, absorbers)Aerosol deposition and thermal spray/thin film depositionAtomic layer epitaxy and in situ synchrotron growth studiesCeramics and nanocrystalline filmsPower electronics materials and components

Memberships

  • American Physical Society

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Scooter JohnsonPrincipal Physicist specializing in cryogenics, RF/microwave systems, and advanced materials R&D