Summary
Joann Manges is a systems integrator and computational scientist with over two decades of experience designing and delivering real-time sensor, controls, and threat-detection systems for government and commercial customers. She has led multidisciplinary teams from concept through manufacturing and field deployment—contributing patented software for distributed sensor array analysis and winning multiple ORNL Significant Event Awards for project leadership. Her work spans DOE national labs and contractors, with deployed systems used in aerial, vehicle-mounted, and portal radiation detection programs across the US, UK, Australia, Japan and China. Known for bridging software, firmware, mechanical and scientific disciplines, she combines deep low-level real-time programming expertise (FORTRAN, C, Sun/Solaris, VAX/VMS-era systems) with modern system integration for industrial wireless sensors. Based in Oak Ridge and working toward PMP certification, she brings practical lab-to-market experience and a knack for turning complex nuclear analysis requirements into fielded, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Auburn University