Brian Condren

Background

About Brian Condren

Engineering is in my DNA. Love coding and I'm currently creating high level PowerBI dashboards using DAX to track my engineers progress and deliverables which helps keep everyone out of trouble. Previously I enjoyed coding using C#, ASP.NET, OpenGL, DirectX, and Delphi. Recently I'm stuck using the lowly Visual Basic for my Access databases, but it's all good. Electronic design was my passion early in my career designing liquid crystal display control circuits and microcontroller programming using the minimalist language of Assembly. Later I created lightning simulations using Pspice and OpenGL to visualize the voltage on a facility during a lightning strike. very cool. Evaluating rebar temperature rise from lightning strikes with C# and finite difference time domain software techniques to solve differential equations was intellectually stimulating. I created two new safety processes from scratch. One at Pantex in the Category 2 equipment program and one at CPChem in the IPL implementation program for PHA/LOPA/SIS. One of my favorite inventions was at Pantex when I designed an intrinsic bond detector which could prove conduit protruding from a concrete wall was connected to the rebar using a time domain reflectometer. I operated this device several hundred times and created dozens of reports documenting the findings to the delight of the DOE and DNFSB. So far things have been pretty sweet.