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2009 winner Sreenivas Alampalli is the director of the Bridge Evaluation Services Bureau at the New York State Department of Transportation, where he has worked in various capacities since 1990. Prior to his current position, Alampalli worked in the Transportation Research and Development Bureau as interim director, the head of structures research and as an engineering research specialist. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990, and has taught at Rensselaer as well as at Union College in Schenectady. Born in Bangalore, India, Alampalli earned his B.S. in civil engineering from Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati before receiving his M.S. in the same field from the Indian Institute of Technology. He also holds an M.B.A. in management and technology from Rensselaer. A member of ASNT since 1992, Alampalli serves as the vice chair of the Committee on Infrastructure, which he previously chaired. A member of the ASNT Board of Directors from 2003 to 2006, he has combined his national involvement with the Society with local involvement, having served as chair of the Mohawk-Hudson Section from 2003 to 2005. A Fellow of ASNT since 2005, Alampalli has been a member of the Selection Committee and has been deeply involved in the organization of the Structural Materials Technology conferences. In addition to his ASNT activities, he is a Fellow of ASCE and ISHMII, is an associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, a member of the editorial board of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering and is the author or co-author of more than 250 technical publications.
2009 winner Gary R. Elder is the president and owner of Leak Testing Specialists, in Orlando, Florida, where he has been since 1995. Prior to this, he was the president of Gary Elder & Associates in Fort Myers, Florida. An active ASNT member since 1976, Elder currently serves as a committee chair for the Certification Management Council (CMC). He recently served as a member of the ASNT Board of Directors and has been involved in various capacities with the CMC since 1996. He was also chair of the Technical and Education Council’s Leak Testing Committee for ten years. Elder holds ASNT NDT Level III certification in ET, LT, MT, PT, RT, UT and VT, as well as ACCP Professional Level III certifications in MT, PT, RT and UT. He is a US Army veteran, and holds an M.S. in engineering management from the Missouri University at Rolla and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the same institution. He is the vice chair of ASTM Subcommittee E07.08 and is a licensed professional engineer in the states of Michigan and Florida.
2009 winner Greg A. Hudkins has been a member of ASNT since 1987, and is involved at both the local and national levels. After attending Ohio State University, Hudkins began working in the nuclear NDT field as an inspector, where he was exposed to inspection divers for the first time. Interested, Hudkins ended up working around the world as a diver performing underwater NDT. In 1992, he joined Exxon as a unit inspector, in which position he developed and supervised an in-house NDT organization. He held the position of inspection group supervisor for several years and is currently the quality support, inspection group supervisor in Turnaround and Majors, Mechanical Division. He has also held the ExxonMobil Materials Corrosion Inspection site representative position in the Best Practices Network Program. Hudkins is an active participant in the Greater Houston Section, which he served as Section chair in 2004–2005. He is a member of the Technical and Education Council’s Chemical and Petroleum Committee, and contributed to the ultrasonic testing volume of the third edition of the NDT Handbook series. Hudkins has participated in a number of ASNT conferences, including as technical program coordinator of the 2007 ICP-IIT and as co-chair of the ICP-IIT in 2009. He was named 2009 Mentor of the Year by the Greater Houston Section. Hudkins has held ASNT NDT Level III certification in MT, PT, UT and VT.
2009 winner George W. Johnson (not pictured) is the corporate RT Level III, radiation safety officer and corporate quality director of Capital X-ray Services in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has worked since helping found the company in 1965. His professional experience in NDT goes back to 1956, having worked for Conam, Thayer X-ray Company and Field Inspection Services prior to the establishment of Capital X-ray. A member of ASNT since 1964, Johnson has been very active in the area of NDT training, with thirty years of experience in conducting training courses in MT (Levels I and II), PT (Levels I and II), RT (radiation safety, Levels I and II, and film interpretation) and UT (Levels I and II). Many of these courses were conducted for the ASNT Oklahoma Section, while others were held for various petrochemical companies, power generator firms, steel fabricators and inspection providers. In addition, Johnson has conducted many classes for employees of Capital X-ray. An ASNT Fellow since 1984, Johnson served as the Oklahoma Section’s education chair from 1974 to 1987. He holds ASNT NDT Level III and ACCP Professional Level III certification in RT, as well as Level III certifications through his company in MT, PT and UT. He is a US Army veteran and a member of AWS and the Oklahoma Radiation Advisory Council.
2009 winner Ricky L. Morgan attended Purdue University and Miami University from 1979 to 1983, immediately following graduation from Madison High School. In 1983 Morgan joined the US Army as an infantryman. He completed his obligation, ending his term of service as a sergeant. Morgan enrolled at the College of Oceaneering in March 1987 and graduated that year. He was immediately employed by Ronald Nisbet Associates, where he started as a Level I assistant on a pipe gaging crew in a major refinery and progressed to lead field technician providing NDT services to a number of different industries. In 1990 Morgan was employed by Muldoon Marine Services, where he received his first Level III certification. Morgan has been registered deputy inspector for the Smith-Emery Company in Los Angeles since April 1994 and has become one of the leading structural steel inspectors in the area. He currently holds ASNT NDT Level III certification in MT, PT and UT. He is a Certified Welding Inspector with endorsements in structural drawings and high strength bolts through the American Welding Society and a Certified High Strength Bolting and Structural Steel Inspector through the International Code Council. A member of ASNT since 1987, Morgan has been very active in the Society. He is currently the vice president of ASNT and is a member of the SOC Awards Division and the Business and Finance, Ground Penetrating Radar, Operations, President’s Award Appeals, SNT-TC-1A Review, Strategic Planning, Technicians Advisory, Technician of the Year Selection, and Ultrasonics Committees. He has been actively involved in planning ASNT conferences on a national level and has been active at the local level as well. Morgan has served as an officer in the Greater Los Angeles Section, is an instructor of ultrasonic classes at Don Bosco Technical Institute and sits on the Student Advisory Board for Don Bosco’s Material Science Department. He received the Technician of the Year Award from ASNT in 1998 and was named an ASNT Fellow in 2003. Morgan is also a member of the American Welding Society, American Institute of Steel Construction, International Code Council and the American Legion.
Sreenivas Alampalli
Gary R. Elder
Greg A. Hudkins
Ricky L. Morgan
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