James Powell

Advanced LabVIEW developer with a strong scientific background available for contract projects.

I started using LabVIEW in about 1998 while I was a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. I used it to manipulate and transport radioactive gases to create something called a radioactive ion beam. I then started to do smaller-scale automation of radiochemistry for PET medical scans. From that I became the “LabVIEW expert” and did lots of automation tasks at LBNL and UCSF. I moved to Oxford in 2010 and have been doing independent consulting, both remotely for clients back in California and locally.

I’m the author of a few LabVIEW packages on the LabVIEW Tools Network, notably "JSONtext", “SQLite Library” and “Messenger Library”, the later being the package I use for “actor model”-style programing.

My physicist background is in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, and I have extensive experience in supporting medical radiochemistry, x-ray characterization of scintillators, and spectrometers and other scientific instruments.

LabVIEW experience include advanced User Interfaces, LVOOP, plugins, actor-oriented architecture, SQLite embedded database, and the 3D picture display.

I am “drjdpowell” on both LAVAg.org and NI.com.