FLC’s Regional Coordinators and Deputy Regional Coordinators are elected volunteers that lead technology transfer activities among member labs in their respective regions.
Stephen Crutchfield is the deputy of the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific Technology Transfer (T2) office. In this role, he promotes, facilitates and expands T2 activities for the lab utilizing CRADAs, licensing and partnerships. He also assesses lab research while promoting and marketing the lab’s technologies and innovations that may have commercial appeal.
Stephen began his tech transfer career in 2009 by developing marketing materials to promote NIWC Pacific technologies available for commercialization. His responsibilities grew to encompass all things T2, including agreement facilitation (CRADAs, license agreements, education partnership agreements and partnership intermediary agreements), innovation ecosystem engagement, invention assessment, marketing and T2 training for NIWC Pacific employees. He has facilitated over 150 T2 agreements covering a broad range of topics.
Stephen holds a double BA in communications and religion from Vanguard University and an MA in television, film and new media production from San Diego State University.
Michael Riccio is a Program Specialist with the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Technology Transfer (T2) Office, where he supports both core T2 operations and strategic outreach initiatives. In his operational role, he manages invention disclosures, patenting actions, and licensing activities that help advance NASA innovations from the lab to the marketplace. He also serves as part of the NASA T2X team, leading efforts to expand the agency’s presence within regional and national innovation ecosystems. His outreach work includes building presence with entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, incubators, accelerators, and universities to promote the use of NASA technologies in economic and societal impact.
After earning his B.B.A. from Georgia State University in 2008, Michael began his federal career with the Department of the Army, where he transitioned from intern to full time civil servant supporting training and leader development programs. He later joined the U.S. Forest Service, focusing on human resources operations. In 2015, he accepted a position with NASA’s ARC. Over the years, he supported the ARC Technology Transfer Office as an HR Business Partner, gaining deep familiarity with its mission, before formally joining the team in 2024.
Through the NASA T2X program, Michael has cultivated academic collaborations under the T2U initiative with institutions including the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, and Georgia Tech. He has championed the use of NASA technologies in university curriculum and community innovation challenges such as HackATL. He also regularly speaks at regional tech events, coworking spaces, accelerators, incubators, science fairs, and major trade shows to promote the value and accessibility of NASA intellectual property. In 2025, he represented NASA as part of the FLC intra agency delegation at CES, an experience that reinforced for him the national reach and importance of the FLC. Michael has received multiple recognitions throughout his federal career, including the Department of the Army’s Civilian Early Career Achievement Medal for his work on new employee onboarding programs, as well as numerous group achievement and spotlight awards at NASA. The FLC played a formative role in his own development as a technology transfer professional, and he aims to give back by strengthening regional collaboration, supporting effective technology transfer practices, and advancing the strategic goals of both NASA and the FLC.
Amanda Corbel is the partnership alliance manager at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), the only federal laboratory focused solely on biomedical research. Within the Center for Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Amanda supports the FNLCR’s mission to accelerate progress against cancer and AIDS by creating partnerships between the lab’s scientists and external research communities. She also manages programs that aim to advance scientific discoveries and inventions through the development pipeline to de-risk and attract technologies for both partnering and licensing.
Amanda has been an active member of the FLC since 2020, and she is deeply involved in the Mid-Atlantic Region activities. She has supported the current Mid-Atlantic Regional and Deputy Regional Coordinators in surveying and meeting various laboratories in the region to learn more about their technology transfer, licensing and business development activities. By engaging the labs, they identified common problems across the agencies. This process led to a pilot program, the Federal Lab Education Accelerator (FLEX), to address a common lack necessary resources for active marketing, licensing and general technology assessment FLEX fosters long-term collaborations between federal labs and academic institutions by connecting entrepreneurial students with federal labs’ technology portfolios. Amanda has led FLEX since its launch in 2021, and as the FLEX program manager, she maintains close relationships with the participating federal laboratories' tech transfer staff and inventors. FLEX has now expanded to all FLC regions, and all federal labs are invited to join. Currently, more than 20 federal labs and 10 universities are participating in FLEX, and the FLEX portfolio includes more than 100 federal technologies.
In addition to her role in the FLEX program, Amanda is a member of the FLC Facilitate Committee. As a member of the Facilitate Committee, she works with committee members on ways to increase engagement and partnerships that connect the private sector with federal laboratories. She also helped plan and organize the 2021 Mid-Atlantic & Northeast Regional Meeting, 2022 Mid-Atlantic Partnering for Economic Development Meeting and FLC FLEX Program Member Connect.
She holds a BS in biology from Shepherd University and an MS in biotechnology and business management from Mount Saint Mary’s University. She is also a certified project management professional through the Project Management Institute. She is currently pursuing her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Christie Canaria serves as the Industry Engagement Lead for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Technology Partnerships Office (TPO), where she works across federal laboratories, academic institutions, and commercial partners to strengthen pathways for technology adoption, partnership development, and innovation ecosystem growth. Her role supports NIST’s mission to accelerate the transfer of federal research into real-world impact and expand opportunities for collaboration across the national innovation landscape.
Prior to joining TPO, Christie served as Senior Advisor and Associate Director for Commercialization in the NIST CHIPS Research and Development (R&D) Office. She led commercialization strategy, governance development, and ecosystem engagement for a multi-billion-dollar national semiconductor R&D portfolio. Her work included shaping the vision for the National Semiconductor Technology Center, designing cross-agency coordination frameworks, and developing approaches to measure return on investment for federal R&D. These efforts strengthened her commitment to building bridges across agencies and sectors. She carries these experiences forward to the Mid-Atlantic region.
Christie’s career spans federal service and industry. Before entering government, she worked at Illumina during its formative pre- and post-IPO stages, gaining firsthand experience in high-growth biotechnology, product development, and customer-driven innovation. She later held leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she advanced technology commercialization, entrepreneurial training, and public-private partnerships.
Christie has been an active member of the Federal Laboratory Consortium, including service as Chair of the Industry Engagement Subcommittee in 2022, where she conducted outreach and public-facing engagement efforts to strengthen connections between federal labs and industry. She holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego.
Nick Velasquez is the Manager of Global & Nuclear Security Partnerships at Sandia National Laboratories, where he leads strategic business development for national security programs. Since joining Sandia in 2018, he’s helped build impactful partnerships across the Department of Defense, delivering mission-aligned outcomes and new funding opportunities.
Nick’s prior roles include leadership positions at Delta Dental of New Mexico and Hewlett-Packard, where he drove major growth in both the healthcare and technology sectors. He holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of New Mexico and remains active in his community through youth sports and leadership nonprofits.
Dr. Sarah Hibbs-Shipp is the Technology Transfer Manager and leader of the Regulatory Support Services Unit at the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC). Prior to joining the NWRC, she was the Director of Communications for Colorado State University’s (CSU) STRATA, the technology transfer unit supporting the CSU system.
During this time, Sarah ran and facilitated numerous educational initiatives, outreach programs, and symposia about intellectual property, technology transfer, and company startup activities. She worked with faculty and student inventors to effectively showcase and market their innovations and managed external communications to include press releases, social media, and the CSU STRATA website. Sarah’s technology transfer experience built upon 14 years of work in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic research world, managing dermatology-focused Phase I-IV human clinical trials and numerous efficacy/claim substantiation cosmetic studies.
Meghan Sheehan is a technology transfer professional with over 15 years of experience, currently serving as Federal Technology Transfer Act (FTTA) specialist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before joining the EPA, Meghan held positions in academic and nonprofit technology transfer offices and led a technology transitions team at an Air Force Research Laboratory Partner Intermediary and Innovation Institute. Meghan is passionate about finding the right partner to move innovations forward on the development pathway to becoming fielded products and services that make a difference for the public good.
At the EPA, Meghan is part of a team that performs Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) functions for the entire agency. Her main roles include invention mining, marketing and sourcing strategic partners for invention development. Additionally, she assists in the creation and negotiation of technology transfer agreements including CRADAs, data use agreements, material transfer agreements, and non-disclosure agreements. Meghan is an active member of FLC’s Awards Subcommittee, and she previously served on the Lab-to-Market Tech Transfer Tools and Services Subcommittee.
Meghan has a BS from Calvin College and a JD from School of Law at Case Western Reserve University. She registered as a patent agent in 2007 and Certified Licensing Professional in 2020.
Joshua Laravie is the Lead Technology Transfer Specialist, Office of Research and Technology Applications, for the Aerospace Systems Directorate in the Air Force Research Laboratory. He collaborates with stakeholders to provide mission support for the Directorate in the areas of technology transfer (T2), intellectual property (IP), and domestic partnering. He explores, recommends, and supports new and existing T2 and partnering program initiatives. Joshua also acts as Subject Matter Expert to solve T2 problems and evolving mission requirements, provides patent portfolio management for license applications and commercialization plans, negotiates patent license agreements, and manages technical and financial compliance. This includes advising on, developing, negotiating, modifying, and managing intellectual property and T2 instruments, such as Patent License Agreements, Software Licenses, Educational Partnerships, Commercial Test Agreements, Information Transfer Agreements, and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements. He also handles the process of capturing and protecting IP, helping to identify and transition technical solutions, and enabling partnerships in support of the Directorate’s mission.
Joshua holds an MBA and has 10 years of program and laboratory management experience. He has more than 10 years of experience in customer relationship management and general business experience. He has co-facilitated T2 IP commercialization and marketing trainings at two FLC National Meetings.
David Zimmerman is the Strategic Partnership Officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where he builds collaborations with industry in fusion energy, microelectronics, clean energy, and quantum. His career spans roles as a scientist, startup leader, IP attorney, and technology transfer professional across national labs, law firms, and universities.
David holds a PhD in experimental high-energy physics and a JD. He has taught the Intellectual Property course at the FLC National Meeting for the past three years and is a committed advocate for strengthening the federal tech transfer community.
Jordan Mizerak is a Senior Technology Manager at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads the IP and Technology Valuation team within the Technology Transfer Office. He oversees invention disclosures, patent strategy, and licensing efforts for a $1.5 billion research portfolio and chairs the lab’s Patent Committee.
Jordan also manages data systems integration and supports government transfers and external collaborations. He has contributed to multiple FLC award-winning submissions, helping MIT LL earn several Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards.
Kristine Moes is a VA Field Technology Transfer Specialist based in Tampa, Florida serving the VA medical centers in the state of Florida. She is responsible for negotiating technology and research-related agreements with private sector companies, Universities and other public and private entities and directs the prosecution of patent portfolios arising from the efforts of VA inventors within the state. She also manages VA-University relations related to technology transfer occurring at the VA research centers in Florida.
Kristine has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a Juris Doctorate from Stetson University College of Law. It was during her final year of law school that her love for technology transfer became apparent, she interned with the University of South Florida (USF) Technology Transfer Office.
Prior to arriving at the VA, Kristine was a Licensing Associate at USF for five years. At USF Kristine started as part of the Physical Sciences team but quickly showed that she had knowledge useful in medical device technologies. Her docket became a combination of physical and life sciences. She was responsible for managing her portfolio of technologies from initial disclosure through licensing and the maintenance of the licenses. She has also worked with start-up companies formed at the University that leveraged the Florida High Tech Corridor Matching grants program and the ICORPs program.
Sidney Dills has served as the Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) within the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) since July 2025. In this role, she serves as the principal advisor for technology transfer (T2) and builds strategic partnerships with federal laboratories, industry, and universities to advance meteorology and oceanography (METOC) capabilities.
Sidney has revitalized the command's Tech Transfer program, executing over 40 agreements and securing nearly $35 million in external R&D and transition capital. Under her leadership, she re-established the Gulf Coast Tech Bridge, established two Partnership Intermediary Agreements (PIAs) with regional accelerators, and built strong ties to fleet experimentation across two fleets. She also brought the program to 100% compliance, created a command-wide T2 dashboard, and hosted an EPA Innovation Day at Stennis for over 70 students. Nationally, she represents CNMOC within the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC), participating in Lab Showcases, the FLC national meeting, and serving as an annual calendar judge.
Before joining CNMOC, Sidney worked in scientific public outreach and education, then joined the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)'s Navigation Support Division in 2018, traveling as lead scientist aboard hydrographic survey vessels. From 2021 to 2025, she worked in CNMOC's International Programs department, re-establishing the Foreign Military Sales portfolio, launching the first reciprocal Partner Exchange Program by USN METOC, leading seven R&D agreements, and supporting flag-level engagements with Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK, and Taiwan. She also served as lead Foreign Disclosure Officer for USN METOC information and briefly stepped into the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff N5 role.
Sidney holds a B.S. in Physics from Furman University and an M.S. in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Calgary. She was named 2023 CNMOC Junior Employee of the Year and received the 2025 CAPT James Stagg METOC Efficiency Award on behalf of the UK Royal Navy.