Jacob G. Reynolds has a B.S. in Chemistry from Evergreen State College and M.S. in Soil Chemistry from the University of Idaho. He has 15 years experience in modeling chemical systems, including: soils, glass melters, off-gas treatment equipment, solid-liquid phase equilibrium, and ion exchange. Much of this work involved developing practical models that could be put inside efficient software tools, while maintaining statistical significance and underlying physical understanding. He has written more than 30 papers for reviewed journals or conference proceedings. Jacob is currently a process engineering manager for Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC, at the Hanford nuclear reservation.