
About Us: People & Culture: Employee Stories
People with passion
The people of GTRI are passionate about their work. Discover why our dedicated professionals thrive as they pursue their life’s calling at GTRI.
| Name | Margie Brown | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Research Associate | |
| Starting position | Marketing Coordinator | |
| Years with GTRI | 18 | |
| What motivates you? | Our sponsors constantly keep us on our feet and keep our skills on the cutting edge. We don’t take anything for granted. | |
| Name | Josh Davis | ![]() |
| Title | Research Scientist I | |
| Starting position | Co-Op Student | |
| Years with GTRI | 10 | |
| What motivates you? | We thrive on solving hard problems—we’re focused on challenges. | |
| Name | Kevin Massey | ![]() |
| Title | Senior Research Engineer | |
| Starting position | Student Assistant | |
| Years with GTRI | 17 | |
| What motivates you? | My hope is that the work that I’m doing now will help save the lives of soldiers and help keep us safe from the bad guys. | |
| Name | Jerry Lett | ![]() |
| Title | Senior Research Associate | |
| Starting position | Research Associate II | |
| Years with GTRI | 23 | |
| What motivates you? | It’s great knowing that I can provide a service that is needed and appreciated and realizing that I contribute to a mission that makes the world better. | |
| Name | Jie Xu | ![]() |
| Title | Research Scientist II | |
| Starting position | Tech Temp | |
| Years with GTRI | 6 | |
| What motivates you? | My ultimate goal is to use my knowledge to help society. Developing new technologies to solve problems in real life gives me motivation each day. | |
| Name | Lee (sheiner) Montana | ![]() |
| Title | Research Engineer I, Assoc. Branch Head | |
| Starting position | Co-op Student | |
| Years with GTRI | 7 | |
| What makes GTRI Special? | I believe that the work we do is important, which gives me a sense of purpose that even my children notice. | |
| Name | Bryan Smith | ![]() |
| Title | Research Scientist I | |
| Starting position | Co-op Student | |
| Years with GTRI | 4 | |
| What makes GTRI Special? | The Learning and Growth program is incredibly helpful for junior researchers because it allows time to write papers or otherwise expand their knowledge. | |
| Name | Jeff Kemp | ![]() |
| Title | Senior Research Scientist | |
| Starting position | Co-op Student | |
| Years with GTRI | 18 | |
| What makes GTRI Special? | We have the chance to be involved with interesting projects from a wide variety of sources on a regular basis. This gives us the ability to do things that few other organizations have a chance to do. | |
| Name | Jay Sexton | ![]() |
| Title | Research Engineer II | |
| Starting position | Research Engineer I | |
| Years with GTRI | 8 | |
| What motivates you? | I’m motivated to do quality work every day on projects that make a difference and have a real impact on people’s lives. | |
| Name | David Roberts | ![]() |
| Title | Senior Research Scientist | |
| Starting position | Graduate Research Assistant | |
| Years with GTRI | 23 | |
| What motivates you? | My work is a creative act, and if I’m going to create something, I want it to be the best I can possibly deliver. | |
| Name | Dennis Brown | ![]() |
| Title | Machine Shop Manager | |
| Starting position | Mechanical Tech I | |
| Years with GTRI | 29 | |
| What makes GTRI Special? | We solve problems to help people and our environment. I would like to think that GTRI helps make the world a little bit better. | |
| Name | Craig Wyvill | ![]() |
| Title | Principal Research Engineer | |
| Starting position | Research Engineer II | |
| Years with GTRI | 29 | |
| What makes GTRI Special? | We have the unique ability to span the systems development cycle, from basic innovations to applied research to prototyping to field testing, all of which lets us truly innovate. | |
| Name | Paul Hawley | ![]() |
| Title | Administrative Manager II | |
| Starting position | Chemical Tech I | |
| Years with GTRI | 30 | |
| What motivates you? | I truly enjoy supporting GTRI’s researchers and feel good about helping them make a difference for our customers and for society. | |
| Name | Tim Strike | ![]() |
| Title | Chief Engineer | |
| Starting position | Research Technologist I | |
| Years with GTRI | 29 | |
| What makes GTRI Special? | A lot of our projects help protect people: defense projects to warn and train soldiers, medical projects for diagnostic and computer integration for patient care, and accessibility projects for the disabled. |















