John P. Tapia

John P. Tapia leads the Accelerator Strategy Office (ASO) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As ASO Director, he oversees the planning efforts to ensure effective accelerator stewardship for the Laboratory. [Los Alamos is home to two major accelerator facilities; LANSCE and DARHT.] ASO supports the capture of accelerator-based capability needs supporting the Lab’s strategic objectives; investigating new accelerator technology mission applications; aiding in assessing and advancing conceptual and emergent accelerator technologies; and supporting the transition of new accelerator initiatives to large-scale accelerator projects.

Mr. Tapia joined the Laboratory in 1994 and has acquired 30 years of experience at a multi-billion-dollar organization demonstrating leadership and project management acumen on large scientific facility projects, including the construction of the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the ITER International Project in Cadarache, France, and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where he served as Director of Project Management. He completed a change-of-station appointment as a Program Manager in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Department of Energy, Office of Science. He was Project Manager for the Advanced Sources and Detectors Project through conceptual design and Critical Decision-1 and supported the capture of the $3.7B Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes project proposal. He is frequently invited to lead or serve as a key contributor in project peer reviews for large scientific construction projects ranging from $50 million to a $1+ billion for the Department of Energy and its laboratories.

He holds a Master of Science in project management from the George Washington University, a Master of Business Administration from the College of Santa Fe, and a bachelor’s degree in business from Eastern New Mexico University. He is a graduate of the DOE Project Leadership Institute (PLI), class of 2018; received his Project Management Progressional (PMP) certification in 2002; and recently was appointed to serve as a member of the DOE PLI Advisory Board.