President

Technology International, Inc.

11600 Georgetowne Court
Potomac, MD 20854

TEL: (301) 983-8247
FAX: (301) 299-5322
E-MAIL: bloomjl@erols.com

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  science policy; technology policy
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  energy technology; government cooperation; modern science and technology; nuclear technology; research and development (policies and systems); technological change; technology competition and cooperation; technology management; technology transfer
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  technology and social change

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

President, Technology International, Inc., 1983-present; Technical Director, Washington International Energy Group, 1991-1999; Director, Office of Nuclear and Energy Technology Affairs, Counselor for Scientific and Technological Affairs, Tokyo, Counselor for Scientific and Technological Affairs, London, US Department of State, 1973-83; Chief, Radiation Applications Branch, Division of Isotopes Development, Technical Assistant to Commissioner Nabrit, Assistant Director, Office of Nuclear Materials Safeguards, Division of Regulation, Technical Assistant to Chairman Seaborg, Technical Assistant to Chairman Schlesinger and Commissioner Doub, Technical Advisor to Assistant General Manager, Division of International Affairs, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1963-73; Program Manager, Nuclear Division, Martin-Marietta Corporation, 1960-63; Chief, Materials Management Branch, US Atomic Energy Commission, San Francisco Operations Office, 1956-60; Section Chief, Chemical Engineering Group, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1953-56; Research Engineer, California Research and Development Company, 1952-53; Research Engineer, Shell Chemical Corporation, 1948-52.

IN JAPAN: 1975-81 - foreign service; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Japan as a Model for a National Approach to Business Intelligence", in Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology (W.B. Ashton, R.A. Klarans, eds. Battelle Press, 1997); Survey of Direct US Private Capital Investment in Research and Development Facilities in Japan (with Rubinger) (National Science Foundation, 1991); Japan as a Scientific and Technological Superpower (National Technical Information Service, 1990); "Supply/Demand Relationships for Japanese Technical Information in Research and Development on Advanced Ceramics in the United States," Japanese Information in Science, Technology, and Commerce (October, 1989); Nihon no Kyoi [The Japanese Miracle] (Mita Press, 1992).