Alcohol Countermeasures Program Staff Biography
Edward P. Conde
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College, NY, 1985
Mr. Conde has been working at the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center for twenty years. He worked for fifteen years in Volpe’s Explosive Detection Laboratory. His work in this Lab covered many aspects of explosive detection research, including Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Ion-Mobility Spectrometry, and the Finite Element modeling of explosive vapor transport in personnel screening portals for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Since 2001, Mr. Conde has worked in Volpe’s Alcohol Countermeasures Laboratory. In support of the NHTSA, he is the project leader conducting research and testing of alcohol testing devices for possible inclusion on NHTSA’s Conforming Products Lists (CPL’s). Devices need to pass testing according to NHTSA’s rigorous Model Specifications in order to be included on the CPL’s. Police and Transportation agencies use the CPL’s for guidance when selecting alcohol-measuring devices for their programs. Mr. Conde also runs the National Blood Proficiency Program that helps laboratories perform accurate blood alcohol testing. The Blood Proficiency Program prepares blood alcohol samples and ships them to laboratories around the country. Laboratories use these samples to calibrate their blood alcohol testing devices.
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