John McLellan Taylor

John M. Taylor retired as the Manager of the Integrated Technologies and Systems Strategic Management Group Support Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He has a Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering from Stanford University and was a member of Sandia's Technical and Management Staff from 1975-2010. During that tenure, he published over 50 technical reports and papers. Prior to coming to Sandia he was assigned as Reactor Controls Officer on the USS Nautilus (SSN571). He served as the Science Advisor to the START Delegation in Geneva and as the DOE liaison to the State Department for the implementation of the post-Desert Storm cease-fire resolutions. He is the author or co-author of seven books: two on Catholicism in central New Mexico (”Dejad a Los Niņos, published by LPD Press, and “Catholics Along the Rio Grande, published by Arcadia Press), two on the Civil War in New Mexico (“Bloody Valverde” and “The Battle of Glorieta Pass,” both published by UNM Press), an anthology of stories from Valencia County (“Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem in the Rio Abajo”—co-authored with Richard Melzer), one on the science of soccer (“The Science of Soccer—a Bouncing Ball and a Banana Kick,” UNM Press), and one on a high school in southern California (“The Thacher School,” Arcadia Press). In addition, he has published numerous articles in various books and journals on Civil War, Catholic history, and soccer topics. He is married to Lynn and has four daughters and two granddaughters.