About DEQ

DEQ Technical Sales, LLC is your value added supplier of radiation safety equipment. As a Manufacturer’s Representative, we work with some of the world's premier radiation safety equipment companies. With over 100 years of combined experience in radiation safety and health physics instrumentation, our technical staff stands ready to serve your Radiation Safety Equipment needs. Any application you may have will be met with our combined experience to help define the best choice of equipment to meet your needs. With decades of radiation safety and health physics instrumentation operational experience, along with undergraduate and graduate degrees in health physics, we are prepared to consult with you on the best possible equipment to meet your application. 

Ray McPhillips

President/Sales Engineer

7767 Maida Vale Circle

Powell, Tennessee 37849

Office: (865) 947-5123

Cell: (865) 621-5123

Fax: (865) 947-5121

Email: ray@deqtech.com

Ray McPhillips was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1950. He joined the US Navy in 1969 and served as a Missile Technician for 21 years in the US Navy Submarine force. He retired from the Navy in 1990 and went to work as QA Manager and Government Contracts Manager for Dosimeter Corporation of America.

After leaving Dosimeter Corporation, Ray went to work for a manufacturer's representative in the Southeastern US selling Ludlum instruments, as well as other radiation safety and Health Physics related equipment. In June of 2006, he formed DEQ Technical Sales, LLC with the intention of selling and servicing PCs. The company has now evolved into a full service manufacturer's representative company proving a full range of products and services for the radiation safety industry.

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Mike Shepherd, MSHP

Vice President/Sales Engineer

Cell: (770) 363-0925

Fax: (770) 497-9188

Email: mike@deqtech.com

Mike Shepherd received his Bachelor of Science in Health Physics from Oklahoma State University in 1981. After which he completed an internship in the Low-level Counting Laboratory at the Chem-Nuclear Low-level Waste Disposal Site in Barnwell, South Carolina. From there he went on complete a Master of Science Degree in Health Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982.

Mike then joined Eberline Instruments in Santa Fe, NM whose duties included the supply of Post-TMI process radiation monitoring equipment to the Nuclear Power Industry. In 1992, he moved, with his family, back to Atlanta, Georgia helping supply and support all radiation monitoring equipment sales for Eberline throughout the southeastern United States. In the Spring of 2007, Mike joined DEQ Technical Sales to help promote radiation monitoring instrument sales. With over 25 years of practical, applications experience in Health Physics and radiation safety equipment, he stands ready to help meet the Health Physics instrumentation needs of the nuclear industry.

Jeff Anspaugh

Health Physicist/Sales Engineer

1242 Stonehedge Way

Shelbyville, Indiana 46176

Phone: (317) 512-0010

Email: jeff@deqtech.com

Jeff Anspaugh graduated from the Health Physics program at Purdue University in 1985 and started his professional career as a Health Physicist at the Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant in Illinois. While at Braidwood, he was involved in all areas of Health Physics and managed the radiation detection instrumentation program.

Jeff joined Eberline Instruments in 1988 as Midwest Regional Sales Manager where he supported the Health Physics instrumentation needs of his Midwest customers. With over 20 years of Health Physics instrumentation experience and a strong commitment to customer service, Jeff joined DEQ Technical Sales in January 2008. His office is located in Shelbyville, Indiana, where he and his family live.

Ron Ulbrich

Sales Engineer

Phone: (801) 505-8767

Email: ron@deqtech.com

Ron Ulbrich grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated from Snow College in southern Utah.  His first job out of college was with Nuclear Controls and Electronics where he started as a draftsman but quickly rose through the ranks of manufacturing and then into engineering. Kaman Sciences bought this company and  transferred Ron to their headquarters in Colorado Springs where he became a systems sales engineer promoting state-of-the-art digital radiation monitoring systems for nuclear power plants. Ron joined Eberline Instruments in 1984 and remained there for nearly 20 years serving as a product line manager and marketing manager. 

In 2008, Ron joined Ludlum as the Marketing Manager and moved to Sweetwater, Texas with his family. Ron considers his time at Ludlum as the best he has ever had. His only regret is that he did not join them earlier. Ron believes strongly in Ludlum products, its people, and in their business ethics. Don Ludlum is his personal hero and it has been a thrill of a lifetime to work alongside him. Coming to work at DEQ affords Ron to continue serving Ludlum and rejoin two former Eberline colleagues, Mike and Jeff.

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