Aaron Montello, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States

Champlin, MN

Lead the Operations group at Prima Power Laserdyne – responsible for Proposals & Project Management, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, and Facilities.

Champlin, Minnesota, United States

Lead the Strategic Marketing activities for the LASERDYNE product line to ensure that financial, quality, and customer satisfaction goals of the product line are met. This includes: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product roadmap, and working closely with Engineering, Applications, Sales, Marketing, and Global.

Champlin, MN

Lead cross-functional projects improving the performance of Laserdyne systems, through increased capability, robustness and usability. Focus on enhancing existing applications and creating new opportunities through development and integration of optical, electro-optical, and mechanical components, assemblies and systems.

Development and use of picosecond pulsed laser system for Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering spectroscopy for Nonequilibrium plasma diagnostics.

• Laboratory research work within the Safety, Security and Protection Services Big Business R & D Lab on four projects in various areas of polymer chemistry
• Significant laboratory and pilot plant experience working within diverse business groups
• Co-inventor on US Patent #7439000, "High Clarity Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Films"

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

• Design, implementation, maintenance and use of a pulsed multi-laser system for Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) spectroscopy.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

• University President's Fellow • NSF IGERT Fellow • MS Thesis: “An Experimental Investigation of Water Droplet Growth, Deformation.

Bs, Applied Physics, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi Sigma member (physics honor society); Society of Physics Students member and chapter Vice President•.