Allison Centamore Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Top Secret ClearanceZemaxMATLAB

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Lead Optical Engineer responsible for oversight of optical systems in non-contact biometric product line• Responsible for total product development lifecycle (analysis, modeling, requirements generation, parts selection, and testing) of optical components for advanced imaging systems• Primary interface to FBI and government test organizations for certification of non-contact fingerprint devices• Provide oversight of image processing algorithms and hardware changes from the perspective of maintaining certifications and legacy device interoperability• Work with multi-disciplinary organization (optical hardware, software, and mechanical design) to ensure the delivery of the best contactless fingerprint technology

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Taught high school geometry to upperclassmen with varying mathematical backgrounds. • Selected the text for the course.• Developed the curriculum.• Created syllabus, homework sets, solution sets, quizzes, tests, and exams.

Boulder, Colorado

• Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Clearance, DOD Secret Clearance• Designed and built optical test setups, executed tests, and performed data analysis.• Utilized core technical knowledge to solve problems and troubleshoot optical test setups.• Performed optical performance modeling and analysis tasks in support of system design.• Presented to customers and participated in customer demonstrations.• Responsible for acceptance testing and commissioning of optical test equipment.• Acted as a peer reviewer for optical engineering work products, test plans, and presentations.• Program expert for test equipment. Responsible engineer for briefing customer.• Worked with a multi-disciplinary team to meet optical design and verification testing goals.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Primary optical design engineer for Department of Defense contract• Identified limitations of existing planar waveguide design and redesigned channelized waveguides for use in integrated optoelectonic modules• Designed waveguides and executed experiments to optimize waveguide design• Created BeamProp models of planar, ridge, and tapered waveguides and polymer switches• Designed grating couplers

Norcross, Georgia

• Wrote requirements and test plans for optical networking systems• Tested hardware and software performance of optical system prototypes• Assisted in optical component design using Code V software

Alpharetta, Georgia

• Characterized planar light circuits for insertion loss, grating characteristics, index of refraction, mode profile, and polarization dependent loss• Worked with BeamProp and refractive index data to create models of diffused waveguides• Performed studies of waveguide claddings to determine optimum refractive index• Researched thermally sensitive polymers for use in variable optical attenuator prototypes

Norcross, Georgia

• Performed system verification tests on OC-192 BLSR SONET systems• Tested optical performance of 32 channel OC-192 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexers• Performed interoperability assessments

Huntsville, Albama

• Assisted in the evaluation of Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) proposals• Secret Clearance

Msece, Phd Candidate, Optics

Minored in Physics

Bse, Optical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Etta Kappa Nu, SPIE (Vice President and Founder of UAH Student Chapter)Minored in Mathematics.

Education record