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Beaverton, Oregon, United States

I lead an engineering team solving the most challenging and unique optics manufacturing and automation challenges at Leupold.

• Awarded Leupold's 2021 Innovation Award, for "out of the box thinking and contributions which have significantly helped drive Leupold and Steven's technical vision."• Lead engineer for program to develop new automated riflescope metrology equipment. Lead multi-disciplinary team through development lifecycle, from concept, requirements specification, POPs, system architecture, design, test, validation and delivery and qualification of multiple production systems. These systems provide over 30X reduction in cycle time compared to a previous processes, while also delivering orders of magnitude greater accuracy. • Invented new computer vision technologies to achieve desired system functionality and capability. • Wrote computer vision, control and desktop GUI software in C#, for multiple automated machines, integrating custom servo and stepper motion, pneumatics, cameras, sensors. web APIs and SQL databases.

Wilsonville, Oregon

• Developed, tested, and qualified machine vision solutions with new sensors and lighting designs for continuous motion dimensional & surface quality inspections, with millions of dollars of impact.• Leveraged area scan cameras, line scan cameras, multi-focal-plane cameras, confocal sensors, laser scanners and optical presence sensors, to solve difficult applications, with custom brightfield, darkfield, and coaxial lighting, backlighting, florescence, filtering, & polarization techniques.• Traveled to customer sites overseas to test and qualify custom sensors and metrology systems. • Managed a team of technicians to factory acceptance test precision metrology systems for electronics manufacturing. • Developed laser alignment machine for mirrors within automated cells, increasing internal manufacturing speed and accuracy.

Corvallis, Oregon

• Designed and built new interfaces and sensor hubs to improvetool intelligence, resulting in smarter tool and factory automation.• Developed software for photoresist pump configuration matching andtracking with automated report generation to improve processconstancy and save technician time.• Performed maintenance and repairs on photolithography tools. Helped develop process recipes for new products.• Improved process stability and product quality with statistical processcontrol by identifying and diagnosing special causes of variation.• Developed standards and procedures for thermal imaging tests tocatch impending equipment failures.

Corvallis, Oregon

• Improved wafer punchthrough detection capabilities of laser siliconmicro machining tools by over 10x. This contributed to an improvement in downstream yield andreduced wafer scrap.• Studied process time in fab area to generate a report on potentialcapacity for new products. Created laser tool recipes, documentedtool changes and wrote maintenance instructions to assure reliableand repeatable tool setup.• Trained wafer handling robots, used electron microscope to studymachining quality, replaced laser mirrors, shutters, and galvometerlenses. Diagnosed particle extraction vacuum control system issues,and leak tested new process gas lines.

Klamath Falls, Oregon

Compiled data over a year to develop a recommendation report detailing solar and geothermal power generation and overall system efficiency given weather, power demand, and other factors, through a Solar City research grant. Worked with a team to develop and fabricate a specialized weather station to monitor incoming solar radiation and panel efficiency.

Medford, Oregon Area

• Programmed microcontrollers which controlled fan speeds from a webinterface and a hand-held remote control. Wrote documentation totrain technicians new to the processes.• Assembled punch cut metal using various tools to build fan anddamper box units.

Ashland, Or

Spoke at seminars and gave product demos at internationalwholesale trade shows in various US cities. Managed creation of newwholesale accounts and built partnerships with customers to meetspecialized needs.

Ashland, Or

Diagnosed and repaired virus ridden, corrupted, or physically damaged computers. Data recovery on crashed HDD's and data migration. Built and configured workstations for clients.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Engineers Without Borders

Education record

Activities and Societies: Mu Alpha Theta, Wind Symphony, Water Polo