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Heavy client facing and customer focused role involving the sales and service of scientific instruments. Product lines represented include electron microscopes (SEMs, TEMs, and FIBs), micro computed tomography systems, elemental analysis equipment, specimen preparation equipment, software, accessories, supplies, and consumables within the product range..

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

-Develop and qualify process recipes for unique customer needs in Deep/Advanced Silicon Etch/DRIE, Oxide and Nitride Deposition and Etch (PECVD), III-V etch (GaN/GaAs/InGaN/AlGaN), Photomask Etch, and perform initial acceptance testing on site and final acceptance testing of Plasma-Therm units at customer sites-Improve Si Plasma Dicing product line to.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Photonic MEMS:Fabrication of light control devices for aerospace using a variety of fabrication processes:Sputter/Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), Lithography- Designing photomasks with Layout Editor, mask writer, mask development, photoresist spin coating and processingEtch- wet etch and dry etching.

Albany, New York Area

• Communicate with CNSE Administration including senior executives and advise with issues related to students and academics

Albany, New York Area

• Represent and inform graduate students of issues related to academics, research, internships, employment opportunities and recreational/social activities
• Organize social and academic events such as Science Cafes, annual CNSE student gatherings/outings, Women in Technology and Science (WiTS) conferences and panels, Relay for Life Teams, food drives and relief efforts
• Maintain public relations and hold outreach events
• Manage annual graduate activity budget of all graduate students at CNSE

Colleges Of Nanoscale Science And Engineering, Albany, NY

• Dissertation Research: Synthesis and characterization of polycrystalline ceria nanoparticles (and nanoceria supported metals) to measure antioxidant, redox potential and oxygen buffering capacity of ceria nanocrystals.
• Nanoparticle synthesis methods: wet precipitation, sol-gel peroxo, thermal decomposition/calcination and microemulsion
• Characterization: TEM and ImageJ/GIMP, X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRD) Rietveld Analyses, TEM Electron Diffraction and TEM Dark Field, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Spectrum Peak Fitting and TEM Electron Energy.
• Extensive TEM characterization of nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes, and ceria, alumina, and silica Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) slurries
• Back End of Line (BEOL) processes- Damascence Cu electroplating, Cu microstructure characterization (grain size and dislocations) in Cu interconnects/trenches/metallization structures
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM/EDS/EDX) and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) imaging of semiconducting and non-conducting samples

Albany, New York Area

• Encourage youth to pursue education and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields by participating in CNSE Nano Days, Buffalo Nano Day, NANOvember activities and CMOST camps

Landau, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Conducted research in the InterNano unit- nanoparticle analysis, electrochemistry and surface area/adsorption studies

Colleges Of Nanoscale Science And Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Albany, New York Area

North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lake Forest, IL

Grader and tutor for first year physics and Analytical Mechanics

Lake Forest, IL

Lake Forest, IL

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Nanoscale Science And Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Nanoscale Science And Engineering

Ba, Physics, Economics, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (Inducted 2010) • Omicron Delta Epsilon, The International Honor.