Candido D. Pinto, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Clemente, CA, US

Irvine, California, United States

Leading a multi-national R&D Engineering team in order to streamline Hoya Surgical Optics' pipeline and product registration into several markets and jurisdictions. Established a new US-based R&D facility in Orange County, California. Supporting Manufacturing, Clinical, Regulatory and Quality. Assurance teams as-needed.Helping establish a new strategy for.

Monrovia, CA

Creator of the new EVO Viva presbyopia correcting implantable collamer lens (ICL) posterior chamber phakic lens as a novel ophthalmic optics platform, combining a revolutionary new zoneless optic with the best and most versatile ophthalmic material in the industry today: STAAR Surgical's Collamer. Havinglead the optical design and metrology development of.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led the development of the world's first bio-inspired, truly-accommodating intra-ocular lens (IOL) by championing changes in lens design, manufacturing philosophy, as well as the implementation of a multi-disciplinary integration of engineering design (optical, mechanical) with chemistry and FEA methods.

Noth Haven, CT

Liaised between senior leadership teams from R&D, engineering, and marketing to champion the technological development of bio-photonics devices and methods (in-situ metrology for minimally-invasive surgery); successfully left five major patent filings after only one year which were subsequently developed into revolutionary new products by Medtronic.

Rochester, New York Area

Co-founded a medical device company with partner Dr. Yu-Chin Lai; included responsibility for business plan development, budgeting, and implementation of fundraising, business development, and commercialization plans; led development of the world’s first micro-incision-based accommodating intra-ocular lens implant as well as the world’s first.

Greater Boston Area

Performed design and development work for the Gordon Center for Sub-Surface Imaging Studies (CeNSSIS) and the Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) programs focused on research and educational programs related to real-time microscopic skin cancer detection and spectroscopic discrimination of organic compounds via inexpensive.

Rochester, New York Area

Provided technical and scientific leadership in the design, development, and implementation of new modeling techniques for optical design of soft contact and intra-ocular lenses; included responsibility for oversight of product design and characterization, experimental design, scientific thought leadership, cross-functional team facilitation, project.

Rochester, NY Area

Researched nonlinear light processing methods of ophthalmic materials for post-implantation refractive power adjustment of pseudophakic implants; successfully designed and prototyped the first ophthalmic lens to extended the depth of field to +1.50 diopters without discernible loss of Contrast Sensitivity (U.S. Patent Application Publication Number US.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Oversaw the development and upgrade of opto-mechanical solutions to optimize efficiency of GONG instrument operations; included responsibility for hiring and leading a technician team in close partnership with solar physicists to create new solutions to environmentally insulate the GONG interferometers against degradation, promote preventive maintenance.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Worked under supervision of Technology Department Chair, Dr. Lazaro Hong, teaching Introductory Electronics and Optical Testing courses to future technicians, both in the classroom and laboratory.

Managed undergraduate laboratory teaching facilities and supervised Graduate Teaching Assistants. Responsible for equipping labs and maintaining a workflow within budget. Developed new teaching experiments as well as procured hardware and troubleshot equipment. Taught and tutored undergraduate students as needed.

Worked under Prof. Bechtold in the MAESTRO Spectrograph project. Developed a new line of custom antireflection filters for optimal transmission and environmental resiliency. Finished tolerance analysis of MAESTRO optical system and performed stray light analysis of MAESTRO system using LightTools.

Worked under Dr. Nofziger, teaching and fine-tuning the newlyintroduced OPTI201 L course. Built, interfaced and networked three custom computers which are still in use in the Sophomore Laboratory facilities.Worked under Prof. Milster, developing two-photon absorption schemes for usage in data storage devices.Taught OPTI470A and 470B, senior optics.

Developed lensing schemes for high power laser diode beam shaping and fiber coupling. Designed, tested and utilized microlenses for diode bar fast-axis collimation. Partial design of diode packaging schemes to comply with optomechanical principles, including 2D stacks. Supervised and succeeded in finalizing the Optical and Optomechanical design integration.

Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering-Optical Materials

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Golden Key National Honor Societies

B.S., Optical Engineering - Graduation With Honors, Magna Cum Lauda

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, Eta Kappa Nu National Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor.