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 HSO's new worldwide and region-targeted product pipelines. Proposing and managing R&D Optics budgets in real time, in four simultaneous currencies and three continents. Supervising direct reports in three countries.

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 this next-generation ICL flagship product for Staar Surgical. I am proud to state that this revolutionary product has received its CE mark as of July 2, 2020.Responsible for team building and development, laboratory creation, relationship and business development (internal and external partners), process optimization, in addition to serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the discipline of Optics.* Recruited, hired, and developed a highly-motivated and cross-disciplinary research and development team at Staar Surgical; leveraged informal team “huddles” to foster a highly-creative work culture in which all ideas were valued.* Provided project management oversight on 1) FDA-driven remediation efforts with respect to product development and validation as well as the 2) development of next-generation flagship products.* Orchestrated the design, construction, and outfitting of a new prototyping laboratory in just 6 weeks that included automated light control, CAT5 internet access, clean high-pressure air supply for optical tables, and 240V power connections for up to 3 optical lathes.* Three more pieces of pertinent IP published: https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Candido+Dionisio+Pinto&oq=inventor:(Candido+Dionisio+Pinto)

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 silicone-hydrogel-based Artificial Corneal Replacement.

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 hand-held devices to be utilized by the Department of Homeland Security; completed all projects ahead of schedule and significantly under budget (10% of allotted).

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 management, and IP disclosures/filings.

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 2009/0157179 A1).

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, and align workflows at globally-distributed sites (Hawaii, California, Chile, Canary Islands, India and Australia).

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 laboratory courses under Profs. Palmer and Shack. Handled grading, computer interfacing, and real-time troubleshooting.

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 of Spectra-Physics OEM fiber laser product, the most powerful in the industry to date. Designed and implemented new line of Optical Converters. Both Optical Converters and Fiber Lasers were transitioned to manufacture three months ahead of schedule and approximately $500,000 under budget. Established the manufacture and testing procedure for aforementioned product lines. Coordinated and devised the experiments which resolved the old problem of fiber-lens scattering losses, which plagued the high-power semiconductor laser industry for many years. Created novel illumination systems for using 2D stacks and a mixture of imaging and non-imaging optical components. Optimized luminous power transfer from laser diode arrays into arbitrary targets via design of optomechanical geometries and AR-coating optimization on fiber lasers and bundles.

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.