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Munich, Bavaria, De

 Support customers by evaluating technical feasibility of LED, IRED, and VCSEL solutions, and assisting in the design & development of their LED, lighting products Create materials and deliver training on LED products, applications, optics, and metrology to customers, sales reps, distributors, and Osram Opto colleagues Create proof-of-concept optical designs for various industrial and general lighting applications Lead construction of customer prototypes and sales demos Supervise college interns Familiar with the use of optical metrology equipment and test methods for lighting applications OSRAM OS Key Expert, Technical Field – Modelling

Munich, Bavaria, De

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

 Designed and developed next-generation automotive exterior lighting solutions utilizing LED light sources. Solutions included reflector, reflector/lens, TIR, and lightpipes built from optical-grade plastics and glass. Assisted in the construction and testing of functional prototypes. Supported Product Development group on customer programs with optical designs utilizing new lighting technologies. Generated intellectual property related to LED illumination Supported customer quotations with optical designs, feasibility studies, and functional prototypes, resulting in business wins

Worked for a humanitarian organization helping to develop systems for raising the quality of life for impoverished peoples in SE Asia. Established relationships with local leaders and recruited concerned people from the U.S. and Asia to visit work area and participate in short-term projects. Conducted English as a Second Language (ESL) projects.

Northville, Michigan, Us

 Designed and developed illumination systems for headlamps, fog lamps, and signal lamps from concept to production launch.  Assisted in the development and writing of proprietary optical analysis software. Used optical software (commercial and proprietary) and CAD software to develop optical designs. Performed photometric tests using photogoniometer and conducted subjective road evaluations of forward lighting. Debugged prototype, pre-production, and production lamps using visual laboratory analysis and photogoniometer.  Assisted in the construction of epoxy resin optical models and designed systems using halogen and HID light sources. Familiar with design of injection-molded plastic parts. Interfaced with customers on optical issues, at road evaluations, and also provided assistance to customers with assembly plant lamp aiming issues.  Interfaced with product and design engineering, quality, manufacturing, and program management departments.  Responsible for meeting legal requirements (DOT and ECE) for performance and aiming. Prepared samples and successfully received ECE certification for two lamp projects. Wrote several QS-9000 procedures, including laboratory test procedures.  Advanced from Engineer I to Engineer II, and finally to Senior Engineer.

 Responsible for project development and implementation of more than five on-going door handle projects.  Managed customer communication as company liaison on all projects. Directed coordination between customer and suppliers to finalize engineering changes and project timing. Worked directly with quality control, manufacturing, tooling, and testing departments; monitored cost impact of engineering changes; and maintained open issues list.

Terre Haute, In, Us

 Served as technical liaison between client and Center for Applied Optics Studies on a real-time system to sample size distribution of ore shipments.  Constructed laboratory prototype machine vision system to prove its feasibility. System consisted of a line-scan camera, frame grabber with hardware image processing algorithms, and custom software.  Assisted in writing software (C++ programming language). SoftwareOptical design and analysis: Light Tools, ASAP, DIALux, AGi32CAD: Rhino 3D, SolidWorks

Master Of Science, Applied Optics

Bachelor Of Science, Physics