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Boulder, Co, Us

Product and Engineering consultant partnering with businesses to improve product strategy, market fit, product engineering, and production management systems.

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Managed a portfolio of 13 product lines achieving ~$2M in sales annually, including customer support, manufacturing interfacing, product definition, and custom product assessment and costing. Led Product Life Cycle of portfolio for product development, production release, launch, end of life. Interfaced at Exec level for BU strategic planning, resource management, product conceptualization.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Manager of five Product Engineering direct reports, assigning project technical lead resources and providing objective coaching for optimal team performance.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• US Program Manager of international team for Excelitas' only two Prime DoD contracts - to deliver a rifle-mounted electro-optical device (successful follow-on) and a thermal weapon sight.• Project Managed build-up of Land Product assembly capability in US by creating a lab with multiple advanced assembly work stations and facilitating transfer of knowledge from UK SMEs to Boulder Process owners and technicians.• Led US efforts for Land Business proposal (total multi-year value >$100mln), including proposal writing and editing, IRaD prototype project management, human resource identification, sub-contractor management, senior executive status reporting, supply chain and quality readiness, risk management, international compliance, configuration management, and writing of pre-contract plans.• Proposal Manager for successful bid to a DoD OTA contract.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Mentored junior process and product engineers in engineering discipline, technical, career, and life topics.• Developed multiple new optical component and assembly products for production, accounting for >$3 million in annual revenue from one portfolio. Performed Design of Experiments, Root Cause Analysis, and assumed systems engineering, technical lead, and customer interfacing roles as well as project manager during prototype/risk reduction phase.• Owned technical compliance and leadership of a process engineering team for NPI/prototype development of a suite of IR optical assemblies (~$1.8 million).• Project manager and technical lead for several smaller (<$300k) prototype projects, and assisted in developing project management tools and procedures to better align with ISO objectives for project and risk management.• Developed internal NPI Processes, focusing on risk management and status communication to key stakeholders.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- Manage technical development of a portfolio of optical components and assemblies.- Collaborate with customer engineering team to develop sustainable manufacturing process for optical components, including fully developing the assembly process for complex optical assemblies.- Perform environmental qualification of optical adhesive as well as comprehensive process experimentation to determine most influential process variables.- Communicate status of development efforts and transition to full rate production to customer and internal stakeholders.- Transition complex multi-component product to production level process. Estimated impact of >$10M in revenue over first 5 years.

GeNO LLC is a biopharmaceutical company focused on next generation products to addressunmet medical needs of patients with a variety of pulmonary and cardiac diseases.Contracted through Cameron Resources Group.

Fulfilled many roles in a startup environment - from sensor system design and implementation, to customer interaction and coming up with novel solutions to challenging industrial problems.- Designed and implemented, as part of a team, a full optical sensing architecture in a marine environment. Took part in the installation of sensors and interrogation system used for process monitoring in hazardous areas. Provided photonic expertise for refinement and design of future installations.- Managed team efforts to develop a novel fiber-optic based flow sensor. Conceived initial measurement concept and guided development and intellectual property efforts thereafter.- Worked with a team to devise a novel fiber-optic based sensor for downhole applications in the Oil and Gas space, leading to an internal development effort as well as a collaboration with a major O&G customer.- Provided technical guidance for several contract optical sensor development projects.- Curated a list of requested software and hardware improvements for the next two generations of interrogator product development.- Interfaced with potential customers to present FAZ capabilities and gather requirements, as well as with vendors to understand requirements for conversion of a product from development to production environment.- Used industry contacts to bring in potential customers and investors.- Facilitated closer relationship between US and Ireland offices by acting as engineering liaison. Relayed information from weekly conference calls to key staff members. Made initial contact and introductions between internal staff to foster better communication between offices. - Shepherded several innovations through the internal IP process, including interfacing with attorneys to convey the scope of inventions, creating graphics for explanation and use in patent application, and iterative editing of background and claims to align with the invention specifics and FAZ business strategy goals.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Evaluated patents and other intellectual property from UCF researchers and wrote technical summaries for use in marketing and licensing technologies.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Developed novel semiconductor laser systems for communications and signal processing. As a member of the Ultrafast Photonics Research Group, under the direction of Professor Peter Defyett, worked with a team to provide deliverables for research contracts through various government agencies in collaboration with industry partners.Built upon previous research to develop, construct, and test a novel frequency comb generation technique utilizing CW frequency laser injection locking of a semiconductor harmonically mode-locked laser. This became the basis for my doctoral thesis. I delivered the resulting frequency comb generator, the novelty of which was an easily tunable comb spacing, to an industry partner as a deliverable for the supporting program.As a deliverable for another program, I designed and built a prototype of a coupled opto-electronic oscillator (COEO). I trained engineers from our industry partner on the principles and operation of the system, and consulted on the construction of a near turnkey version of the COEO.During my CREOL and UP Group tenure, I mentored junior graduate students and collaborated on many research projects, both in the group and with researchers in other research groups. I was able to provide perspective and insight to various projects and topics such as ultra stable laser frequency combs, laser materials processing, semiconductor fabrication, and nanophotonic device design.

Rolla, Missouri, Us

Carried out a series of characterization tests for a material used as a passivation layer in Semiconductor processing.

Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, De

Performed research under the direction of Alex Horn at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology on the topic of “Focused Laser Beam Quality Determination Using Indirect Objective Scanning Technique.” The program was sponsored by the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.

Rolla, Mo, Us

Performed Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) on Cadmium washed Polyaniline gels to determine amount of Cadmium absorbed.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Optics And Photonics

Ms, Optics

Bs, Physics