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Seattle, Wa

Voxa was founded to transform analytical nanoscale imaging. Nano-imaging is a key component of the technology development chain supporting broad industries including microchips, drug therapies, and surgical implants. Voxa's engineering and support teams are committed to bringing this technology to a broader base of scientists, engineers, educators & learners, and the public to unlock the nano-world.Voxa's award-winning Mochii "S" is the world's first field-portable electron microscope, able to take sophisticated laboratory analyses including chemical identification into new and extreme environments, including outer space. Mochii has arrived at the ISS to help detect crew and vehicle mission threats and perform novel microgravity science, and is the first instrument of its kind in space. Mochii will serve as part of the backbone of services as part of the ISS National Laboratory and is a research platform for exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Voxa also produces high-accessibility automated industrial imaging systems that push the limits of collaboration, acquisition speed, and data size, customized for transformative science. Voxa's solutions cover high-resolution and high-throughput imaging, sample preparation, and automation for customers around the world including in energy, neuroscience, medicine, and aerospace.

Seattle, Wa

Ack! Industries manufactures novel digital electronic bridge products and accessories for consumer hi‐fi audio systems. It also provides design services for consumer electronics firms.

Seattle, Wa

BeamDevices, Inc. provides contract design and manufacturing of particle beam and other scientific instrumentation, with clients in universities and research labs.

Redwood City, Ca

At Halcyon Molecular, I developed high-throughput DNA sequencing instrumentation based on electron microscopes (EM) that acquires image data 5-6 orders of magnitude faster than previous imaging technologies. I served as principal investigator for a $2.5M NIH grant funding a multidisciplinary team developing next-generation high-throughput and low-cost de novo gene sequencing technologies. Our team increased the speed of EM-based analyzers by 5 orders of magnitude and delivered the first ever sequence data from an EM-based DNA sequencer.

Kirkland, Wa

Designed, manufactured, and supported development of the world's highest-performance commercial scanning transmission electron microscope system. Executed several key subsystems, performed R&D and manufacturing logistics, presented work at conferences, and supported customers.Contributions include the world's highest-precision atomic-resolution sample stage, robust automated multi-sample handling, lens / deflector / detector systems, and mixed-signal acquisition and control electronics, software, and firmware.

Evanston, Il

Developed and implemented Precession Electron Diffraction (PED), a new nanodiffraction method that improves diffraction data quality from the electron microscope, enabling quick and inexpensive determination of atomic structure and grain orientation of nanocrystals. This work provided the theoretical basis and proof of concept for the many commercial PED systems actively used in research and industry today.Also conducted research on nanoparticles, nanocoatings, and catalysts, and built and operated supercomputing clusters for density-functional theory (DFT) atomic modeling of surfaces and interfaces.

Managed staff of 30 photographers for the daily newspaper at a top US journalism school.

Developed novel advanced polymer composites based on liquid crystals with higher strength and toughness at the Laboratory of Polymer Composites.

Phd, Materials Science & Engineering

Studied materials physics and developed new analytical tools, funded by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Bs, Materials Science & Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chief Photo Editor, Daily Northwestern; Network Administrator, Dept. of Materials Science

High School, General Engineering

Activities and Societies: Junior Engineering Technical Society

Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Developed new advanced polymer composites with higher strength and toughness.