Dave Jacobsen Email & Phone Number

Westford, Massachusetts, US

• Responsible for worldwide technical support during the sales process including phone, e-mail, and web meeting based support for TracePro, TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks, and OSLO optical design and analysis software.
• Produce, and deliver webinars and web based content to showcase software features and capabilities.
• Create new training course content including a new multi-day course on luminaire and optical system optimization.
• Deliver in-house, onsite, and online training classes in domestic and overseas markets including optimization, stray light analysis, and macro programming.
• Present seminars and workshops at technical conferences as well as author technical papers for publication and presentation including invited workshops at 2014 and 2015 LED Professional Symposiums.
• Provide design and consulting services for numerous light guide, backlighting, illumination, and high efficiency LED lighting systems.

US

• Collaborated and provided optical design and modeling expertise on worldwide projects including preliminary and final system performance calculations.
• Technical lead and principal optical designer for the development of a new and technology changing high powered xenon flashlamp system with non-imaging optics for a lithography application.
• Lead optical development on several medical sensing and analysis applications including scheduling and budgetary estimates.
• Authored papers presented at annual SPIE conferences.
• Assisted in the development of marketing strategies and materials to increase sales and growth of new and existing products.

• Designed and developed complex optical and electro-optical assemblies and sub-assemblies for medical, industrial, and commercial applications.
• Designed and developed UV, UV-Vis, Vis-NIR, and IR free space and fiber based diode array spectrometers including optical source and sampling optics design and development for large OEM applications including.
• Project manager/technical lead on several projects involving the development of optical systems for machine vision and medical applications, including interfacing with 3rd party vendors and the development of timelines.
• Optical testing, including radiometry, photometry, spectrometry, and illumination analysis.
• Designed and developed optical and electro-optical systems using a variety of light sources, including flashlamps, short arc lamps, metal halide lamps, and LEDs.