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Boulder, CO

• Managed complete product lifecycle from proposal through closure and customer support including budgets, work plans, product design specifications, acceptance plans, training, documentation, delivery, installation and.
• Directed more than 90% of company revenue; responsible for scope, schedule, fee, and financials.
• Primary contact between… Show more
• Primary contact between customer and organization as well as between management and technical team; coordinated and led weekly+ reviews with clients and HW/SW teams to develop requirements document, provide program.
• Led teams and coordinated all program activities; installed more than 20 custom machine vision systems into high-volume manufacturing environments within defined scope, timeline and budget.
• Implemented templates, checklists and procedures to enhance bandwidth to fulfill role across 5+ programs simultaneously, maximizing team efficiency to realize on-time deliveries from former multi-year delays and reduce.

Boulder, CO

• Project Manager and customer technical contact in the development of prototype products composed of glass, metals, crystals, and mechanical assemblies utilizing mills, grinders, polishers, saws, coating chambers and.
• Managed integrated product teams composed of 5+ Engineers, Technicians and Production Managers in conjunction with Customer Representatives and Sales Managers in the development and successful delivery of more than 50.
• Managed integrated product teams composed of 5+ Engineers, Technicians and Production Managers in conjunction with Customer Representatives and Sales Managers in the development and successful delivery of more than 50.

• Led Metrology Activities and established Error Budgets and schedules for the Thirty Meter Telescope Engineering and Manufacturing Phase 2 Demonstrator (TMT EMD2); utilized MATLAB-based Subaperture Stitching.
• Managed, developed and performed the Alignment, Integration and Test processes for the spaceborne Flip Assembly (a remote lightpath switch) and its components, including Boresight, Optical Path Length, Wavefront Error.
• Directed and Implemented processes incorporating Laser Trackers and Theodolites to successfully perform the Alignment, Integration and Test of the multi-element Calibration Lens Assembly – Flight Hardware, including.
• Program Manager for the development of grinding, shaping, polishing and Abrasive Water Jet (AWJ) processes and techniques for volume production of next generation spaceborne ultra-lightweight mirrors. Show less

• Developed alignment strategies, production fixtures, and test processes for the manufacture of Electro-Optical Switches. Provided product engineering, vendor development and technician training.
• Achieved greater than 50% alignment time reduction by integrating data analysis and parametric correlation for process optimization and product upgrades.
• Attained 50% increase in component reliability through instituting in-process controls and Preventive Maintenance (PM) schedules.

• Defined, implemented and maintained the Optical Wavelength Router (OWR) manufacturing tooling and process. Managed team of 10+ multi-disciplined engineers to the successful development and qualification of the OWR.
• Decreased subassembly scrap by 20% and increased production throughput by 25% via instituting… Show more Defined, implemented and maintained the Optical Wavelength Router (OWR) manufacturing tooling and process..
• Decreased subassembly scrap by 20% and increased production throughput by 25% via instituting process controls, yield / scrap analysis, failure mode analysis, in-process data collection and statistical analysis to.

• Led team of 5+ multi-disciplined engineers in the design of automated production tooling. Designed, built, calibrated, documented, qualified and supported precision tooling for the alignment, test and characterization.
• Designed and implemented the Clean Beam Spin Motor, Laser Diode Module (LDM) and Collimated LDM alignment tools resulting in throughput increases of 100%, 250% and 400%, respectively. Show less

Master Of Science (Ms), Optics

Hughes Aircraft Company Masters Fellowship

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Optics

BS in Optics awarded with High Distinction Phi Beta Kappa Tau Beta Pi