Sr. Manager - Product / Process Development and Test / Reliability Unipixel Displays IncSince 12 / 2012 - The Woodlands TX, Lufkin TX, and KODAK Rochester - Sunrise Team.Process / Product Development for RollToRoll Thin Film metallized Flexible PET Plastic Display Touch Screens. Technology Transfer of RollToRoll Plastic PET Web Production to Eastman-Kodak. Electroless coatings / inline web converting & metallizations onto electronic printed web. Materials and Systems configuration development for improved Roll2Roll PET web conveyance.Metrology / Materials / Test Dept. Manager - Yield / Process / Product Development. Manager of materials testing lab for plastics & coatings: elemental, layer thicknesses, and nano-imaging of printed / converted webs. Materials Test, Microscopy, XRF (XRay), & 3D-Interferometry. Calibrations / Correlations / R&R Gage Studies. New methods/capabilities of tools applications. Quality Engineering: Product Reliability / Environmental Test. Process controls – SPC – specs.BIG DATA Analysis - Terabytes of data from Northfield Vision Inspection Systems and Electrical Test systems. Correlations, Statistical descriptions, trending, yields, for RollToRoll inline testers.

Principle Process and Product Engineer / Test Department ManagerAmerican Electro Optics 2/2009 – 12/2012 Forest Hill, TX 76119Principle Engineering – Mfg. Operations – Product Mgmt. - Plant, Process, Technology. Development of All process specs and designs related to imaging & detector products. Installation of optics manufacture & coatings department. Developed MOCVD / epi – MBE vacuum growth systems & processes for bi/tri-alkali photocathodes. Saved over $500K in manufacture costs developing internal manufacture. Recovered over $1Million in GEN3 night vision lenses. ITT / L-3 fiber optics recovery program saved over $250K. Neutron detectors (He-3/Bo-10) for Wireline / Reservoir imaging (Weatherford, NOVA Scientific, QSA-Global). Quality / Design / Ops Mgmt - Responsible for Products Design, Development, Performance, Yield. Increased electrical packaging Yields from 50% to 99% thru improved facilities, methods, and manufacture equipment. Establishment of manufacture methods, operations, staffing, etc. Manager of Electro Optical Systems Test - Preferred repair center for night vision systems. Polymeric potting / image detector optimizations/packaging. Installed optics and coatings mfg.

Director of Engineering – Plant / Facilities Manager International Silicon Solutions Dallas 2007–2009Generation of All Plant Process Designs, Manufacture and Quality Specifications, Process Controls, Statistical / Capability and Costs descriptions for electronic mfg plant. Yield and Lean Engineering / Process-Product Development to produce high quality, low-cost, semiconductor products to most of the wafer fabs / SEMI manufacturers in the US. SME for wafer fab ops. Extensive use of VISIO / MS Office products for process flow depictions & manufacture specs. Principal Engineer for All Engineering and Quality functions. Qualified plant to ISO 9001. Quality and Yield Improvements provided a 100% improvement in Billing Revenues of an $8M Wafer Fab. Improved lapped wafer production; Yields from 20% to 80% (improved process fixturing worth $150k per month). I eliminated backside staining defects by passivating wafers prior to polishing (Total Plant Yield went up 20%). Additional improvements in Yields by 20% (worth $100k per month). I Tripled the First Pass and Total Plant Yields. IT Dept. Manager – Responsible for database generations, intranet development, network / servers / firewall status, telecom system, backup management of critical company / mfg. data. Installation of SPC / Databases to optimize Plant / Process Yields and Equipment Performance.

Principal Process Engineer- CZT Imaging Detectors eV Products 2004-2007Wafering, CMP, Thin Films, Photolith, Etch, Packaging Saxonburg, PAPrincipal Manufacture Process Engineer for Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CdZnTe) Imaging Radiation Detectors. I developed all front-end foundry, device fabs, Packaging. Manufacturing process quality. Product and Process Designs. I introduced multilayer liftoff photolithography technology to develop of robust, hardened contact electrodes.Creation of Capable and Lean Process Designs for all detector products. Performed Standardization of >100 differing process flows into a simplified set of 10 processes ! Extensive use of Visio / MS Office products for generation of Process / Product flows. Medical Imaging / Diagnostic systems: Developed nuclear medical imaging detector product fab lines; GE Lunar Prodigy Bone Densitometer, Siemens Symphony 1.5T Maestro Short Bore MRI, and Gamma Medica’s FLEX Triumph tri-modality pre-clinical imaging gamma cameras. TSA Baggage and Ordnance Mfg. apps.

Principal R&D Engineer Kurt J. Lesker Co. Clairton, PA 1999 – 2004Principal Process & Design Engineer - Thin Films & UHV Vacuum TechnologiesThin Films development for every method of Thin Film Deposition offered via KJLC. Vacuum systems designs, chamber geometries & process controls development. QCM controls R&D. RF Induction Roll Coaters for OLEDs/Web Converting. MBE / epi / ALD.Telecom apps – multi-layer DWDM thin film coatings – Ion Beam assist Sputter deposition of Multi-Layer coatings for wavelength division multiplexing for telecom bandwidth products. Tantalum & Silica oxide coatings and materials for multiplex filters. Neutron Scattering - US Products Manager & Proposals Administrator for neutron scattering capital science packages and neutron optics for Mirrotron Labs – Budapest; SuperMirror Neutron Beam Guide systems, spectrometers, velocity selectors, choppers:Oak Ridge / SNS, Los Alamos, Argonne, Penn State CNCS, NIST-DC, Rutherford-Appleton / ISIS, KFKI Park / Budapest Research Reactor. SKF / Revolve.

Principle Design Engineer BALL Aerospace (BATC) Systems GroupHubble / STIS (UV) & ACS (IR) Programs Boulder, CO 1995 – 1999I developed device fab processes in support of custom high performance Imaging Detectors for NASA satellites - such as CsI & CsTe UV Imaging Detectors for the Hubble (STIS: Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph - STS Flight 82). IR to Gamma.NASA certified Polymer / Potting Engineer – Development of polyurethanes / epoxies for spacecraft apps. Power supply / electronics packaging & encapsulations, conformal coatings. Rheology / viscosity / cure schedules development of adhesives & polymers. FlipChip, underfill, wire bonding Packaging development. Thermo-Electric cooling. Composites testing / processing for spacecraft. Thermal vacuum processing and testing of polymers / composites / coatings for cure and cleanliness requirements.Photolithography, metals / dielectrics sputter depositions, RIE / Wet Chem processes / electro-polish. Germanium Imaging Detector packaging interfaces to exacting dimensions for the Athena Compton Telescope for Gamma Ray (GRB) Astrophysics. Vis / NIR CCD: Advanced Camera for Surveys (STS - 109). ESD / Vib / Shock testing.

Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer Si Wafer Foundry Air Products & ChemicalsSilicon Materials Divisions Dallas TX and Helmond / EindhovenProcess / Product Engineer for entire wafer foundries in Garland, TX and for the fabs near Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands. World class semi process cleans development (per Dr. T. Ohmi, & Dr. W. Schenk - Wacker Chemie AG). - Design of Cost of Quality system and Yields Analysis databases. - Motorola Quality QSR staff member. Six Sigma applications & leadership. Taguchi DOE. Engineering / Plant-Facilities / Environmental & Compliance Manager – Responsible for Technical, Quality, Facilities / Maintenance Department staffs. Plant, capital equipment, processes, and environmental compliance issues. Operational excellence / TQM / Preventive Maintenance. MTBF, Pareto of equipment downtime issues, and corrective actions for remedy and improvements.

Senior R&D Process Engineer 3rd GEN Night Vision Ni-Tec / Optic ElectronicGaAs Foundry and GEN-III Photocathode Development 1988 – 1991Process and device development for GEN-3 GaAs photocathode and optics departments for Image Intensifier company. MOCVD growth of GaAs/AlGaAs thin film epitaxial photocathodes. Responsible for Optical fab, III-V Processes, CVD / PVD / MO-CVD, and Design Engineering. Hydrogen diffusion furnace development to fabricate blackened Corning 7056 optics. Process Engineer for Initial Production Trials and RampUp. Optical Fab Engineer w/ OEC in Garland.

ITT Electro Optical Products Division / Alcatel / Gallium Arsenide Tech CenterTelecom - Fiber Optics GEN3 Night Vision Ramp Roanoke, VA 1984 – 1987Process Engineer - Initial Production Development for GEN3 GaAs epitaxy Night Vision (OMNIBUS 1) Manufacture Development of modern GEN3 night vision technology. Major contractor & Initial Gen-III supplier to VARO and Litton Industries. Multiple Quality Improvement awards for ITT Corporate for Yield and Quality Engineering successes. Wafering & Optics fabs.Stepped and Gradient Index fiber optics manufacture for the Telecom industry. Testing of CVD deposited fiber optics for mechanical strengths and attenuation losses for long haul fiber optics. Glass draw tower operations for specialty fiber optics also used in night vision (MCP) detectors.Associated coursework at Richland College in general telecommunications technology / fiber optics / transmission sources and detectors. Gallium arsenide based (GaAs/AlGaAs/InGaAs) detectors development for electro optical apps. Development work with optical coatings / filters.Interface with the ITT Gallium Arsenide Technology Center (GTC) – GaAs / AlGaAs epitaxial growth. GaAs Wafer Fab. CMP Polish Engineer. The highest efficiency and lowest defect production III-V Compound Semiconductor Photocathodes and Substrates achieved at the time.

Analytical Chemist – Manager of Organic Lab - Petro-Oil-Gas & Environmental CENTEC Analytical Corp. (EPA SuperFund certified Lab) Salem, VA 1978-1983Analytical and Engineering support for BP / Exxon / Citgo Petroleum Fuel Tank Farms, Montvale, VA. Groundwater wells maintenance and analytical monitoring for determination of leaks and integrity of all tank structures from a major petroleum products (gas) tank farm and associated pipelines. Gas Chromatography / Headspace analysis of petroleum fractions. Analytical Chemist / Organics Department Manager for EPA Superfund Lab. Analysis and reporting on various geological and water samples for government and contracted customers. GC/MS PCBs analysis of transformer oils for most of the power companies in the United States.Air and Water Permitting / EHS - Consultant for matters of environmental compliance and analytical support for area client companies. Groundwater and sampling. Strip Mining Land Recovery w/ EPA. Process Safety Reviews / EHS / Air and Water Permitting Engineering support. Chemical Inventories. Materials storage & Handling compatibilities. HAZMAT / HAZWOPER / MSDS. Remediation programs for Chlordane spills, Strip Mining impacts. PCBs.