Senior Manufacturing Engineer in the photonics division of Gener8.Manage on-site cleanroom and wafer fabrication facilities. Design and implement manufacturing process improvements. Automate production with Labview and Python.

Lumeras designs novel laser systems using fiber optics and non linear media. My work has included the development of data acquisition and control software for serial, USB, I2C, and GPIB systems using C/C++, QT, and Labview. I have designed embedded circuits for beam measurement and conditioning, and have written the control software with a touchscreen user interface. I have seen this project through from the early R&D period through the present when we are creating our second laser product. We have lasers in research institutions across the world including Palo Alto, Geneva, and Bejing.

Improved production of lidar systems by using failure analysis to find and eliminate problem root causes.

Short term contract. Designed, tested, and optimized optical and electro mechanical systems for microscopes incorporated into DNA sequencing devices.

Performed extensive modeling of hard and soft x-ray synchrotron beamlines for commissioning, characterizing and optimizing existing beamlines, and evaluating new optical systems. Developed text message based status alert system in Java for the Advanced Light Source . Designed and calibrated cryogenic sample handling robots. Wrote calibration software to calculate inverse kinematics for sample arm motion.Developed KB mirror focusing technique for enhanced image edge sharpness, which is currently in use on the California High-Pressure Science Observatory.Devised and implemented experimental methods and tools to analyze the performance of CCD camera systems including characterization of point spread functions, electron gain, and noise power.Developed lock-in amplifier based feedback system for precise beam centroid tracking for implementation of Hartman-test type in-situ metrology of KB mirror optics.Performed stochastic ray trace modeling using Shadow. Extensive and in-depth knowledge of Shadow including fixing bugs and compiling versions with enhanced numbers of simulated rays. Investigated and documented techniques for modeling aspheric surfaces and thermal distortions of optics in Shadow. Precisely calibrated PIN diodes for comparison of real beamline flux performance to theoretically modeled.Developed analytical models for calculating beam flux through all optics including mirrors, filters and monochromators using dynamical diffraction theory and Fresnel equations