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Invent new ways to push the performance boundaries of active noise reduction (ANR) systems. Take ideas from whiteboard to prototype to high-volume production for Bose industry leading noise cancelling headphones. Generate new user experience concepts, build them, try them in the real world. Drive the best ideas into products.

Develop novel capabilities for next generation products in the Noise Reduction Technology Group.

Direct a team of Ph.D. materials scientists through the entire technology development lifecycle in a fast-paced start-up environment. Took the revolutionary Silicon Power Cell from concept to high volume production, focused on the core fuel cell electrode process – the secret sauce that drives fuel cell power and lifetime. • Initially instituted organizational practices in early-stage start-up to electronically track all experiments and results, provided operational discipline to consistently execute development plans, standardized device processing and testing to enable team to focus on inventing new materials• Led team through development of new materials and processes to optimize electrode coating performance against competing objectives. Matured technology from model substrates to single-cell test structures to fuel cell arrays, to final product configuration. Worked closely with pilot MEMS fab team to understand interactions between electrodes and MEMS support structure, and to modify design of both process and structure to achieve performance goals. • Scaled up small R&D team with manual process to two-shifts running on automated processing equipment. Managed both tech development of new materials and processes and ops aspects of pilot line, driving pace of experimental starts, builds, testing. Hired, managed, and mentored tech staff, line manager, and pilot line operators• Created SQL database to track all materials, experiments, processes, builds, in-process and final test data. Managed development of associated tools to enable arbitrary definition of processes, process parameters. Database spans hundreds of tables, thousands of experiments, 3TB of data and counting.• Developed automated analytical tools to provide real-time reporting across the company, from Executive Team summaries to individual lot statistics for engineers. Created company tech intranet to provide easy access to knowledge base at all levels, from any workstation.

Led teams on multiple programs in the field of dynamics and control, multi-intelligence data fusion.• Developed new business area in distributed data fusion. Won highly competitive contract from Office of Naval Research for prototype deployment to active naval station lab.• Led software refactoring effort for division’s primary product ($10M annual sales in 2005) to more easily support additional customer requirements and operation domains • Developed new analysis techniques to assess the performance of the Airborne Laser (ABL) beam alignment control system. Led investigation into optical extraction efficiency under expected misalignment conditions. Created component performance models for the Missile Defense Agency to represent the as-built ABL performance within the Ballistic Missile Defense System.• Line management for technical staff: conducted performance evaluations, set employee goals; tracked development progress; hired and mentor new staff.

Developed control system for next generation Excimer laser (XLA-100, released 31 Jan 2003) used in 90% of world’s semiconductor manufacturing• Managed algorithm development for all aspects of laser control system; high-bandwidth Energy, Timing and Wavelength control; low-bandwidth Gas Management control. Three direct reports during program.• Developed control system, from preliminary characterization and modeling of benchtop proof-of-concept performance through requirements analysis, system design, prototype implementation, pilot integration and validation. • Patented methods for optimal sub-nanosecond timing and synchronization of laser light pulses and for non-invasive estimation and regulation of excimer gas mixture• Met very aggressive and highly compressed product development schedule characteristic of semiconductor manufacturing industryDeveloped demonstration base-isolation control system for a lithography tool maker with sub-micron vibration control performance• Designed and implemented multi-stage actuated, 6 degree-of-freedom control system for passive isolation and active vibration control of a wafer stage• Co-developed DSP based, embedded real-time control system with direct serial interface to MATLAB for rapid prototyping, data collection, and analysis• Patented control algorithm techniques developed during program