Oversee portfolio of customer-funded and internally-funded research and development for $300M sector of business. Developed rigorous data around funding, stage gates, risks, and accomplishments. Collaborated with business development and finance to include business cases for investments including revenue and return on investment. Launched cultural shift from "technology push" only to "technology push - market pull - margin expansion" linking to improve profitability and market uptake of our new product introductions. Expanded new-product-introduction contribution to revenue growth from 24% to 31% on relatively flat R&D investment by reducing R&D inefficiencies and risk while increasing return.Lead Mergers and Acquisitions for D&A in collaboration with Corporate Development including finding opportunities and starting due diligence for dozens of targets per year with a focus on intellectual property, technology product differentiation, and technology roadmaps. Represented D&A business, especially products and technology to potential acquirers through the generation and presentation of slides and data.Identified opportunity and wrote the initial documents for Excelitas's first successful US Department of Defense proposal. Participated in team development of winning proposal. Wrote whitepaper document for Excelitas's second successful US DoD proposal and participated in team development of winning proposal. Technical leader for Excelitas' first 9 figure proposal to US DoD.Started Artificial Intelligence Working Group and helped group reach 50% CRAD/50% IRAD investment within two years along with two patents. Developed 11 technology tracks and accelerated progress through quarterly reviews including roadmap risks, opportunities, and actions.

• Developed strategy and plan to execute a portfolio of IRADs for airborne platforms.• Oversaw successful flight data collect (transfer alignment and infrared search and track), innovative athermalized lens design, and highly capable electronics board.• Nominated for 2019 L3 President's Award for bringing IRADs in on-schedule and on-budget.• Developed COE "Success Story" briefing materials and showed path for COE to address many of company's high likelihood, high consequence risks.• Developed plan to execute customer discovery and provide quantitative return-on-investment values for COE.

• Chief Engineer for internal research and development of distributed aperture MWIR technologies. Won 2018 L3 President's award for this work.• Developed trades and analyzed architecture for AHEL, laser weapon on AC130. Proposed architecture briefed by government at directed energy professional society (DEPS) meeting.• Lead system engineer for Space Surveillance Telescope relocation program through DSRR. • Developed architecture and led team in design of low-cost laser directed energy system for unmanned aerial vehicle defense. Won L-3 Employee Achievement Award for this work.• Led technical team in successful proposal for a proof-of-design, environmentally tested, and deployed short-wave infrared camera and rangefinder for naval platform.• Wrote directed energy and radiometric estimation tool and validated against standard propagation tools (HELEEOS, LEEDR, HELCOMES).• Engineering representative to Pentagon and Congress for DE2DC 2016.• Designed subsystems and developed system safety for Laser Weapon System Demonstrator.• Developed and implemented key systems engineering and estimating processes and provided training materials for systems engineering group.

• Played key role in winning >$10 M in research contracts from 2008 to 2015.• Primary performer on government and commercial trade-space or white-paper studies on wide variety of subjects including laser grating manufacturing processes, airborne mapping systems, tank turret, and unmanned underwater vehicle vision systems.• Technical lead supporting government customer on Solid State Laser Technology Maturation. Built first-order laser and receiver model used for evaluating trade space.• Technical lead on VIS/SWIR and LWIR hyperspectral imaging system from kickoff through critical design review.• Invented and oversaw implementation and field testing of a low-cost, passive, low Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature (NEDT), stand-off millimeter wave imaging system. • Generated quantitative theoretical and experimental studies on the optics, aerodynamics, and performance of the millimeter wave imaging system.• Proposal, technical, and programmatic lead for energy-saving roof system for containerized living units in Djibouti through Preliminary Design Review. Analysis using first-principles thermal modeling and cost-benefit analysis.• Authored hundreds of reports for customers, three papers/presentations presented at conferences, and twelve preliminary, critical, or final design reviews.

• Technical lead for automated intensifier measuring system (AIMS) which won the 2010 Joint Service Value Engineering Achievement Award.• Wrote LabVIEW/Matlab software to control AIMS for measurements on image intensifier tubes and low-light digital sensors. Worked closely with programmers to implement a C-based automated control for image intensifier tube characterization.• Invented modulation transfer function (MTF) and gain calibration techniques and directly contributed to all aspects of AIMS development: optics, hardware, firmware, and software. The AIMS systems are used by the Army’s Night Vision Laboratory and U.S. Navy Air Systems Command as the government standard for image tubes and low-light digital sensors.• Interacted with customer base to modify AIMS to meet their requirements and to troubleshoot equipment.• Managed networked harbor security project through critical design review before successfully transitioning project to new principal investigator.• Successfully managed and led field demonstrations of real-time stabilized panoramic imagery combined with a situational awareness sensor suite on two different platforms.

• Built optical hardware, model and analysis routines for experimental measurement of fast sub-micrometer mirror displacements on X-ray irradiated telescope using custom-built Shack-Hartmann sensor.• Managed electromagnetic armor software simulation effort while also contributing to the physics code.• Led submission of successful grant proposal for the analysis and experimental validation of an laser-hardened flight termination system for missiles.• Managed software development and contributed knowledge of basic physics effects to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) High Altitude Optical Relay Mirror simulator.• Analyzed propagation of communications laser through atmosphere for AFRL air-to-satellite optical communication project. • Authored four white papers on optics/communications topics for customers, three papers/presentations presented at conferences, and twenty reports delivered to customers.

• Implemented standardized testing procedures resulting in a dramatic increase in the status, credibility and reliability of the engineering laboratory.• Led team fixing, then optimizing XFP/12km transmitter. • Designed, built and automated semiconductor laser test and fiber optic alignment/characterization apparatus. Used this system to test next generation semiconductor lasers for 12km transponder. • Designed and built system for testing die-level laser driver chips. • Designed and built prototype system for testing 10Gbps transmitter module in production line. • Led team which fixed laser submount electrical and temperature performance on 2km transponder. • Worked on numerous projects exploring new ideas or solving manufacturing issues.• Led five company-wide peer reviews and submitted four invention disclosures.

• Taught graduate, senior, and junior level physics classes cross-culturally. • Designed and built Labview-controlled research equipment. • Constructed every aspect of the first computer network in the Department of Physics.• Raised over $100,000 for humanitarian aid through a series of fundraising lectures and presentations.

• Conducted basic research and device fabrication with conducting polymers, C60, C70 and porous silicon. • Characterized polymeric systems using laser-excited photoluminescence spectroscopy and photoluminescence magnetic resonance techniques. • Pioneered novel techniques for measuring the lifetime of resonance species and discovered delayed fluorescence in -conjugated polymers. • Designed, updated and refined hardware and software to improve and extend the scope of operation of the magnetic resonance optical spectrometer. • Authored twenty-five papers including two Physical Review Letters.

• Rewrote a FORTRAN electromagnetic modeling program in parallel computer. • Interfaced PATRAN to export 3-D shapes for EM analysis. • Modeled and analyzed the damaged antenna on the Galileo space probe at Jupiter. • Authored a chapter of “Progress in Electromagnetics Research (1993).”