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Devens MA USA

Cambridge MA

Leading a small group of engineers working closely with research scientists, graduate students and professors to develop and deploy bleeding edge, world class, atmospheric chemistry instruments and flight platforms to fly them on.

Greater Boston Area

NASDAQ SPAC ~ July 2021 @ ~$1.7B valuationI was a company Co-founder and the Chief Engineer. In that capacity I worked intimately with the CTO to understand the science requirements while leading and individually contributing to a small group of engineers. Together we developed, from napkin to serial production, our Initial product; a mm-Wave (K-band).

Billerica MA

Acquired by SAIC ~ Aug 2010 for ~$240MI was the first full time hire after the co-founders in the role of Chief Engineer. Helped build the technical team and then both individually contributed to and lead that team in designing and developing, from napkin to serial production, a portfolio of Dual-Energy X-ray, 3D, Computer Tomographic imaging systems.All.

Burlington MA

Terason was a start-up venture during this time-frame developing FDA 510(k) approved miniaturized form factor, high performance Ultra Sound Imaging Systems.

Woburn Ma

Vivid developed, manufactured and sold Multi-view X-ray Imaging Systems for performing automated detection of explosives in airport luggage. Vivid was sold to Perkin Elmer in 1999.

Rochester, New York Area

In 1992 the Lab was awarded a grant by the US DoE to design and build the then world's largest Pulsed Laser System for performing Nuclear Fusion Reaction Experiments. I played a key role in bringing on line the Pulse Generation Room. The PGR is where the beam is birthed and its temporal shape is established.

Rochester, New York Area

Hampshire was a start-up firm developing a small footprint X-ray lithography system for semiconductor fabrication. Its novel approach to the challenge was the generation of X-rays via a table-top Hi-energy Pulsed Laser System creating a plasma off a disposable metal target.

Greater Boston Area

Teradyne develops and manufactures world class automated semiconductor component and printed circuit board assembly test equipment. My role was as an analog instrumentation design engineering developing an array of plug-in instruments.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering