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Paignton, England, United Kingdom

Paignton, England, United Kingdom

Brixham, England, United Kingdom

• Focussing on demonstration of product reliability:
• Analysed, documented & reported technical issues using optical microscopy, microsection, FIBSEM and other techniques.
• Conducted wide range of process optimisation experiments to improve performance, reliability, and yield.
• Specified job requirements, interviewed, and hired candidates for the expansion of reliability, engineering, and supply chain teams.

Brixham Devon

• Developing the Brixham Technical Team
• Shaped product design, assembly processes, documentation, and selection of vendor base.
• Developed fibre-align and other processes.
• Reviewed, interviewed, and recommended for hiring more than 50% of (first 40) employees on UK site.
• Trained and mentored post-graduate hires and intern students. Definition of Reliability and Qualification Program
• Created end-end reliability and qualification plan, presented to Tier 1 customers.

Brixham Devon

• Establishing UK Facility
• Set requirements for initial manufacturing and development space, searched for suitable sites, identified UK facility, presented options and recommendations to the management team, negotiated first draft of the lease.
• Created development & manufacturing plan, equipment & space plan, CAPEX plan, worked with contractors to establish initial manufacturing area.
• Assessed, selected, and procured first round of capital equipment purchases.
• Created an initial controlled documentation system, performed detailed design work on first product, performed optical alignment of alpha samples.
• Conducted visits by investors and customers.

Paignton United Kingdom

• Providing technical and engineering support pre-Series A funding
• First and only full-time UK employee of EFFECT for 13 months.
• Assembled, tested, and qualified demonstrator platform samples with limited resources.
• Regularly presented results to management team and lead customer.
• Worked remotely with NL team to establish plan in support of first funding round.

Paignton Devon

• Responsible for detailed sourcing for UK and China-based photonic product development programs.
• Ensured compliance with specification, RoHS, and lifecycle status of in-feed components.
• Controlled engineering builds to consolidate, qualify and obtain customer approval for lifecycle and cost reduction related component changes.
• Controlled the material aspects of product costs

Paignton Devon

• Responsible for definition and resourcing of integrated Transmitter/Receiver module product verification; characterised, debugged, and optimised prototype products in the laboratory.
• Created product documentation and provided on-site support to China-based manufacturing introduction.
• Supported sample build and verification of new customer variants.
• Qualified and verified replacements for obsolete components to allow uninterrupted supply of existing products.

Paignton Devon

• Introduced new EDFA products into production in UK and China.
• Designed and introduced the smallest erbium-doped fibre amplifier gain block on the market.
• Led component failure investigations and qualification trials.
• Drove continuing yield improvements, topology simplification and test time reductions on production parts.

• Developed novel packaging methods for arrayed waveguide and other passive photonic products; performed reliability testing and introduction to manufacture.

• Developed optics, conducted reliability testing of submarine laser products.
• Investigated low-cost non-hermetic approaches to laser products.
• Modelled and prototyped novel packaging techniques for lithium niobate modulators.