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Minneapolis, MN, US

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Define program documentation and specification based on customer requirements and flowdowns in order to provide detailed information for the manufacturing of space-grade solar panels.- Own aspects of new product designs for solar cells and laser power converters. Maintain existing solar cell product metadata and coordinate with multiple departments to.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Lead process development of novel or unique solar cell architectures, laser power converters, and other PV-related research projects for a variety of customers and R&D efforts.- Maintained product and specification databases for reliable solar cell performance modeling and analysis.

- Photovoltaic fabrication specialist located on site at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC with the Optoelectronics & Radiation Effects Branch.- Integral team member tasked with leading the processing effort to apply micro-transfer printing technologies to III-V photovoltaics.- Developed extensive fabrication procedures to enable.

- Located on site at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC working with the photovoltaic and infrared detector teams in the Optoelectronics & Radiation Effects Branch.- Developed, managed, and contributed to numerous programs involving applications of III-V semiconductor materials for photovoltaics and infrared detectors on GaAs, InP and GaSb.

Rochester, NY

- Developed and led a master's thesis involving fabrication and analysis of novel, next-generation GaAs solar cell architectures including quantum dots.- Worked with MicroLink Devices and their epitaxial lift-off process to demonstrate a novel thin solar cell structure with sub-bandgap photon absorption enhancement from quantum dots.

Rochester, NY

- Part of the Nano-Photovoltaic research group with a focus on solar cell research.- Participated in device fabrication and processing in the Semiconductor & Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory at RIT.- Designed and constructed LabVIEW software used by all team members to perform I-V measurements and characterization on a large area two-zone close matched.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

- Completed a summer internship as part of the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI) program Lewis' Educational and Research Collaborative Internship Project (LERCIP).- Used Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) to characterize different materials for use in a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion system.

Master Of Science (Ms), Materials Science

Activities and Societies: RIT Honors Program, WITR Radio (Production Lead)Thesis title: Quantum Dot Enhanced Epitaxial Lift-off Solar.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics

Activities and Societies: RIT Honors Program, Society of Physics Students, WITR RadioReceived a BS in Physics with a minor in.