Senior Optical Systems Engineer
CurrentResponsible for the definition, promotion, design, evaluation, development, production, test, and troubleshooting of new optical systems for a broad range of applications.
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Nelson Wallace previously worked as Senior Optical Systems Engineer at Retired and Senior Optical Systems Engineer at Acumen Scientific. Nelson Wallace holds Ms, Optics from University Of Rochester.
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Optical Systems Engineering -System performance management activities. Developed performance requirements and allocated or translated them into designs, created specifications, cost estimates, evaluated vendors, managed fabrication, subassembly integration, and testing of state-of-the-art optical sensor systems. Performed key front-end trade-offs, prioritized optical system requirements, and developed solutions or technical alternatives in order to reduce program risks. Optimized system performance through requirements specification and performance analyses. Led optics integrated product teams, participated in hardware testing, troubleshooting optical system hardware problems, and final buy-off. Source selection experience.Optical Systems Performance Prediction - Modeling, Analysis, & Simulations -Developed and applied computer models to predict and optimize overall instrument performance, including signal-to-noise ratio, system and optics modulation transfer function, classification accuracy, ground resolved distance, radiometric accuracy, sub-pixel centroid tracker accuracy, and/or special instrument-specific performance measures, while minimizing the effects of degradations such as jitter, optics aberrations, detector noise and cross-talk, electronics noise, stray light, absorption and multiple scattering effects from long atmospheric paths or murky water, Fresnel diffraction, and from performance variations due to manufacturing, assembly, alignment tolerances, and environmental effects. Combined sensor radiometric performance models with star catalogs and astronomical algorithms to assess and optimize sensor star tracking effectiveness. Detailed Optical Engineering, Design, and Analysis -Proficient with current optical design, analysis, and stray light software; specifically, Code V, OSLO, ZEMAX, Accos V, HEXAGON, MACOS, Mini-APART, ASAP, SOAR, Guerap V, FRED, Light Tools and TracePro, LOTS & GLAD propagation codes, and TFCalc thin film code.Specialties: Expert technical and managerial skills relevant to advanced optical systems. Technical areas include engineering to develop optical systems concepts and system performance models, and to perform detailed optical design and analysis. Active in a broad range of aerospace, biomedical, and commercial projects. Most recent work on remote sensing systems requirements translation & allocation, sensor models and algorithms, optical design & analysis, and assembly & alignment.
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Responsible for the definition, promotion, design, evaluation, development, production, test, and troubleshooting of new optical systems for a broad range of applications.
Responsible for the definition, promotion, design, evaluation, development, production, test, and troubleshooting of new optical systems for a broad range of applications.
Optical engineering management, and detailed optical design and analysis for civil spacecraft optical payloads. Optics IPT Lead for Aerosol Polarimeter Sensor (APS). Produced detailed optical designs for all 200 optics. Organized & presented optics portion of highly successful APS PDR and CDR. For APS, translated polarimetric requirements into subassembly.
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Senior Staff Engineer and Section Head for optical design and analysis. Provided project management, system level analysis, optical engineering, and detailed optical design for numerous proposal and contract projects. Managed optical subprojects that included infrared and visible imagers, lasers, and spectroscopic instruments. Wrote the optics section of.
Responsible for a variety of Skunkworks airborne infrared and electro-optical systems and phenomenology.
Supervised optical systems engineers and performed top-level optical systems engineering. Developed experience in laser propagation, turbulence, and atmospheric attenuation/emission prediction codes (LOWTRAN, FASCODE, MODTRAN, etc.). Participated with customer in RFP creation, proposal evaluation, source selection, hardware buy-off, and satellite launch.
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Nelson Wallace is based in Ventura, California, United States while working with Retired.
Nelson Wallace has worked for Retired, Acumen Scientific, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems, Advanced Optical Engineering, and Trw Space & Defense.
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Nelson Wallace holds Ms, Optics from University Of Rochester.
Nelson Wallace is listed with skills including Optical Engineering, Optics, Sensors, Systems Engineering, Photonics, Zemax, Engineering Management, and Aerospace.
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