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Highly experienced in conceiving, creating, and deploying airborne sensors in the electro optical domain. With deep experience in the technology, government programs, and technical management, projects I've led have brought in tens of millions in revenue and more importantly, have personally solved difficult government problems.Technical experience includes:- Combining control, sensing, and algorithms to harness the right photons to the desired information, with applications to UAV navigation, bathymetry, vehicle tracking, and terrain mapping- Designing, building, and operating a cutting edge long range bathymetric lidar, from clean sheet to deployed success- Designing the concept behind a first of its kind mapping lidar from space- Instituting a firm mathematical foundation for the handling of imagery, including coordinate transforms and camera calibration- Real time bundle adjustment of gigabytes per second of imagery into stable imagery used as a substrate for AI algorithms with applications to target detection, navigation, tracking, and others- Engineering systems to optimize performance with constraints on size, weight, power, schedule, and cost- Conceiving and analyzing optical systems to meet performance specifications, including focal planes and lens specification- Integrating and testing of sensors onto aircraft, including many hours of hands on work in hangars and on aircraft to get it doneManagement experience includes:- Leading a large engineering team in a matrixed environment to maximize personnel performance and growth- Building an engineering team in a small company to engineer a space lidar- Conceiving strategies for a small company to win a market through innovation, resulting in very low SWaP WAMI sensors- Influencing the company culture to achieve the best customer results possible- Leading teams to move computer vision research into real time code- Clarifying technical concepts to minimize effort for the maximum result through mentorship and empathy- Maintaining great customer relationships over long time periods, resulting in years of revenue- Leading teams in field tests to motivate the best results in high stress situations, focusing on what's needed to maximize the programmatic objective

Listed skills include Image Processing, Algorithms, Computer Vision, Sensors, and 28 others.