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Boulder, Co, Us

Broomfield, Colorado

Lead all aspects of mechanical design, calibration, and production of portable air pollution monitors (photometers) and calibration devices. Scale up production for multiple new products while managing technology transfer. Collaborate with sales, quality, and service to support the commercial success of company technologies and growth opportunities. Design processes to maximize company productivity and product performance. Recruit, train and mentor mechanical engineering, calibration, and production staff. Generate creative design solutions to technical, process, and supply chain issues. Manage engineering changes for 18 years and key contributor to ISO 9001 system. Implemented and maintain ERP system to increase organizational efficiency.

Boulder, Colorado

Developed over 20 products for sale to the air quality monitoring market, including ideation, proof of principle, prototype design and evaluation, and transfer to Production. Managed transition of successful research projects from the laboratory to Production for commercial launch. Contributed to and implemented design changes for improvement of existing product lines. Contributed to 2B Technologies winning the Tibbetts Award for commercializing innovative technologies through SBIR grants.

Boulder, Colorado

Contributed to the successful completion of 12 SBIR research grants, including ideation, basic research, prototype design and evaluation, field testing, 8 patent applications, 10 scientific publications, and presentations at national conferences. Designed and built a confocal flow cytometer for virus counting based on laser-induced fluorescence detection that was a commercialized by InDevR. Supported sales team through attending trade shows and providing technical support for customer inquiries.

Boulder, Colorado

Performed research for new chemical analyzers including an ambient CO2 monitor and a dissolved iodide analyzer. Designed and tested prototypes, published scientific papers, wrote 2 grant proposals. Created and managed technology transfer and product design management processes.

Boulder, Colorado

Performed research on high energy fuels. Published work on rocket fuel thermal decomposition at high temperatures for design of advanced rocket cooling systems. Developed apparatus to study vapor-liquid equilibria at high pressure to support industrial separations.

Longmont, Co

Performed R&D to support new gas products for the semiconductor industry. Designed FTIR method for measuring trace moisture in corrosive gases (ammonia, halogen and halogen acid gases). Developed method for analyzing metal particulate contamination in compressed CO at ppt levels. Published work.

Ph.D., Analytical And Environmental Chemistry

Thesis: "Generation and Optical Properties of Silver Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates,” Advisor: Professor Kathy Rowlen.

B.S., Chemistry