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Moorestown, NJ

• Part of a team of engineers, technicians, and associates in a specialty high quality vacuum deposition system production environment. Thin film coating specialization experience that includes the design, manufacturing.
• Overseeing research projects.
• Conducting experiments and maintain experimental logs and databases. Analyzing data and publishing findings.
• Testing, repairing and support of vacuum deposition system equipment and components.
• Proficient with optical thin film design software, The Essential Macleod, for development, process improvement and problem diagnosis of thin film optical coatings.
• Development of new optical coating materials for ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS) and Infrared (IR) wavelength ranges.

Doylestown, PA

• Working with the vapor deposition team to design and deposit custom anti-reflection (AR) coating for display or lens applications. Monitoring vacuum coating systems to increase production and reduce costs.
• Depositing of thin films utilizing electron-beam and thermal evaporation with ion beam assist.
• Internal control improvements, system process development and root cause analysis.
• Monitoring and improving process contamination controls.
• Diagnosing and repairing vacuum and deposition system problems.
• Meeting the optical and environmental requirements of military specifications.

Wilmington, DE

Collaborated with research scientists in a thin film/nanoparticle materials coating laboratory. Conducted process hazard reviews and wrote SOPs for lab equipment and processes. Ensured safe disposal of laboratory waste. Trained staff in preparation of samples and operation of deposition systems.

Wilmington, DE

Managed laboratory operations, helping design the experiments, depositing materials, characterizing samples created, and documenting experiments along with results. Operated and maintained laboratory equipment.

Wilmington, DE

Deposited thin film/nanoparticle materials. The materials ranged from magnetic/non-magnetic metals, oxides, nitrides, carbides, polymers to x-ray phosphors. Utilizing a wide range of deposition techniques including sputtering, electron-beam and thermal evaporation, ion-beam assisted deposition, electron cyclotron resonance microwave plasma-enhanced.

Wilmington, DE

Depositing of thin films utilizing PVD techniques including sputtering, electron-beam and thermal evaporation. Documentation of the experiments along with the results. Safe handling of compressed gases. Thickness of films by profilometer.Magnetic properties of films by magnetometer. Operation and maintenance of equipment used.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Activities and Societies: The Society of Physics Students (SPS)

Continuing Education, Statistics And Probability

Technical Certificate, Thin Film And Coating Technology

Technical Certificate

Understanding Vacuum Systems Material Science of Thin Films Vacuum System Trouble-Shooting Techniques