Robert Barry Email & Phone Number

Also VP - Engineering for sister company Axcel PhotonicsPrivately held companies that grow and manufacture IR laser diodes and fiber optic components.Responsible for engineering, manufacturing and production operations.Product Development and Management for Medical Laser componentsLeadership in development of Medical laser products internallyManagement of.

Southborough, MA, US

• Protonex is a private start-up company of just under 100 people
• Engineering responsibility for all product commercialization programs and establishment of product design and commercialization process
• Functional responsibility for systems, test and ME engineering resources
• Overall responsibility for all PEM/Reformed Methanol Development programs and contracts
• Temporary VP- Operations responsibility in transition to implement Visual ERP
• Technologies included: Electro-chemical PEM fuel cells, steam methanol reformation, and commercial and Military product design for CE & Mil Std 810f standards

Uxbridge, Middlesex, Middlesex, GB

• Presstek was a 250 person public company before acquisition of ABDick growing to 800 people.
• Engineering responsibility for all optical, hardware, software and system products
• Managed up to 60 engineering resources of all disciplines
• Program management for development and launch of all commercial products & systems
• Scale-up responsibility for new printing plate (consumable) products
• Various other roles as Director - Off-press products and VP – Service & Customer Support

• Polaroid Graphics Imaging (Latran) is a private held start-up formed from a Polaroid Graphics Imaging spin-out
• Responsible for engineering for all hardware, software and system products
• Developed and launched new digital halftone proofing products
• Supervise mechanical, electrical, optical and software engineering
• Established R&D organization for a $30M small business
• Technologies include: high power fiber laser imaging, hi-res external drum helical imaging, automatic paper and film handling, PCI image data processing hardware, machine control electronics, embedded microprocessor.

Rochester, New York, US

• Director- R&D, 14” Optical Storage Products
• Managed overall R&D investment of $12M, developed 5 year technology plan, won a $11M multi-year NIST project for enabling technology development
• Launched new 14" optical disk formats, disk drives, robotic libraries and software products
• Led multi-functional commercialization team, supervised directly 30 engineers (optical, electrical, mechanical, software and systems)
• Directed research and advanced development activities to support product line
• Technologies include: Digital servos for a new focus and tracking optical flexure head, vibration control to sub-micron level, custom hardware and software data encoding and decoding, robotics, and disk mastering.