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San Diego, CA, US

San Diego, California, United States

Lead integrated team developing products, identifying applications and markets, and working with customers in emerging quantum technology and laser-based sensor applications, both commercial and defense.

San Diego, California, United States

Lead multidisciplinary engineering team delivering advanced, highly ruggedized electro-optical, laser, and sensor systems. Develop advanced prototypes from concept to delivery, qualification, field testing, and end-customer application support. Lead efforts developing products supporting emerging quantum technology applications.Secured advanced.

Boulder, CO And Madison, WI

• Responsible for growing company revenue both through development contracts and new commercial products
• Define new products, carefully matched to emerging market requirements
• Segment markets, create product and technology roadmaps, and position the company and product lines appropriately within those markets
• Match current capabilities to new requirements and grow new company capabilities to enable new products
• Guide product development from inception to production scaling

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Design, develop, and deliver advanced, integrated, highly-ruggedized electronic control and photonic systems
• Products include: optical amplifiers and transceivers for UAV-borne and space-based optical communication systems, advanced sensing systems (including EDFAs and pulsed laser systems for LIDAR applications), advanced.
• Identify new markets and work with new customers to identify their requirements and develop new products to meet their requirements

Madison, WI

• Identify new markets and applications for broad portfolio of electro-optical products
• Design, develop, and manufacture integrated, high-reliability laser systems for power-over-fiber and free-space orbital communications

Madison, WI

• Identify new markets and applications for new laser and electro-optical technologies
• Interpret customer requirements and translate into realizable solutions
• Lead design and development of new products capable of operating over wide operating temperatures and under highly challenging conditions
• Guide products from concept through low-rate initial production
• Support customers from early development through field applications

Santa Clara, CA And Madison, WI

• Responsible for building new and supporting existing customer relationships, primarily among tier-one OEM customers in the semiconductor capital equipment and industrial laser systems sector
• Provide advice and guidance directly to the marketing and engineering teams with first-hand knowledge of customer requirements and opening up new market segments

Santa Clara, CA And Madison, WI

• Led engineering team developing new photonics instrumentation products. Responsible for product definition, engineering development, program management, and initial marketing tasks. Led small team that delivered four.
• Managed research and development teams
• Principal investigator for an ultra-stable, locked, external-cavity diode laser prototype delivered to NASA
• Authored and co-authored several successfully funded proposals

Camarillo, CA And Madison, WI

• Responsible for line of microwave amplifiers, including landing new customers, negotiating specifications with existing customers, developing and validating new product roadmap, creating cost models, and developing.
• Managed consolidation of specifications and test methodologies for a complex line of telecommunications RF amplifiers.
• Developed tools and managed team required to scale volume manufacturing.
• Responsible for product definition, specification creation, market development planning, and sampling plan for an optical receiver for long-haul networks, including Telcordia qualification program and full long-haul.
• Created high-speed package and optical coupling designs for 12.5-gigabit/sec receiver and seeded company-wide development of novel fiber coupling methodologies
• Successfully led adoption of serial 850 nm 10-gigabit optical link in two standards committees (IEEE Ethernet and OIF)

Madison, WI

• Led DARPA-funded contract delivering miniature, low power consumption, 10-gigabit/second fiber-optic transceiver, including link design, performance testing, optical pigtailing and alignment, electrical/RF packaging.
• Designed, built, and transitioned to production a semi-automatic laser welding robot capable of submicron-level fiber alignment and hermetic package sealing.
• Designed unique gigabit surface-mount optoelectronic package with differential interface and fiber coupling compatible with both VCSEL and PIN diodes.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Designed and built external-cavity diode lasers, including optical cavity electronics
• Designed and optimized stabilization system for a single-mode Ti:Sapphire laser
• Responsible for development of experimental methods and building all apparatus including high-vacuum systems, optomechanics, and electronics
• Created world’s first magneto-optical trap for potassium (natural and radioactive isotopes)

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Assistant teaching assistant for core physics curriculum including classroom and laboratory sections; sophomore-level mechanics and electromagnetics.

Pasadena, CA

• Resulted in publication in peer-reviewed journal
• Developed computer simulation of the interplanetary medium to study feasibility of orbiting low-frequency radio telescope array
• Assessed the feasibility of a Lagrange orbit, multi-satellite optical interferometer

Pasadena, California, United States

Lead upper-level modern physics laboratory, guiding undergraduates on experimental techique, data-collection, and underlying physical phenomena behind experiments.

Pasadena, California, United States

Researched, design, and fabricated a 337 nm (pulsed ultraviolet) nitrogen gas laser including high-voltage electronics and interface electronics. Used to produce ionization tracks to calibrate a high-pressure xenon time-projection chamber to perform sensitive tests of the Standard Model of particle interactions (specifically, double beta decay).

Ph.D., Atomic/Molecular Physics

• Advisor: Prof. Thad G. Walker • Goal: measure the beta-asymmetry parameter in the decay of ³⁸K, performing a sensitive test of weak.

B.S., Physics, With Honor

Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships, American Physical Society• Designed and built a nitrogen.

Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Extended curriculum included major in electrical engineering. AC, DC, analog, digital, and RF electronics. Extensive classroom/theory and.