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San Diego, Ca

• Aggressively growing a start-up contract R&D organization focused on applying frontier scientific and deep tech concepts to the creation of leap-ahead mission capabilities.

San Diego, Ca

• Directed $5M per year execution of multiple customer-funded and internal R&D programs in advanced communications, signals intelligence, and other emerging areas.• Conducted R&D activities that included technology scouting and incubation of early-stage advanced concepts, with a focus on seeding non-organic business growth through the identification of disruptive innovations.• Led proposal teams in multiple successful priority-win captures and other business development activities including fostering of customer relationships and formation of strategic partnerships.

San Diego, Ca

• Supervised a matrixed staff of engineers; supported program staffing in a $1.1B organization, mentoring, career development, training, knowledge retention, performance reviews, recruitment, and hiring.

Baltimore, Md

• Directly reporting to the business unit VP, supervised special initiatives and rapid-response actions supporting a $200M R&D organization including business strategy, technology marketing, executive memoranda, program management reviews, forecasting, and proposal management.• Technology portfolio included radar, electronic warfare, electro-optics, communications, signals intelligence, self-protect, undersea systems, and integrated systems-of-systems.

San Diego, Ca

• Involved in a variety of projects across multiple acquisitions phases including programs of record, pursuits, captures, proposals, and internal/contracted research and development.• Evaluated product offerings across multiple functional and logical domains for the architecture of an airborne system-of-systems mission solution.• Proposed a communications product architecture for a future autonomous aerial platform.• Developed a rapid prototyping process for communications waveform development, which allows for expeditious progress from block-level simulations to instantiation on an FPGA-driven RF transceiver.• Developed operating procedures and performed trade studies for production-floor special test equipment and verification systems.• Contributed subject matter expertise to proposal teams.• Managed project scope, schedule, budget, performance, risks, and earned value.• Contributed to F-35 communications/navigation/identification (CNI) system production, MQ-4C Triton communications, MQ-25 Stingray early-concept requirements, and Future Vertical Lift analysis of alternatives.

San Diego, Ca

• Designed and tested silicon photonic integrated circuits.• Integrated chip-scale photonic sub-systems with a data-center prototype for application-specific testing.• Made extensive use of test equipment for fiber-optic and high-speed 10-Gbps communications and for semiconductor device characterization.• Developed contrast microscopy technique using localized surface-plasmon resonant nanostructures.• Supervised and trained graduate and undergraduate students.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Performed experimental characterization of silicon photonic devices.• Created an automated process for layout verification of a CMOS silicon photonics process.

Rochester, New York

• Performed theoretical analysis and device modeling of III-V quantum dot solar cells.• Performed materials characterization of quantum dots and carbon nanotubes.

Hopewell Junction, New York

• Supported production CMOS fabrication line through process control and verification.• Qualified new fabrication tools and process capabilities.

Albany, New York

• Demonstrated a porous-silicon optical sensor and developed corresponding testing apparatus.

Rochester, New York

• Assisted in the maintenance of a 10,000 sq. ft. class-1000/class-10 cleanroom.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering / Applied Physics (Photonic Integrated Circuits And Nanoscale Optics)

M.S., Materials Science (Semiconductor Physics)

B.S., Microelectronic Engineering (Minors In Physics And Electrical Engineering)