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Clearwater, Florida, United States

Produce and support SayWeather- the automated weather advisory reporting system for airports.

Clearwater, Fl

Founding manager and principal engineer of startup company focused on developing Internet-connected sensors and systems (IoT), and microfabricated (MEMS) sensor solutions. My company's vision is to deliver products to users that increase awareness of their physical surroundings, simplify their life, and improve personal safety. At Connectsix I design, produce, support and market SayWeather, the affordable AWOS alternative weather reporting system for smaller public and private airports. My company is working on revolutionizing the cost of environmental sensors including ceilometers (cloud Lidar) and marine sensor systems. We provide consulting/design services for embedded systems, optoelectronic, and MEMS sensors.

St. Petersburg, Fl

MEMS program manager. Developing visible and thermal infrared optical and physical sensors and communication devices utilizing MEMS technology. Interfaced with customers, technical and support staff to generate and develop concepts, winning proposals, and system-level designs. Designed, implemented and directed MEMS, electrical, optical, mechanical and software designs. Led small teams to develop and demonstrate new sensing capabilities. Developed and tracked budgets and technical work.

Largo, Fl

Developed MEMS and optical solutions for sensor and optical communications applications, including free-space optical communications, evanescently-coupled grating sensors. Component-level and system-level design and implementation. MEMS layout and modeling. Electrical, thermal and optical test. Perform all process steps from design to lithography, etch, deposition, characterization, packaging.Mentor and work with USF EE M.S. and Ph.D. students on joint USF/SRI projects.

Largo, Fl

Worked within a small team to establish new MEMS clean room. Included tool selection, installation and qualification. Leader in establishing new end-to-end MEMS processes and recipes on complete line of fabricaiton equipment. Processes included wet etch, lithography, etch and deposition characterization using optical tools, stylus profilers, and SEMs. Developed and documented processes, led team of engineers on projects, and supervised junior engineers and graduate students. Created new concepts to solve problems, and wrote winning proposals to generate funding. Doumented results internally, in reports, presentations, and in journals and conference proceedings.Main focus was on optical MEMS applications for sensing and communications; also worked on physical sensor design and test.

St. Petersburg, Fl

Development and field support of marine instrumentation for the USF College of Marine Science. Developed high-speed underwater line-scan camera for plankton imaging. Underwater radiometer. Supported other projects through PCB design, testing, wiring, debug, etc. Supported research cruises aboard FIO ships. Write proposals and papers. Work with faculty, staff, students to design, implement and teach how to operate marine instruments.

Gainesvile, Fl

Developed and tested lithium niobate electro-optic modulators utilizing domain-inverted regions. Developed and performed fabrication procedures for wafers and chips, set up optical equipment and tested devices.

Ph.D., Electrical And Computer Engineering

B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, With Distinction