Senior Research Engineer
General experience:• Led and co-led contract R&D projects ranging up to $2M in value with responsibility for budget, reporting, client liaison, and compliance.• Led cross-functional and geographically-dispersed teams on multi-disciplinary contract R&D projects.• Supported project and organizational leaders with technical reports, presentations, and technical work ranging from data analysis, prototype development, field and laboratory experiments.• Led and supported proposals and white papers to secure contract R&D work with new clients and follow-on work with existing clients.Highlights of recent technical accomplishments in leadership roles:• Demonstrated novel, high-fidelity micro-patterning of photostructurable glass ceramic using ultrafast laser and chemical etch for applications in replicated optical components.• Designed and demonstrated prototype long wave infrared (LWIR) vibration imaging system.• Designed and built lensless computational imaging test-beds; experimentally benchmarked computational image reconstruction algorithms. Highlights of recent technical accomplishments in independent roles:• Applied signal processing algorithms based on intrinsic time-scale decomposition and multidimensional correlation to imagery to enhance signal recovery.• Designed and demonstrated rugged, high-speed, multiband pyrometers for time-resolved, remote thermometry of simulated pyroclastic flow.Highlights of recent technical accomplishments in team-support roles:• Technology and supply chain due-diligence for large corporate acquisition of biomedical optical equipment company by multinational consumer and industrial optical equipment company.• Rapidly evaluated cost-effective, production-cycle compatible means to detect fungal infection in fresh produce for a niche market fresh-fruit producer.• Demonstrated in vitro and in vivo glucose monitoring based on tunable diode laser spectroscopy (TDLAS) using tunable mid-wave infrared quantum cascade laser.
