• Subject Matter Expert curriculum developer in the Project Management area. Recent developments: Project Risk Management (Proj595), Project Management (Mgmt404), Management of Technology Resources - IT Strategy (MGMT408), Project Quality Management (Mgmt415)• Member of the Curriculum and Assessment Team for the Project Management Programs.• Former Chair for the Business Department at the Keller Graduate School of Management and DeVry College of Business & Management. Provided administrative oversight by effectively allocating and managing resources, work scope, scheduling.• Monitored faculty performance supporting continuous improvement and professional development via onsite and online class observations, and offering faculty blended education training, scholarly activities, and other services.• Facilitated the delivery of quality instructional programs, defining program educational objectives, designing curriculum, and scheduling of courses to optimize average class sizes and faculty course loads • Advise and instruct graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of Project Management, Business, and Engineering.

• Strategic Consultant in the areas of prototyping, business plan & sales strategy development. • Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting privacy policies and structuring commercial transactions.

Administrative duties include:• Responsibility for administrative oversight Keller Graduate School of Management and DeVry College of Business, resource allocation and management including Professors' workload planning and scheduling • Delivery of instructional programs, curriculum design and program educational objectives, • Monitoring of faculty scholarly activities and services, advancement and continuous improvement, • Facilitator for the academic and professional programs of the department in both the day and Evening, Weekend and Graduate Programs.• Mentor and facilitator for the faculty and staff within the department as they carry out their mission. • Liaison with upper administration and the university community (e.g., student body, full time Faculty and Visiting Professor).Teaching duties include:• Lecturer of Business and Engineering courses at the Graduate and Undergraduate level respectively.• Business courses taught include in the include: Statistics, Product Development, Portfolio Management, Project Management and other Management related courses.• Engineering courses taught include: Product Development, Micro-controllers, Engineering Economics, Assembler, C, VHDL, LabView, MATLAB.

• Managed technical aspects and the smooth operation of the center and its goals.• Supervised and reported progress of various projects of relevance to NASA's mission.• Coordinated and budgeted experiments and events.• Designed and performed research experiments. • Wrote publications and reports of various research projects.• Operation and maintenance of state of the art scientific optical equipment such as Lasers, Temporal Imaging cameras (e.g., Streak, time gate, etc), Spectrometers and knowledge of different computer software and programming.• Trained and supervised Post Docs, Graduates, and/or Undergraduate students.• Supported scientific and administrative operations of other centers, including NASA-COSI, NOAA CReST and NOAA ISET.• Coordinated student recruitment, outreach initiative, summer and year round programs.• Principal author and co-author of several publications in the field of applied optics.• Participant in several scientific conferences (Oral and Poster presentations).

• Worked towards the establishment of CUNY as one of the foremost photonics research institutions by attracting top-quality researchers to complement and strengthen our existing capabilities.• Developed a top-notch graduate-level multidisciplinary photonics education program, in cooperation with appropriate science and engineering departments, providing students with academic and industrial research opportunities.• Supported economic development through technology transfer, research agreements, start-ups, spin-offs and incubator and accelerator facilities in support of the NYSTAR CAT. • Managed and worked with IUSL scientist and companies to plan projects, write proposal and reports.

• Accountable for Automatic Optical Inspection/Measurements Team Leader: in charge of selection of optical equipment for manufacturing line.• Responsible for the training of peer engineers and operators of such equipments.• Metrology: Measurements and Topography analysis of Thin Film products.• Selection and programming of suitable tool parameters for optimal defect detection and in line critical dimensional (cd) measurements.• Definition of Engineering Changes for optimization of optical equipments.• Analytical and Modeling studies related to Thin Film Technology.• Contributed to the qualification of new Thin Film Micro-electronics Technologies• Initiated and carried out Fluorescence Imaging studies for wavelengths definition of Automated Optical Inspection equipment for optimal inspection performance of Thin Film Interconnect products.• Selected and qualified state of the art optical equipment for use in in-line manufacturing measurement and inspection.• Initiated backscattering imaging studies for equipment modification to consolidate AOI operations to a single tool, which resulted in improved defect detection performance.• Defined a methodology for the thickness measurement of photo-resist and polyimide materials. This technique produces a more reliable and accurate measurement through the use of a 2-dimensional interferometer approach for thickness mapping as opposed to a stylus profilometer.• Patent Disclosures:• Image overlapping optics adapter for chip placement alignment or joint positioner.• Optical detection of surfaces and subsurface defects, thickness, and slope measurement approach.