SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Highly Experienced Optical Systems Design Engineer / Math Modeler / Statistical Analyst
• Strong Leadership, Management and Organizational Skills
• Interdisciplinary Engineering in Software, Electronics, Mechanical and Manufacturing
• Fluent in Zemax, Statistica, Mathcad, Crystal Ball and MS Project
• TOP SECRET/SCI Clearance
• Strong customer interfacing skills on complex engineering systems
• Ability to use advanced mathematics creatively across disciplines
• Personable with ability to explain abstract and complex concepts clearly to non-experts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRINCIPLE OPTICAL DESIGN ENGINEER (Consulting) 2009 - present
Mirrorcle Technologies, Richmond CA
STATISTICIAN (Consulting) 2010 - present
Naval Postgraduate School, Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation Institute, Monterey CA
SENIOR STAFF SYSTEMS ENGINEER, Electro-Optical Design & Engineering 2001 - 2010
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto CA 1998 - 2001
STAFF SYSTEMS ENGINEER, Optical Design & Manufacturing 2001
Product Development Department, Blaze Network Products, Dublin CA
ASSISTANT OPERATIONS MANAGER & SYSTEMS ENGINEER 1996 - 1998
Laser & Optical Systems Department, TRW, Redondo Beach CA 1987 - 1991
SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ENGINEERING STAFF, Optical Design & Manufacturing 1991 - 1996
Corporate Research and Development, Xerox, El Segundo CA
MILITARY
COMMANDER, UNITED STATES NAVY Reserves: 1987 - present
U.S. Navy and Navy Reserves Active: 1984 - 1987
AREAS OF EXPERTISE/SIGNIFICANT ACOMPLISHMENTS
Mirrorcle Technologies (Consulting)
• Optical designer developing ultra-compact high resolution projection displays using MEMs mirror & laser diodes
Naval Postgraduate School (Consulting)
• Statistician currently analyzing 3D display technology for military simulators
Lockheed Martin
• Lead Integrated Product Team (4 engineers, 3 interns) optical systems design for Airborne Laser (ABL) AM program
• Lead IPT (12 engineers) optical design for laser beam containment and hardware abort safety system for ABL
• Hardware Abort System successfully protected the ABL during 2009 flight when a mirror coating failed!
• Optical design of MgF2 and Sapphire waveplate systems and Risley Prism pair for ABL
• Generated ABL system polarization model based on Jones polarization matrices (Mathcad and Matlab)
• Generated full system power throughput radiometry model for ABL (Excel)
• Statistical parameter study to develop control algorithm for zoom lens (Statistica)
• Mentored 2 summer interns who presented a total of 6 presentations to the customer 7 weeks after joining LM
• Procurement engineer for NASA’s Solar B Space Telescope Focal Plane Package program
• Constructed vendor database and managed vendor performance
• Wrote Optical Blocker Filter Specification, Beam Splitter Specification and shop orders
• Lead radiometry and probability modeling of false positive/false negative (i.e., & errors) of laser abort safety system
Blaze Network Products
• Built comprehensive optical filter bandwidth tolerance model (Excel and Mathcad)
• Instituted precision metrology statistical program including Goniometric Radiometer and Beamscan
• Performed extensive metrology on miniature plastic optics uncovering fabrication errors and disproving performance issues were due to design errors
• Designed plastic lens array in Zemax with tilted filter block resulted in zero defects in 70,000 units to date!
TRW
• Operations Manager for Laser (60 personnel) and Pointer Tracker (25 personnel) Subsystems on the Army’s THEL area defense laser program. Responsible for schedule and cost variance, staffing, action items, resource allocation, administrative troubleshooting, logistics and planning. Wrote extensive package to relocate THEL team overseas.
• THEL has successfully shot down 28 Katyusha artillery rockets and 5 artillery shells!
• Laser and optical design, analysis and systems engineering on the Navy's MIRACL high energy laser program, the Air Force's ALPHA Space Based high energy laser program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (National Ignition Facility) laser fusion program and NASA's AXAF (Chandra) x-ray telescope program.
• Modeled fabrication of X-ray optics using Preston's Equation for AXAF (Chandra) space telescope (Mathcad)
• Dynamic analysis of stability under high vacuum of the ALPHA Space Based Laser Optical Bench Assembly (Mathcad)
• Performed failure analysis and identified sub-Hertz (85 milliHz) noise in optical bench LVDTs (Excel)
• Modeled optical diagnostic system's power budget for ALPHA Space Based Laser (Excel)
• Performed failure analysis and identified 60/120 Hz noise in ALPHA laser power calorimeter (Excel)
• Extensive data analysis and precision calibration of ALPHA’s grating (Excel)
• Wrote Interface Control Document for Extreme Ultraviolet Laser (EUV) program
Xerox
• Optical Design of laser diode based high performance scanner for color copier (Code V and ASAP)
• Optical Design of double bounce raster output scanner which doubled copier print speed (Code V and ASAP)
• Designed, constructed, aligned and operated laser diode collimator alignment station
• Performed detail investigation of plastic optics technology
• Initiated, planned, lead and implemented the reengineering of the Raster Output Scanner Business Center of Xerox over a three year period. This resulted in immediate productivity gains of over $2,200,000. ROS Business Center is one of only two organizations that remain of the ten or so that Xerox had in El Segundo CA in the mid 90’s!
• Organized 5 engineering laboratories cover...
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