Experience Summary

Over 30 years Applied Optics Design experience

Optical System design for both reflective (mirrors) and refractive (lenses) imaging systems. Spectrography design UV-VIS-NIR for absorbance measurements. Visible Camera Design and Camera Test Equipment Design for VIS and Infrared. Design of Visible Light Sources including Projectors, Integrating Spheres and Fiber Optics. Design of Infrared Sources including Cavity Blackbodies and Extended Area Sources.

Extensive Experience with Light Sources

Designed products that use standard light sources including Quartz Tungsten Halogen, Deuterium, and Xenon. LED’s of specific wavelengths including Visible and IR into products. Incorporated Lasers from Visible to Infrared, CW to Short Pulse into products.

Engineering Project Management

Hired and built multidisciplinary Engineering teams to execute product development. Extensive experience developing products using MS Project for tracking projects.

30 years of Embedded System Design

Designed embedded systems from the early days when circuit boards were designed around microprocessor chips and the real time code was written in assembly language to the current day where off the shelf microprocessors boards are the heart of the systems and the firmware is written in open source languages (i.e. Python)

Spectroscopy

Designed and used products to perform spectral analysis on solids, liquids and gases. Typically used to detect the composition and measure concentration of the material under test.

Machine Vision

Developed Machine Vision Systems to grade fresh produce, control production processes, perform quality inspection of semiconductor IC’s and board assemblies. Key skill is creating the best possible image and lighting such that the software algorithms are presented with easy to measure images rather than marginal cases.

Validation

Software validation is well known in the medical device industry, but what is less understood is that embedded software runs on hardware in the hands of real people. Product Validation is a little understood topic that I have experience in. Failure to do Product Validation has led to high profile debacles such as the Boeing 737 Max and the 2020 Iowa caucuses. Software may work fine in a development environment until it is married with its intended hardware and put in the hands of actual users.

Regulatory Experience and Export Control

Experience in preparing and submitting for FDA 510K medical devices and ITAR export control of Infrared sensors.

Financial Analysis

Understand and act on business financial information such as P&L, balance sheets, etc. Generate the financial analysis for new product development such as Return on Investment (ROI) and Net Present Value (NPV).