Experience

Spectra-Physics

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principle Optical Engineer

  • Nov 2022 - Present

• Senior Optical Engineer

  • Feb 2021 - Oct 2022



Topcon Healthcare Solutions

• United States
• Medical Devices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Oct 2019 - Feb 2021

  At Topcon Healthcare Solutions, I work as an optical research scientist in the R&D team to develop state-of-the-art ophthalmic medical imaging devices to visualize the retina. My primary job function involves evaluating system costs, building prototypes, and quantifying imaging performance to create novel ophthalmic devices, such as optical coherence tomography and fundus cameras. I work extensively with optical design software (Zemax Opticstudio) to design fixation targets, low-light imaging systems, illumination systems, and laser scanners to advance new product development for ophthalmology applications. I also determine the design specifications and work with industry suppliers of CMOS image sensors, LEDs, superluminescent diodes, galvanometers mirrors, fiber optics, optical lenses, and gratings for the next generation of medical devices at Topcon. Show less



University of Rochester

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Candidate

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2019

  I was responsible for the design, construction, and operation of a high-power laser system at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. This involved interfacing with large teams of scientists, engineers, technicians, and machinists. I developed a number of computational scripts and analytic equations to analyze and interpret the data. The results were organized and communicated to the scientific community through 10+ conference presentations and three peer-reviewed journal articles.• A member of a 30+ international multidisciplinary team to develop the first laser plasma amplifier that will enable the next generation of high-intensity laser systems• Worked with a team of scientists to develop the physical understanding and theoretical tools necessary to plan the experimental platform capabilities• Point of contact for 10+ engineers, technicians, and machinists• Organized, prioritized, and tracked the project's timeline• Communicated expectations and coordinated with mechanical engineers, optical engineers and vendors to obtain and track several hundreds of optics, optomechanics, electronics and hardware in a timely manner• Wrote operational procedures for the optical subsystem, software controls, and vacuum system• Expertise in pneumatic systems, electronic controls and vacuum systems in a clean room environment• Designed, constructed, calibrated and operated 10+ optical diagnostics and a gas cell target• Built numerous fiber optic systems requiring assembling, striping, epoxying, cleaving, polishing, and aligning optical fibers• Developed the MATLAB based data acquisition system• Utilized MATLAB, FRED, and OSLO to select necessary optical and optomechanical components• Wrote MATLAB scripts to process, fit, and visualize time-resolved spectroscopy, interferometry, angular filter refractometry, and polarimetry• Utilized image processing algorithms such as registration, edge and peak detection, noise reduction, and Fourier filtering Show less

• Graduate Student Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2012 - May 2013

  • I taught the advanced laboratory course for senior physics majors. My responsibilities included assisting students with laboratory instruction, grading and office hours. • I oversaw recitation sections for an introductory physics course for non-physics majors. I facilitated problem-solving with 40+ students and held weekly office hours and grading.



NASA Langley Research Center

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

  • Restored, assessed capabilities and operated a differential absorption Lidar that was used in remote ground-based measurements of atmospheric ozone • Restored, assessed capabilities and operated a differential absorption Lidar that was used in remote ground-based measurements of atmospheric ozone



Fermilab

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lee Teng Undergraduate Fellowship

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  • Compiled material property data into a model that was used to study the thermodynamic behavior of magnet coils and to calculate the quench levels of the superconducting magnets • Compiled material property data into a model that was used to study the thermodynamic behavior of magnet coils and to calculate the quench levels of the superconducting magnets



St. Cloud State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2009 - May 2011

  • Designed and built a time of flight measurement scheme to compare electron mobility in various organic semiconductors and conducted a computational study of electrostatic potential maps to understand the results.

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

  • Engaged students in active learning through daily group projects for CHEM 160 Preparatory Chemistry from spring 2008 to fall 2009 at St. Cloud State University.



University of Alabama at Birmingham

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2010 - Jul 2010

  • Studied oxygen's effect on the growth of single crystal diamond using a microwave plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition system. • Studied oxygen's effect on the growth of single crystal diamond using a microwave plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition system.