Experience

Rain Technology

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal R&D Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  • Manage engineering effort to design and test components, create metrology protocols, and support the manufacturing of our hardware products
  • Liaise between the scientists who innovate Rain’s consumer display technologies and the companies that manufacture our products
  • Built and operate Rain Technology’s Metrology and R&D Prototype laboratory
  • Design & fabricate complex integrated prototype systems & components • Manage engineering effort to design and test components, create metrology protocols, and support the manufacturing of our hardware products
  • Liaise between the scientists who innovate Rain’s consumer display technologies and the companies that manufacture our products
  • Built and operate Rain Technology’s Metrology and R&D Prototype laboratory
  • Design & fabricate complex integrated prototype systems & components



RealD

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Optical Engineer

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2021

  • Founding member of 6-person R&D team that launched e-privacy display for consumer screens & automobile consoles • Designed product prototypes & demonstration systems that helped secure $80M+ from 2 licensing agreements resulting in over 2M shipped consumer display products • Developed multiple metrology tools for development and manufacturing line use • Worked closely with Asian partners to develop supply chain, transfer expertise, optimize manufacturing line, & quality assurance • Patented opto-mechanical solution that protected primary optics from devastating mechanical product test Show less



National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineer III, Concentrating Solar Power

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2013

  • Led design & development of innovative large-scale surface metrology & characterization tools • Performed system modeling, software and algorithm development, field-testing, performance specification & uncertainty analysis of camera-based measurement systems • Interfaced with the U.S. Department of Energy for project proposal, design, reporting, & management • Built ray casting model to simulate images of mirror arrays while developing an innovative camera-based mirror orientation tracking system for use in future power generation plants • Managed use of NREL’s dedicated Optical Characterization Laboratory Show less



in-phase technologies

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Product Development Engineer (Promoted from Material Test Engineer)

  • Oct 2001 - Feb 2010

  • Performed R&D & testing from early benchtop systems to advanced DVT stage to develop holographic storage drive • Designed & published calibration, qualification & functionality tests for hardware & firmware • Collaborated with chemists to develop novel photopolymer test methods & hardware systems for holographic storage medium development • Designed material lifetime & performance characterization tests while developing industry benchmark performance metrics • Led productization of first commercial holographic medium characterization apparatus that established industry standard Show less