Experience

Voxtel LLC

• United States
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Photoreceiver Development Engineer

  • Nov 2019 - Present

• Manufacturing Photoreceiver Engineer

  • Nov 2019 - Jan 2022

• Manufacturing Engineering Intern

  • Nov 2019 - Nov 2019



Electro Scientific Industries, Inc.

• Optics Engineer Intern

  • Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

  With assistance from the laser and optics R&D team, I developed and prototyped a displacement measuring fiber interferometer with sub-100 nanometer resolution to accurately track the movements of a translation stage. Using Python, I created a program that tracked the displacement of the stage relative to its initial position with directional discrimination by examining the change in phase of the interference pattern of the interferometer. The interferometer was constructed by fusion splicing different fiber components together and utilizing integrated circuit components to measure the intensity of the interference pattern, thus determining the phase difference. I also characterized a picosecond pulse laser using a Spiricon M2 tool to integrate the laser in a polygon scanner application. Show less


University of Oregon Graduate School
• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Masters Candidate

  • Jun 2018 - Oct 2019


Willamette University Physics Department

• Undergraduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

  I used a Quanta-Ray Nd:YAG ultrafast laser lasing at 532 nm to synthesize silver nanoparticles in water for my senior thesis research. My peers and I utilized the surface plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles to conduct spectroscopy using a Cary spectrophotometer. The spectroscopy data of our samples were analyzed using a Python code I developed. We found that the number of pulses ablating a silver piece will decrease the average size of the silver nanoparticles in the water. From our data and similar literature on gold nanoparticle synthesis, we theorized that the average size of the silver nanoparticles will decrease further if the silver nanoparticles are synthesized with 355 nm light. Show less

• NSF Grant Work Researcher

  • May 2017 - Jul 2017

  With grant funding from the NSF, we worked on projects meant to improve optics and photonics education for undergraduate students. This was done by writing lab-based lessons in optics, using video-editing software to create instructional videos on the construction and operation of optics equipment, and mentoring community college students with no background in optics.