Experience

Red Leader

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Optical Design Engineer

  • May 2020 - Jun 2023

  Key contributions toward Series A and B in optics design, prototyping, field testing and analysis for software-driven LIDAR



InView Technology Corporation

• President and CTO

  • Mar 2010 - Mar 2020

  Led development of opto-electronic hardware, computational imaging software and a portfolio of over 25 patents on Compressive Sensing technology. InView is the world's leader in commercializing compressive sampling techniques to reduce cost and improve the resolution of infrared cameras for microscopes, scientific and medical imaging. InView developed its camera into a computational platform for autonomous machine vision applications.



Lenore McMackin, Ph. D.

• Consultant

  • Jan 2007 - Mar 2010

  Hands-on development leader transforming IP into products for startup companies and the investment community. Recent projects include 3D imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and NIR system development.



nLine Corporation

• VP Engineering

  • 2005 - 2007

  nLine Corporation is a venture funded semiconductor wafer inspection tool manufacturer developing in-line systems based on digital holographic microscopy. – Directed aberration analysis of DUV microscope optics and noise reduction programs in hardware and processing including stability – Created full physical optics end-to-end defect simulation and coherent processing analysis – Led project planning for advanced Beta tool optical system – Led technical due diligence efforts in the… Show more nLine Corporation is a venture funded semiconductor wafer inspection tool manufacturer developing in-line systems based on digital holographic microscopy. – Directed aberration analysis of DUV microscope optics and noise reduction programs in hardware and processing including stability – Created full physical optics end-to-end defect simulation and coherent processing analysis – Led project planning for advanced Beta tool optical system – Led technical due diligence efforts in the sale of company and IP portfolio Show less



Keyotee Inc.

• Principal Scientist

  • 2003 - 2005

  A seed-round start-up integrating semiconductor and photonics technologies for miniaturized light projection engines – Led an interdisciplinary in-house technical team in the development of several prototypes, which included optics, MEMS, electronic control software and hardware, and semiconductor light sources, and guided the efforts of contractors and consultants. – Developed technology in micro-optics, scanning systems and semiconductor photonics – Defined fundamental system… Show more A seed-round start-up integrating semiconductor and photonics technologies for miniaturized light projection engines – Led an interdisciplinary in-house technical team in the development of several prototypes, which included optics, MEMS, electronic control software and hardware, and semiconductor light sources, and guided the efforts of contractors and consultants. – Developed technology in micro-optics, scanning systems and semiconductor photonics – Defined fundamental system constraints relating resolution and brightness to design features and manufacturing tolerances using the optical invariant and its fundamental implications for high resolution systems. – Determined opto-mechanical system tolerances and evaluated optical, mechanical and electronic system specifications. – Developed expertise in non-linear scanning and scan distortion compensation algorithms, developed beam propagation and radiometry models and algorithms for color mixing. Show less



Zebra Imaging

• United States
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Optical Engineer

  • 1999 - 2001

  – Led a multi-disciplinary team of specialists to design a fully-automated hologram printer – Designed, built and assembled a 3-color interferometric imaging system for the printer that produced the largest hologram ever made, which is now on display at the Austin Bergstrom Airport. – Led the optical-mechanical-computational integration team that converted the working prototype to a continuously operating production machine – Wrote the operating and troubleshooting manual for the… Show more – Led a multi-disciplinary team of specialists to design a fully-automated hologram printer – Designed, built and assembled a 3-color interferometric imaging system for the printer that produced the largest hologram ever made, which is now on display at the Austin Bergstrom Airport. – Led the optical-mechanical-computational integration team that converted the working prototype to a continuously operating production machine – Wrote the operating and troubleshooting manual for the printer and implemented a successful operator training program. Show less



Air Force Research Laboratory

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Physicist

  • 1992 - 1999

  Procured over $2M in highly competitive funding through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and led the technical and experimental direction of other scientists, post-docs and students – Created a 4-year basic research program to design and build a high-speed optical tomography system that produced the first detailed visualizations of dynamic air turbulence. – Developed an optical interferometry-based scalable surface profile measurement technology, a hybrid optical and… Show more Procured over $2M in highly competitive funding through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and led the technical and experimental direction of other scientists, post-docs and students – Created a 4-year basic research program to design and build a high-speed optical tomography system that produced the first detailed visualizations of dynamic air turbulence. – Developed an optical interferometry-based scalable surface profile measurement technology, a hybrid optical and computational process for quantitatively determining surface profile defects over a three-order-of-magnitude feature-size range of 5 microns to 1 millimeter. Show less