Experience

Skorpios Technologies, Inc.

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer - Lead, Integration

  • Aug 2012 - Present

  Led development of integrated semiconductor manufacturing processes for state-of-the-art, highly specialized devices ― Biotechnology, aerospace/defense, 2.5D/3D architectures, and high-speed communications Created and executed technical plans, process flows, and schedules to establish feasibility and production pathways for disruptive technologies often outside of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Supervised development of, and directly developed, all major process modules in a 200mm/300mm Class 10 silicon production foundry, from idea through proof-of-concept and pilot production ― Metals/dielectrics (PVD/CVD/ALD), wet/dry etch, 193/248/365nm lithography, Cu BEOL, metrology, CMP, bond Performed technical program management for projects with budgets >$8M/year ― Nano-/microfluidic chemical/biological sensing ― Heterogeneous III-V integration ― MEMS, 3D stacked imaging sensing Coordinated process activities and monitored overlapping tasks/operations in a fab with over 30 R&D and production projects involving exotic materials and custom processing techniques, including borofloat glass and plasma dicing Managed three junior-level integration engineers and three integration technicians Analyzed characterization and yield data for new process and module evaluation, including automated test equipment (ATE), patterned defect scans, ellipsometry, and AFM Used custom/established analysis tools for process evaluation in root cause (RCA) and Pareto analyses, as well as for identifying critical device parameters and implementing statistical process control Organized failure analysis and physical/material characterization of fabricated structures (AFM, SEM, TEM, EDX) Scoped new projects and evaluated market opportunities to support Foundry Services Business Unit Maintained strict protection of customer and Skorpios IP, as well as ITAR and classified operations



Lynntech, Inc.

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Associate, Life Sciences Division

  • Jul 2008 - Aug 2012

  Designed, fabricated, and tested prototype devices and experimental systems for biological sensing and molecular diagnostics, with emphasis on diagnostics in low-resource settings and the developing world Constructed and evaluated prototypes for: ― Convective-flow PCR and real-time fluorescence analysis ― Magnetic particle sample preparation module Designed and performed experiments for organosilane functionalization and hybridization experiments with conjugated nucleic acid probes - imaging with fluorescence microscopy Coordinated research projects and designed/implemented molecular biology protocols, including qRT-PCR and ELISA Performed data analysis - microarray, nonlinear regression, pairwise clustering, dendrogram, artificial neural network Wrote Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants for federal agencies (primary/secondary proposal author): ― Phase I - A Vacuum-Actuated Microneedle Patch with Integrated Reservoir for Minimally Invasive Blood Sampling, Lead Author - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), $150,000, 6 months + 4 months Option ― Phase I (1 R43 AI082798-01) – Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Silicon Nanowire Biosensing Arrays, Project Lead – NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), $200,000, Feb 2009 – Jan 2010 ― Phase I (HDTRA1-10-P-0010) – An Integrated, Field Portable DNA Profiler for Forensics, Researcher – DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), $100,000, Feb 2010 – Sep 2010 ― Phase I (1 R43 AI092867-01A1) – Rapid and Cost-Effective Diagnostic System for Sexually Transmitted Infections, Researcher – NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), $200,000, Aug 2011 – May 2012 Co-wrote Lynntech Patent Disclosure - Rapid, Convection-Driven Thermal Cycler for Nucleic Acid Amplification



University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences

• Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Researcher - Synthetic Biology - International Genetically Engineered Machines

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2007

  Cambridge University Engineering Research - International Genetically Engineered Machines - MIT’s annual synthetic biology competition, where teams design and build genetic machines using standardized parts (BioBricks), as well as designing novel parts Constructed artificial peptide signaling system to enable different cell types to communicate in parallel Created DNA constructs of the Agr (Accessory Gene Regulator) signaling system from Staphylococcus aureus Created sender/receiver parts by splicing Agr constructs into standard BioBrick plasmids Growth/selection of bacterial cultures, plasmid DNA extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, transformations, digestions Presented at the iGEM conference (MIT, November 2007) Cambridge team won the Best BioBrick Part award for the competition out of 57 teams Presented to Cambridge Philosophical Society (Synthetic Biology – Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century)



Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher - Liquid Metal Deposition, Design and Implementation

  • Jun 2005 - Sep 2005

  Designed and began initial construction of a rapid manufacturing technology to deposit molten metal (aluminum, steel) Produced 3D models and 2D drawings for the extruder head using Pro/ENGINEER CAD software Designed control system for wire feed, temperature sensors, heater, and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) gantry Tuned CNC gantry axes using Proportional, Integral and Derivative (PID) control Built prototype circuit board for control system and began initial design of cooling system



EG&G Technical Services (now part of URS Corporation)

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Radar Measurement Technologist, US Air Force Contractor

  • Feb 2001 - Aug 2003

  Performed radar cross-section (RCS) and antenna pattern measurements - National RCS Test Facility (NRTF) Maintained all aspects of the radio frequency (RF) and control system pathway - hardware and software Performed failure analysis and made board-level repairs to RF and electronic circuitry Specified system upgrades/repairs/replacements and evaluated new components to ensure compliance and quality Programmed and implemented system for improved real-time monitoring of RF transmitter status at remote locations Designed, tested, and troubleshot various target and antenna positioning systems Established effective bench-testing protocols and specific pass/fail benchmarks for RF components Trained in classified operations and related Department of Defense protocols