Experience

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  Alakai Defense Systems Inc.

  • Largo, Fl

  • Senior Optical Engineer

    • May 2019 - Present
    • Largo, Fl

    The usual. Designing optical systems. Teaching computers to do my job. Being sassy. etc.

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  Thorlabs, Inc

  • United States
  • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Optical Engineer

    • Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

    Designed and developed optical systems, mainly for microscopy.

  • Optical Design Engineer

    • Apr 2016 - Aug 2017

    Designed and developed products for femtosecond lasers.

  • Design Engineer

    • Nov 2013 - Mar 2016

    R&D in mid-infrared electro-optical systems.

  • Applications Engineer

    • Nov 2011 - Nov 2013

    Solved problems mainly relating to optics.

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  Trex Hawaii, LLC

  • Kahului, Maui, Hawaii

  • Staff Engineer

    • Jun 2007 - Dec 2009
    • Kahului, Maui, Hawaii

    Developed and supported electro-optical systems at the observatory on Haleakala.

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  The Ohio State University, Department of Physics

  • Columbus, OH

  • Research Assistant

    • May 2005 - Jun 2007
    • Columbus, OH

    Created and modified LabView programs to work with lab equipment for data acquisition and laser operationMaintained and operated terawatt laser system for data acquisitionSet up, aligned and cleaned optical elements and equipment to optimize laser mode quality for the terawatt laser systemUsed C++ for theoretical calculations and statistical methods to fit and interpret dataWrote genetic algorithms to operate deformable mirror for optimization of laser mode qualityPresented genetic algorithm and deformable mirror work at the undergraduate Denman Research Forum