Experience

Atia Vision

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Scientist

  • Jul 2020 - Present



Self-employed

• Fort Worth, TX

• optics designer

  • Sep 2019 - Jun 2020



Alcon Novartis

• Fort Worth, TX

• Senior Principal Scientist

  • Nov 2011 - Sep 2019

  Advanced Intraocular Lens (IOL) Design, Research and Specification. Sub-team leader on project core teams. One patent awarded and two clinical studies. Advanced Intraocular Lens (IOL) Design, Research and Specification. Sub-team leader on project core teams. One patent awarded and two clinical studies.



Geospatial Systems

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Staff Optical Engineer

  • Sep 2005 - Sep 2010

  Performed work on the following ITT programs: ABI – GOES-R, AHI (Himawari), Corsair, CrIS, VIIRS Alternate, HES, HITB, COMS, and GLM. These are government sponsored programs for the design and manufacture of weather satellite and remote-sensing instruments which operate in the VNIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR. Activities were: Optical system analysis Tolerancing and MTF analysis Oversight of telescope manufacturing processes Wrote coating manufacturing specifications Customer source inspections of substrates and coatings Beamsplitter coating design Bandpass filter coating design and analysis Optical footprint analysis Optical telescope design Polarization analysis Wrote acceptance test plans Presented and participated in numerous teleconferences, technical interchange meetings and formal reviews on the ABI program (telescope, aft optics, detector) and Corsair Expert with CodeV, Zemax and Essential Macleod. Proficient with TFCalc and Matlab. Introduction to ASAP, Non-sequential ray tracing ITT Training: Integrated Product Team Leader course; required ITAR, Safety, and Security Training; Zemax, CodeV, TipQA (self-taught) and Windchill (self-taught) Show less



Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Aug 2002 - Jul 2005

  Taught courses in Optical Metrology, Lens Design using CODE V, Paraxial Optics, Optics Projects and freshman Physics. Department of Physics. Taught courses in Optical Metrology, Lens Design using CODE V, Paraxial Optics, Optics Projects and freshman Physics. Department of Physics.



Opticote Inc

• Chicago, IL

• Process Engineer

  • Aug 2001 - Jan 2002

  Developed coating processes for ophthalmic applications. Supervisor: Edwin Ellefsen, President of Opticote Inc. Developed coating processes for ophthalmic applications. Supervisor: Edwin Ellefsen, President of Opticote Inc.