Years: 1991 to Present |
Employer: Undisclosed |
Title: CTO |
Department: R&D and Engineering |
Responsibilities:
Design CNC laser micromachining and micro-forming manufacturing machines for optical fiber, quartz capillary, cane and rod. Design and build fiber optic and capillary draw towers for record breaking tensile strengths, reproducible low activity and reactivity, high temperature, NASA certified, ISO certified, MDD and FDA compliant. Design laser surgical instruments (two dozen patents), separation science components (three patents), remote spectroscopy fiber devices (half a dozen patents), lasers for surgery (five patents) and laser ordinance initiation (patents pending). |
Years: 1989 to 1991 |
Employer: PolymicroTechnologies |
Title: Manager |
Department: Engineering and R&D |
Responsibilities:
Managed R&D efforts including improvements to fiber and capillary draw, supported capillary column customers in troubleshooting, developed electrophoretic deposition of polyimides for prices and accurate cardiac pacemaker electrode insulation and axial failure mode, ultra high pressure compliant angioplasty balloons. |
Years: 1988 to 1989 |
Employer: Arizona State University |
Title: Post Doc Researcher |
Department: Biological and Materials Engineering |
Responsibilities:
Synthesis and characterization of perovskite thin films |
Years: 1984 to 1988 |
Employer: Arizona State University |
Title: Graduate Teaching Associate |
Department: Chemistry |
Responsibilities:
Taught lab courses in Instrumental Methods of Analysis, Organic Chemistry 1 & 2 while pursuing PhD research for dissertation in separation of zirconium and hafnium by inorganic gas chromatography for thermodynamic data in preparation for characterization of rutherfordium produced by a cesium ion beam imparting an americium target at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. |