Previous Experience
Power Athletics, Inc. - 2002-Present
- Design Engineer / CFO, Worked with partner to bring U.S. Patent 6,126,500 into production
- Transitioned invention through prototyping and evaluation, and finally to production
- Created part drawings and specifications, secured suppliers, and managed production chain
- Marketed and sold products to private and public rowing institutions
Secure Storage, Inc. - 2005-Present
- General Manager / CFO, Responsible for day-to-day operations of family business
- Frequent involvement with construction and maintenance tasks of 6 acre site
- Responsible for tax records, debt management, profit stream
- Ensure business procedures are current with local laws and regulations
TriQuint Semiconductor - 2004-2005
- Design Engineer / Test Set Development, Designed, created, and transferred to production, automated sets for testing high-speed lasers, receivers, and transceivers
- Primarily responsible for mechanical and electrical design of device test fixtures
- Developed and modified software for testing and data collection
Lucent Technologies / Agere Systems - 2000 - 2002
- Detector FMA Engineer, Worked in APD & PIN detector sub-assembly group, supported wafer fab and consulted with receiver production
- Diagnosed and supplied corrective action for a variety of receiver failure modes, especially ESD damage and false-failures from test-sets
- Rewrote significant amounts of test-set software to improve production performance
- Design Engineer / Team Leader, Assembled a team to design a higher performance, lower cost optical receiver. Helped to lead team through design, prototyping, evaluating and pricing
- Worked with team to designed 10 Gb/s Optical receiver with record-setting performance
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania - 1995 - 2000
- Materials Research, Graduate student and Master’s Degree Graduate
- Analyzed samples using optical and electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, Rutherford back-scattering, Auger microprobe, and electron microscopy (SEM & TEM)
- Materials Failure Consulting, Conducted materials analysis to determine root cause of failure in modern materials engineering problems.
- Identified problematic materials and/or processing techniques and determined preventative measures.
Technical Skills
- UNIX scripting, AWK, SQL-Plus, Web Design
- Visual Basic, Delphi, and Visual C++ programming
- Oracle, and SQL database interactions
- Excel, S-Plus, and MS Office Suite
- CAD mechanical design and Finite Element Analysis (SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCad)
- Motion Control and Vision Systems
- Technical Documentation and ISO certification
- Scanning Electron Microscopy, Auger Spectrometry, Tensile and Fatigue Mech. Testing, etc.
Education
- M.S.E, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2000
4.0 / 4.0 GPA, Minor in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: “Dynamic Embrittlement of Cu-based Bicrystals Grown from the Melt” - B.S.E, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
Magna Cum Laude, Minor in Mathematics - High School, Nauset Regional High School, Eastham, MA, 1995