Engineering/Physics Optical Instruments Consultant (172)
Experience
1986 - PRESENT
CONSULTANT
Specializing in optical systems; process control, lab. and clinical instruments. Complex reconnaissance instruments for US Govt.
1985 - 1986
American Holographic, Vice President Marketing
Acting Chief Engineer; engineering OEM products and test apparatus; primarily in blood analysis market.
1981 - 1985
HSS, Inc., Senior Staff Member
Worked closely with President to redirect the company from the military contract market to the civilian weather measuring market for airports; through visibility measuring instrument developing and marketing.
1974 - 1981
Jarrell-Ash Division; Fisher Scientific Company
Product Manager with P & L responsibility for the Physical Sciences group of instruments.
1972 – 1974
HSS, Inc., Senior Staff Member
Company team leader for shipboard field measurement program in South Pacific.
1967 - 1972
EGG, Inc., Staff Optical Engineer
Calibration and alignment procedures, invented a camera-calibration device that became a standard for Los Alamos Scientific Labs.
1958 - 1967
Barnes Engineering Company, Project Engineer
Light measuring devices for field and lab use. Designed and fabricated instruments for remote and optical measurements for temperature. Author and editor of feasibility study of infra-red instrumentation for an orbiting astronomical observatory.
1957 – 1958
Beckman Instrument Company, Engineer
On-stream gas analysis for petrochemical industry and pollution monitoring instrumentation.
Honors & Publications
Society for Analytical Spectroscopy
Optical Society of America
PUBLICATIONS
"Filters and Gratings, Not Always a Simple Choice", Lasers and Optronics, pp. 63-67, August 1987
"Know your Monochromator",Electro-Optical Systems Design, pp. 31-37, February 1979
"Determination of Atmospheric Transmission from Photographs of the Sea", presented at the Spring meeting of the Optical Society of America, 1974.
"Data Reduction and Spectrographic Instrumentation Study", EG & G Report B-4360, February 1972.
"A Nomograph of Grating Characteristics for the Spectroscopist", Applied Optics, Vol. 8, No.3, pp 581-582, March 1969.
"Study Report - Orbiting Astronomical Support Facility, Infra-Red Capability", Barnes Engineering Company report; July 7, 1967.
Education
M.S.E. in Instrumentation Engineering, University of Michigan
B.S.E. in Engineering Physics, University of Michigan
Business Administration, Merrimack College