RESUME

September 2008 – December 2011

• Consulting for a number of technology companies – one a major player in the magnetron sputter coating of float glass.
• Design and prototype a consumer appliance involving electrics, glass, 3D printed ABS plastic parts, metal parts and modeling with SolidWorks 3D CAD application.
• Interaction with an electrochromic coating company.
• Submitted Provisional Application for essentially two patents in area of Electrochromic Coating Design and Production.

June 2005 – August 2008 AFG/AGC (Asahi Glass Company) R&D Group Petaluma, CA

Senior Research Scientist

• Extensive modeling of architectural glass coatings for solar control.
• Extensive involvement with production in innovating sophisticated process control for very complex high-speed architectural coatings. Substantial involvement in developing improved tests and measurements for coatings, in new product development and intellectual property matters.
• Designing and reverse engineering complex multi-layer Low-e optical thin film coating stacks for large scale production. Innovation and implementation of novel and powerful means of design and analysis of complex multilayer optical thin film stacks.
• Critical and strategic assessment of a large number of magnetron sputter deposition  patents relevant to AGC.
• Designing and implementing various instruments for characterizing architectural Low-e coatings.
• Applying very sophisticated neural image recognition systems to industrial problems.
• Note: AGC Closed their Petaluma R&D facility in August 2008.

February 2003 –  June 2005

• Consulting for a number of technology companies.
• Marketing ion beam and electron beam systems.

November 2002 – February 2003

• Acting as Trade Secret Inspector for Deposition Sciences Inc., Santa Rosa, CA in a matter related to magnetron sputter deposition of optical thin films for telecommunications and US government purposes.

1997 - 2002 SOLA Optical USA (R&D), Petaluma, California
Principal Research Scientist/Internal Consultant

• Developed significantly improved processes for reactive magnetron sputter deposition of optical thin films by innovative patentable techniques
• Commissioned sputter deposition improvements worth $3M per year in full production
• Contributed to the solution of long-standing problems in bonding MatrixTM ophthalmic lenses and generated a number of other ideas for new products and processes
• Transferred two production e-beam AR coaters to SOLA plant in Guang Zhou, China. Tutored and assisted novice staff to bring them into production
• Assisted a SOLA laboratory when they struck trouble with the innovation of a new and company-critical AR coating system.

March - April 1997 Acted as Expert Witness in Dispute between Applied Vision, Ltd, UK and Optical Coating Laboratories Inc. (OCLI), Santa Rosa, CA, involved in Vacuum Deposition of Optical Thin Films
 
1988 - 1997 SOLA International Holdings R&D, Adelaide, South. Australia.
Research Manager/Chief Scientist

• Led the Physical Technology and Strategic Quality Group of about 30 scientists and engineers engaged in optical thin films, strategic quality, measurement science and ophthalmic lens design for a $500M multinational company
• The Physical Technology Group I led developed new high value added products which contributed about $20M per year (over 40%) of the profit of SOLA worldwide
• Pivotally involved in achievement of six highly esteemed Optical Laboratory Association (USA) awards for lens design and new materials innovation
• Effective project manager for the innovation of SOLA's novel UV cured SpectraliteTM stock lens production process
• Very significantly improved several of SOLA's traditional processes including lens design, cast lens production, mold production and associated measurement technologies

1968 - 1997 Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Division of Applied Physics/National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, Australia
Research Manager, Principal Research Scientist

• Led and Managed seven groups (about 77 people) of the largest and most prestigious physics, optics, standards and engineering research laboratory in Australia
• Groups included:- Optics and Thin Films, Radiometry and Photometry, Optical Fabrication (super precise surfaces), Acoustics and Vibration, Length Standards (lasers and interferometry), and Engineering Metrology
• Principal Australian Scientist on a joint ESA/NASA space project which successfully developed a state-of-the-art lithium niobate, electro-optic, imaging spectrometer suitable for space deployment
• Saved the Division of Applied Physics approximately AUD1M per year in ongoing utility costs principally by rationalizing electricity, gas and communication services
• Rationalized national standards calibration procedures and implemented cost reduction and recovery measures
• Invented a Far Infrared and Millimeter-Wave, Interferometric, Polarizing Spectro-Radiometer which has become the instrument of choice for broad band spectroscopy in the relevant three decades of the electromagnetic spectrum (wavelengths 10 micron to 10 millimeter)

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