SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Professional experience: Optical physicist and systems engineer with 39 years of experience. Significant work includes:

• Developed systems, seekers, and sensors for Missile Defense, Space Situational Awareness, Hypersonics.
• Analyzed & modeled radiometric signatures from re-entry vehicles, hypersonic threats, associated objects.
• Analyzed and measured effects of nuclear weapons & space radiation on optical components and systems.
• Researched technologies to monitor proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
• Invented and developed sensors for measuring density and thickness during hypervelocity collisions.
• Performed physics based modeling, development of trees for requirements flow, radiometric error, probability of kill

Education: BS, MS, ABD in physics and optical physics.

Technical expertise: Highly interdisciplinary with both breadth and depth.

• Physics based modeling - physics, lasers, optics, IR radiometry, nuclear & radiation effects, hypervelocity collisions, atmospheric optical turbulence
• First order analysis for requirements definition and systems trades
• Experimental development of sensors and instrumentation

Computer skills: Physics based modeling in MatLab, Python, Excel w/ VBA. Proficient in Word, Power Point, Project, html. Minor experience in C, C++, Fortran.

Communications skills: Developed and taught 26 hour technical course on lasers and applications, presented customer briefings, written numerous technical papers, presentations, and proposals. Developed and managed various websites.

Significant accomplishments: Creative problem solver as shown by:

• Granted a 1998 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine.
• 1 patent and 1 pending patent related to Hypervelocity impact characterization for use in missile defense and other space applications.
• 3 patents and 1 pending patent related to other missile defense technologies.
• 7 patents related to sensing and instrumentation for the power industry, chemical sensing, and characterization of ultra-low loss, ultra-high reflectance optical components.