SUMMARY:

Senior technician with over 30 years experience working with various optical systems in manufacturing and R&D environments. Wide range of visible optics, infrared and ultraviolet systems, fiber and inspection experience. Fiber optic experience includes: fiber optic component qualification, cleaving, splicing, polishing, terminating, tensile strength testing, system inspection and testing of single and multimode fiber optic cable assemblies. Fiber optic cable assembly testing included signal loss thru connecters and repeated connections. Optical experience includes: interferometry, laser and optical alignments, and optical manufacturing techniques. Quality experience includes all areas of inspection, optical and mechanical. Responsible for set up and development of Quality Assurance/Quality Control departments and brought several companies to compliance with the ISO standards and FDA specifications. Experience with development of various catheters including balloon, fiber optic and multi - port type.

EXPERIENCE:

Load Management Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Overview of equipment needed for various erection projects
• Ensure proper needed equipment was transported to correct job
• Concrete and steel skeleton buildings
• Scheduled needed supplies to each job site
• Delivered payroll to various job sites

Senior Quality Control Specialist

Confidential, Lowell, MA

Responsibilities:

• Incoming quality inspection of all material used in the manufacture of Bio Science medical devices
• Established procedures to aid in inspection duties
• Proficient in Agile and MiSys stock control programs
• Data entry in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word and Outlook
• Current with all GMP and FDA guidelines concerning medical device manufacture
• Maintain traceability of batch records and lot numbers
• Create Non-Conforming Reports for any product and provide failure analysis for Material review Board
• Perform internal audits to ensure compliance with 5S standards
• Tested purchased fiber optic cable assemblies for transmission and signal lose

Confidential, Nashua, NH

Responsibilities:

• Performed optical and functional testing on Target Reconnaissance Infra-Red Geolocation Rangefinder Products
• Testing including boresight and optical alignments, laser through-put testing, range calibration
• Complete electrical function checks
• Performed various Mil spec testing of various optical fiber assemblies used
• RF systems test and de-bugging for systems used on the F-22
• Tested fiber optic cable assemblies to Mil Specs

Confidential, Nashua, NH

Opto-mechanical Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Imaging MTF systems
• Knife edge MTF system
• Cooled and electronically cooled IR imaging systems -build, test and debug
• Write procedures to bring IR products from prototype to production
• Support Quality Assurance and Quality Control with first article inspections
• Use LUPI type interferometers in the IR to perform boresight tolerance performance
• Use of ZYGO type interferometers to measure radius and other interferometric parameters
• Zemax interpretive programs
• Surface quality inspections to Mil standards
• Use of profilometers to check aspheric shaped optics for accuracy
• Assemble precision optical devices for military and commercial markets

Confidential, Methuen, MA

Senior Optomechanical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Assemble, test and de-bug Fourier Transform Infra Red optical device incorporating UV, HeNe laser and visible light
• Inspect incoming and in-process optic components and optical sub-assemblies made from potassium bromide, replicated and polished optics
• Write procedures to assemble and test FTIR module including the use of ZYGO and various electronic test equipment (oscilloscope, power meter, digital multimeter, etc.)
• Train technicians for assembly and test of optic sub-assemblies and finished product

Confidential, Westford, MA

Consultant to Research and Development

Responsibilities:

• Assembled prototype fiber optic medical catheters for use in Optical Coherence Tomography
• Testing of fiber optic catheters utilizing Instron test for elasticity and tensile strength
• Assembly of fiber optic catheters with medical grade adhesives
• Longevity testing using various forms of repetitive motion
• Assisted in developing fiber optic splicing techniques to manufacture miniature lenses
• Assisted in bringing manufacturing to ISO and FDA compliance
• Worked with different types of optical fibers for various splicing techniques
• Worked with engineers to write procedures for assembling various catheters for medical and biological applications

Confidential, Andover, MA

Senior Mechanical Technician

Responsibilities:

• Proficient at polishing endfaces of fiber optic cable assemblies
• Polished endfaces of 11 to ¼ micron square waveguides
• Polished end faces for ideal optical coupling to various components and fibers
• Set up and outfitted polishing lab to polish fiber optics in ferrule using various epoxies
• Selected and qualified vendors for production of various optical cable assemblies
• Worked with outside vendors for possible outsourcing of manufacture of proposed products
• Selected and purchased optical test and production equipment for product development
• Maintain level of supplies for labs to ensure minimum impact of new product testing
• Responsible for purchase of all fiber optic components (fiber jumpers, various coupling and interfaces, attenuators etc.)
• Polished and terminated fiber optic cable assemblies with a Beuhler Fibermet polisher
• Tested and qualified optical fiber assemblies of various core, cladding and sheathing with a tunable laser source and an optical spectrum analyzer

Confidential, Chelmsford, MA

Associate Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in R&D optical group to develop new fiber optic products for metro market telecommunications systems company
• Responsible for all fiber optic component and fiber optic cable assembly qualification testing
• Tested and qualified wide variety of fiber optic passive components for DWDM applications thin film filter components for band and single channel drops fused bionic components including splitters, taps and 50/50 power splitters performed full spectral and thermal testing of components familiar with Telcordia testing requirements for passive components
• Testing of fiber optic cable assemblies for transmission, internal breakage and signal loss of various core material and cladding
• Experienced with fiber handling practices, including cleaving, splicing, polishing & terminating, and inspection
• Experienced with a wide variety of fiber optic cable testing equipment, including optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), tunable laser sources, fixed laser sources, cleaving and splicing equipment
• Worked with component and equipment vendors to ensure proper testing to specifications and troubleshoot quality problems
• Performed bit error rate measurements on OC-48 transmission and studied component variations
• Performed design verification testing, including temperature cycling, for optical cable assemblies
• Reworked surface mount PC boards for optical engineering department
• Responsible for calibration of all optical test equipment

Confidential, Wilmington, MA

Sr. Quality Control Specialist and Sr. Optical Technician

Responsibilities:

• Set up Quality Department to ISO 9001 specifications
• Perform 100% inspection on all space flight mechanical and optical hardware used in infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV) and visible (VIS) optical instruments
• Used CMM (Brown and Sharp) for inspection of close tolerance manufactured parts for flight telescopes
• Interferometric alignment and assembly of aerospace telescopes
• Qualified potential vendors for all mechanical and optical materials used in production
• Use of Theodolites to perform various angle measurements
• Alignment telescopes and autocollimators used in alignment of mirrors and other mediums
• Profilometers used for surface figure analysis
• Precision assembly of complex exo-atmospheric optical platforms for military and commercial applications

Confidential, Acton, MA

Assembly Technician

Responsibilities:

• Laser alignment and test of grazing incident optics for optical beamline applications
• Utilization of all machine shop facilities including milling machines and lathes

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

• First piece inspection and vendor qualification of molded plastic parts for prototype personal fax viewing device
• Assisted R&D department to assure vendor compliance to item specifications
• Responsible for initial set-up of Quality Control department

Confidential, Danvers, MA

Process Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Manufacture and test of prototype ultra-filtration devices
• Provide calibration services for all equipment
• Construct and debug prototype fixtures and equipment for eventual transfer to Manufacturing Department
• Preparation of reports and procedures
• Incoming, in-process and final inspection of disposable, ultra-filtration devices
• Assisted in bringing QC department into FDA compliance using GMP’s and SOP Instituted the preparation work for ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 certification

Confidential, Tewksbury, MA

Associate Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with R&D engineers to prototype new optical mechanical assemblies using fiber optics
• Developed and implemented design changes for manufacturability of catheter utilizing fiber optics assemblies
• Experienced with fiber handling practices, including cleaving, splicing, polishing, terminating, and inspection
• Testing of fiber optics for transmission and tensile strength
• Use of Durometers and Rockwell testing of material used in catheters.
• Instron tests performed to test breaking point of catheters
• Installation of balloon to catheters and testing to point of breaking
• Report all findings to Quality Engineers by report and verbal communication
• Longevity testing (balloon type catheters, multiport catheters and fiber optic type). Repetitive bend radius testing
• Working in a class 100 ppm clean room
• Inspected and tested fiber optic systems including transmission testing and bend radius inspection
• Worked with outside machine shops and vendors to develop specs and review requirements
• Responsible for purchase and set-up of machine shop tools, i.e. drill press, lathe, milling machine, etc., for R&D and production use
• Build and prototype of optical mechanical assemblies