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Expert Details

Specialty Optical Fiber from Draw Tower to Sterile Product

ID: 738828 Arizona, USA

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Specialty fiber optics (ASF, polyimide, Hard Polymer) and silica capillary draw including the sole laser power delivery optical fiber that is NASA certified for space flight, and fiber optic devices derived therefrom including LOI, spectroscopy and laser surgery including FDA clearance. Side fire fibers is Expert's specialty with more than a dozen side fire patents allowed.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1984 Degree: BS Subject: Microbiology with chemistry minor Institution: Arizona State University
Year: 1977 Degree: AAS Subject: Electronics Technology Institution: USAF School of Applied Aerospace Sciences

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1991 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: CTO Department: R&D and Engineering
Responsibilities:
Design CNC laser micromachining and micro-forming manufacturing machines for optical fiber, quartz capillary, cane and rod. Design and build fiber optic and capillary draw towers for record breaking tensile strengths, reproducible low activity and reactivity, high temperature, NASA certified, ISO certified, MDD and FDA compliant. Design laser surgical instruments (two dozen patents), separation science components (three patents), remote spectroscopy fiber devices (half a dozen patents), lasers for surgery (five patents) and laser ordinance initiation (patents pending).
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1989 to 1991 Employer: PolymicroTechnologies Title: Manager Department: Engineering and R&D
Responsibilities:
Managed R&D efforts including improvements to fiber and capillary draw, supported capillary column customers in troubleshooting, developed electrophoretic deposition of polyimides for prices and accurate cardiac pacemaker electrode insulation and axial failure mode, ultra high pressure compliant angioplasty balloons.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1988 to 1989 Employer: Arizona State University Title: Post Doc Researcher Department: Biological and Materials Engineering
Responsibilities:
Synthesis and characterization of perovskite thin films
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1984 to 1988 Employer: Arizona State University Title: Graduate Teaching Associate Department: Chemistry
Responsibilities:
Taught lab courses in Instrumental Methods of Analysis, Organic Chemistry 1 & 2 while pursuing PhD research for dissertation in separation of zirconium and hafnium by inorganic gas chromatography for thermodynamic data in preparation for characterization of rutherfordium produced by a cesium ion beam imparting an americium target at Lawrence Berkeley Labs.

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