Jan 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Tucson, Arizona, United States · Remote

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr

• Co-Chair, COMS WORLD 2020 www.comsworld2020.com

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr

• Marketing sub-committee/social media focus

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Marketing sub-committee/social media focus
• MANCEF (Micro And Nano Commercialization Emerging-technologies/Education Foundation) 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization connects a global community focused on commercializing micro and nanotechnology emerging technologies through conferences and educational efforts.
• Join us at our COMS2020 conference and exhibition in the greater Washington D.C. area in October 2020 (see link below).
• For more information about MANCEF visit our website: http://www.mancef.org/

May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Cambridge, MA · Hybrid

• 🔵 INVIZA Corporation (D.B.A. INVIZA® Health) is a pioneering MedTech company transforming consumer-wellness, healthcare/home care, fitness, & safety monitoring through self-charging wearable tech and an AI-based software platform.
• 🟦 REMOTE MONITORING PLATFORM * — Products lines:
• 1️⃣ InvizaSAFE™ — Consumer-wellness Remote Awareness Monitoring (C-RAM)
• SAFE C1.0 — Consumer safety & activity monitoring (accurate fall detection, GPS location & SOS alerts w/ LTE cellular and Bluetooth plus accurate fitness tracking)
• SAFE C2.0 — Consumer wellness, safety & fitness w/ vitals (HR, HRV, RR, SpO₂, temp)
• 2️⃣ InvizaCARE™ — Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
• CARE M1.0 — Built on SAFE C2.0 w/ clinically accurate vital signs and app-based digital therapeutics "DTx" (in IRB approved pilots and an upcoming clinical trial)
• Our flagship hardware, InvizaSoles™ — Smart insoles with embedded Edge AI/ML that monitor vital signs in real-time. Powered by patent-pending 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳™, the smart insole self-charges from users’ steps and delivers 40-90 days of battery life w/o wireless recharging (battery life depends on configuration and user daily activity).
• 🧠 Software Ecosystem
• InvizaSafe™ and InvizaCare™ Apps — Real-time insights for caregivers and users
• InvizaCloud™ — HIPAA/DoD-secure AI analytics for early health risk detection
• InvizaPortal™ — User, caregiver, and clinician dashboards for real-time oversight (includes CivTAK — DoD developed mapping “Tactical Awareness Kit” software for civilian use).
• Designed for healthcare systems, home care, retirement & assisted living, nursing homes. and VA hospitals, INVIZA delivers actionable insights that improve health, fitness, and safety-outcomes, enhance safety, and reduce costs.

Jun 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Fort Collins, Colorado · On-site

• Advanced Energy Industries Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AEIS) Worldwide Applications Technology department deals with applications engineering, business development and strategic marketing in the area of thin film deposition or etch via plasmas generated using state-of-the-art power supplies for:
• ✅ industrial coatings, including large area and roll-to-roll "R2R";
• ✅ flat panel displays, including micro-LED and OLED;
• ✅ optical coatings - e.g. decorative coatings for mobile electronics;
• ✅ precision optical coatings - e.g. filters;
• ✅ photovoltaic (PV) solar cell;
• ✅ semiconductor, including MEMS/sensors; and
• ✅ architectural glass.
• including DC/AC and RF power for the aforementioned and more thin film applications.
• My intent is to elevate AE’s worldwide thought-leadership status in the areas of the aforementioned thin film applications. To this end, strategic partnerships for R&D and commercialization are being established and a customer showcase laboratory has been opened near Frankfurt, Germany (see link below to press release from October 10, 2019).
• Advanced Energy® Power Solutions ~ www.advanced-energy.com

Jan 2018 – Jun 2018 · 5 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · Hybrid

• Meso- and micro-scale energy harvester product development and market evaluation.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · Mechnical Engineering, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY

Aug 2016 – Jul 2017 · 11 mos

• Advisor for Company during acquisition period.

May 2012 – Jul 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• The original piezoMEMS vibration energy harvester (VEH) prototypes were developed at Cornell University's NanoScale Science and Tech Facility (cnf.cornel.edu) for Dr. Andosca's Ph.D. dissertation research. The research included developing an analytical model from first principles for an end-mass loaded piezo-MEMS micro-cantilever. The research showed both theoretically and experimentally why "Low-K" (dielectric constant) piezoelectric materials, such as aluminum nitride (AlN) and zinc oxide (ZnO) were superior to the industry go-to "High-K" piezoelectric material, lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) for energy generation and sensing applications.
• The research concluded by enabling a Texas Instruments wireless sensor mote mounted on a fish pump vibrating at 60 Hz and 0.6 g (g = 9.8 m/s^2). At this low G-level, the power generated was ~20 microWatts post AC/DC conversion through an LTC3588 chip from Linear Technologies (now part of Analog Devices).
• The piezoMEMS VEH prototypes were later (post PhD) transferred to 200 mm volume production at X-Fab (xfab.com) in Germany under direction of MicroGen Systems Inc. Both 120 Hz and 600 Hz devices were launched into production with glass wafer-level packaging (WLP). The 600 Hz chips were comprised of two end-mass loaded micro-cantilevers that produced 240 microWatts (DC) at 1 g.
• The 600 Hz devices were used in powering a tire-mounted tire-pressure monitoring sensor (TPMS) module. The self-charging-hybrid TPMS module using a standard coin-cell battery (for static pressure measurements) and two piezo-MEMS VEH devices with resonant frequencies set apart by ~70 Hz. Energy was generated between 35-75 mph (57-121 kph). The target application was long-haul commercial Class 8 truck tires for Bridgestone. MicroGen and Bridgestone worked together for 4-years conducting over 50 in-tire tests at up to 75 mph (121 kph). The piezo-MEMS VEH devices never suffered any breakage, where these components were capable of up to 4,000 g drop shock.

Feb 2007 – May 2012 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Technology commercialization startup company from The University of Vermont.

Mar 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Canandaigua, NY

• Managed MEMS programs, and performed electro-mechanical and process design. Program management, and proposal writing.
• Managed Army Research Laboratory contract to develop a piezo-MEMS based vibration energy harvester (pVEH). Developed pVEH design and process flow. Fabricated first prototypes and tested (see profile cover SEM photo of thin micro-cantilever structure with thick electroplated Au masses for resonant frequency tuning).

Jan 2007 – May 2012 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• My research for my Ph.D. in Materials Science (multi-disciplinary program in EE, ME and Physics) from UVM (www.uvm.edu) was completed at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (www.cnf.cornell.edu) and MicroGen Systems, Inc. started in the Cornell Business and Technology Park in Ithaca, NY. The latter was technology development for The University of Vermont and academic research commercialization. I was awarded >$4M in government funding, including Army Research Lab (ARL), Centerstate CEO, and Cornell Energy Materials Center (www.emc2.cornell.edu) and NYSTAR, NASA, NYSERDA, and other sources.

Feb 2006 – Oct 2006 · 8 mos

• I managed the development of a microfluidic solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) wafer/die process for a MEMS-based fuel cell. The intent was to replace standard batteries and generate power to operate laptop computers, and cell phones for an extended period of time. This was done initially at a local MEMS foundry, where I managed the off-site development. Later Lillipution brought up a 150 mm MEMS fab in Wilmington, MA (former Corning IntelliSense building and fab). I established and managed the procurement of the fab toolset. I managed the process transfer/development of the SOFC wafer process, where we had 97% yield on our first lots fabricated.

Feb 2005 – Feb 2006 · 1 yr

• I was in charge of developing a microfluidic solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) wafer/die process for a MEMS-based fuel Cell. The effort's intent was to replace standard batteries and generate power to operate laptop computers, and cell phones for an extended period of time. This was done initially at a MEMS foundry, where I managed the SOFC devellopment and was the liaison with this off-site development facility.

Jan 2004 – Feb 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo · Woburn, MA

• I formed strategic partnerships with MEMS foundries, including Infotonics. I managed a fabless MEMS design team. I wrote proposals for goverment funding.

Jan 2003 – Dec 2003 · 11 mos

• Managed a Umicore wholly-owned Boston-based Company of 25 employees, including finance, human resources, engineering, manufacturing and sales. Responsible for profit and loss of company. Proposed, developed and created new business function of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and germanium-on-insulator (GeOI) substrate products. Increased sales over 50% during tenure at Boston operation. Managed 300mm Ge substrate development in Belgium.

Jun 2002 – Nov 2002 · 5 mos

• I was the Technical Leader of Corning IntelliSense's Emerging Business Unit focused on RF MEMS. I was the lead MEMS engineer for several foundry programs, including an RF MEMS capacitvely-couple switch (external customer), and a microfluidic device (external customer) for the biomedical industry. The RF MEMS switch program led to a strategic partnership with a large defense contractor. In addition, the microfluidic device was sucessfully transferred to manufacturing with sustained high yield.
• One (1) additional patent application submitted for 3D optical switch design.

Sep 2001 – Jun 2002 · 9 mos

• Lead engineer, where I worked across different teams, such as modeling (FEA), process development, and packaging and test. Focused primarilly on external foundry customer projects, including an RF switch and a microfluidic device. Electro-mechanical and process design, process integration and development. Plasma processing (PECVD, RIE, DRIE) was my specialty. DOE, SPC, and other analysis techniques utilized.
• One (1) patent application submitted for 3D optical switch design.

Dec 2000 – Sep 2001 · 9 mos

• I was an R&D supervisor (split shift), where I managed five (5) engineering assistants and senior technicians for the continuation of 1st shift R&D efforts. In addition, I was the lead MEMS engineer for the 2D optical switch program (1st and 2nd shift). The team that spanned three(3) Corning divisions produced the first 8x8 optical waveguide switch with < 8 dB insertion loss at each of 64 cross-connect switches.

Dec 1998 – Nov 2000 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I was a project manager and lead development engineer in charge of developing a dielectrically isolated SOI process that was integrated with a photo-voltaic optically isolated switch and a large die area high voltage BiCDMOS integrated circuits (IC). Since 1998/1999 these two telecom products have run at approximately 5000 wafers per month with >95% and >85% overall yield (including wafer bonding, grind/polish, DRIE, CMP and associtated IC process steps), respectively.

Dec 1997 – Dec 1998 · 1 yr · Beverly, MA and Cambridge, MA

• My responsibilities included (2) programs:
• 1) Project leader and engineer for the development of dielectrically isolated (DI) silicon-on-insultaor (SOI) fabrication process including deep reactive ion etch (DRIE) of Si using STS ASE, low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). Evaluated, procured, installed and engineered all equipment from inception tho development to full production. Substrates where initially used for optically isolated photo-voltaic (PV) switch which was a PV-diode array fabricated into the DI SOI (this device is now also used as an solar energy harvesting chip to power wireless sensors). In addition, this was integrated into a high voltage BiCDMOS integrated circuit chip as well. Both the PV switch and a Line-Card Access Switch (LCAS) for the telecom industry has been in high volume production since 1999.
• 2) I was responsible for the development of a MicroElectroMechnical Systems (MEMS) based micro-relay that was being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the direction of Dr. Martin Schmidt, Dr. Jeffery Lang and Dr. Jo-ey Wong. Our joint goal was to transfer the micro-relay to production at Clare's Wakefield facility.

Jun 1996 – Nov 1997 · 1 yr 5 mos · Nashua, NH

• I was the Dry Chemistry Work Center Leader in charge of all plasma etching and deposition processes for GaAs and InP MMIC and PHEMT chips.
• As part of the GaAs laboratory consolidation team (3 facilities: Sanders, Nashua, NH; Martin Marietta, Syracuse, NY, and Baltimore, Maryland) I re-developed the "slot via" GaAS reactive ion etch (RIE) process for 100 um and 50 um thinned wafers. This was a vertical walled etch process.
• I also worked initially on the photolithography team. I was switched to dry chemistry, but continued to perform RETMAN C layouts for the Ultratech 1500 stepper.

Sep 1994 – May 1996 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Irvine Sensors and IBM Microelectronics Division in Essex Junction, VT were in a strategic partnership developing 3D stacked 80 MB DRAM technology. I worked at the IBM facility side-by-side with IBM employees. We developed the "cube" (54 DRAM die stacked; die-level wiring re-routed to die edge; leads bussed together on side of cube) technology from concept through low volume production. This was the most difficult job I had, yet I learned the most from the IBM team. Significant design for manufacturability skills were gained during my tenure with the Irvine Sensors/ IBM partnership.
• RESPONSIBILITIES: Photolithography engineer. Design for manufacturability (DFM) implemented. Implemented and coordinated IBM's Enhanced Tool Support System (ETSS) in cube manufacturing line for Six-Sigma statistical process control (SPC).
• SPECIAL NOTE: In December 1999, Space Shuttle Servicing Mission 3A replaced reel-to-reel tape recorder units on the Hubble Space Telescope with a next-generation solid-state recorder (SSR) using memory cubes from Irvine Sensors/ IBM. The SSR allowed efficient handling of high-volume data having room for 10 times as much data as the previous one.
• See http://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/servicing_mission_3a/

May 1994 – Aug 1994 · 3 mos

Sep 1992 – May 1994 · 1 yr 8 mos · Burlington, Vermont Area

May 1992 – May 1994 · 2 yrs · Burlington, Vermont Area

• Ph.D. Materials Science (interdisciplinary Mechanical Engineering and Physics) research on novel piezoelectric MEMS-based ultrasonic vibration sensor - a.k.a. Lamb-wave sensor. The intended use was for biomedical applications.
• Anisotropic etching of Si using EDP-etch solution to fabricate 25 mm x 25 mm area, 2 micron think Si membranes with highly doped-Si boron etch-stop layer. Sputter deposited piezoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) thin film directly onto membranes and formed interdigitated Al electrodes on membrane.
• Advisor: Physics Professor Junru Wu, Ph.D.

Sep 1989 – May 1992 · 2 yrs 8 mos · The University of Vermont · On-site

• National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Fellow
• M.S. Materials Science (interdisciplinary Electrical Engineering and Physics) research on silicon dioxide (SiO2) thin films deposited at low temperature (100-375 degrees centigrade) on Si substrates using electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (ECR-PECVD) technique. (2 publications)
• Advisor: Electrical Engineering Professor Walter Varhue, Ph.D.

Mar 1989 – Aug 1989 · 5 mos · Wilton, NH

• Development of a novel ion gun using high density plasma ion source generated by an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) microwave plasma ion source.

Sep 1988 – May 1989 · 8 mos · Keene, NH

• Founded SPS chapter at college.

Jan 1987 – May 1989 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Keene, NH

• Research on thin metallic films deposited under ultra-high vacuum (~10E-10 Torr). Deposited alkali earth metals onto quartz substrates. Using plasma resonance excited by light method (PREL) the optical constants, index of refraction n and the extinction coefficient k as a function of wavelength were determined.
• Five (5) publications, including two (2) talks and three (3) posters presented at American Physical Society (APS) meetings and West Point Academy.
• Advisor: Physics Professor Russell Harkay, Ph.D.