Elizabeth Anne Nevis

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              Addendum: Engineering Background in Detail

 

ENGINEERING EMPLOYMENT HISTORY_________________________________________________

 

 NeoPhotonics / NanoGram Corp.                       Fremont, CA                                                2000 – 2002

Manager, Photonics Research & Development

·             Recruited and managed optical physicists and engineers for new department

·             Interpreted regulations and industry standards for telecommunication products, clean-rooms, and laser safety

·             Assisted with 3 multi-disciplinary patent applications, including co-inventor interviews

·             Designed and supervised Class 10,000/1,000 clean-room optics lab

·             Evaluated and specified simulation software for wave-optic design and analysis

·             Planned design and test projects for planar integrated optics created by nano-particle deposition

·             Designed improvements and specified characterization tools for laser-based nano-particle creation and deposition systems

 

Agilent Technologies/Hewlett-Packard                Santa Clara, CA                                            1997 – 2000

Optical Research & Development Engineer

·             Designed optics for first fiber‑delivered heterodyne laser source for high speed, sub-nanometer‑resolution position‑sensing

      interferometry, now in production

·             Integrated prototypes and collected technical feedback at European customer site

·             Breadboarded and tested dual-wavelength position-sensing interferometer for correction of atmospherically-generated errors

·             Discovered previously unknown properties of polarizing beamsplitter coatings that enhanced their separation properties and

      reduced an error source in heterodyne laser metrology systems

·             Developed and handed off manufacturing tests for laser tubes, acousto‑optic modulators, polarization‑maintaining fibers,

      crystalline polarizing optics, and miniature aspheric lenses

·             Collaborated with in‑house optical fabrication and coating shops to build new components

·             4 patent disclosures; 1 patent granted, 3 applications in process

·             Co-op student mentor and project organizer

 

Morningstar Technologies                                   Long Beach, CA                                            1994 – 1997

President / Chief Scientist

·             Founded and operated profitable solo consultancy with nationwide client base

·             Completed major projects in long‑path absorbance spectroscopy (system now in production), fluorescence detection, telecom

      laser sources, industrial laser systems

·             Wrote custom analysis software, provided designs, located and screened suppliers, recommended and performed experiments

      and component/subsystem/system tests

·             Provided trade‑show presence, gave seminars on optics and project management, recruited optical specialists for direct

      employment by clients

 

Beckman Instruments                                         Fullerton, CA                                               1992 – 1994

Senior Optical Engineer, Design Team Lead

·             Designed excitation and detection optics for laser-induced fluorescence detection in capillary electrophoresis

·             Helped move capillary electrophoresis product line from Northern to Southern California

·             Led opto-mechanical design team to develop higher-sensitivity UV absorbance detection system for capillary electrophoresis

·             Invention disclosed:  Multiple‑pass optics for improving small‑sample absorbance measurement sensitivity

 

XMR, Inc.                                                              Santa Clara, CA                                               1989 – 1991

Senior Optical Engineer     

·             Developed excimer-laser-based micromachiner for semiconductor processing; designed improvements over previous product

      including full-color imaging, lower-cost optics, more stable optomechanics, and faster assembly

·             Reduced field failures in high-end UV imaging lenses by 90% by identifying and correcting flaws in vendor’s processes

·             Filed invention disclosure for intracavity beam homogenizer

     

Laserscope                                                            Santa Clara, CA                                               1986 – 1989

Senior Optical Engineer

·             Designed and developed fiber-delivery, micromanipulation, and viewing accessories for two-wavelength solid-state surgical

      lasers with intracavity frequency doubling

·             Avoided costly product recall by tracing almost all field failures to field-repairable problems

·             Developed optical component test processes that accelerated manufacturing

 

Cooper Lasersonics                                              Santa Clara, CA                                           1986

Optical Engineer

·             Supervised move of CO2 medical laser product line from Massachusetts to California

·             Stopped performance degradation in laser cooling systems by chemically analyzing used coolant to identify contaminants

      and their sources

 

Greyhawk Systems                                               Milpitas, CA                                                      1985-1986

Optical Engineer

·             U.S. Patent awarded: method for variable-linewidth, variable-grayscale erasable laser marking on thermally-sensitive

      liquid-crystal cells:

·             Developed optics and control software for 48" 256-color interactive computer display based on image projection from

      laser-addressed liquid crystals

 

Coherent Medical Division                                    Palo Alto, CA                                                    1984-1985

Optical Engineer

·             Investigated parameters of excimer-laser photoablation in plastics and biological tissue

·             Discovered “photoablation-like” effect of clipped-pulse CO2 laser light in corneal tissue

·             Evaluated polycrystalline fibers for multi-watt mid-infrared transmission

·             Developed polishing method for medical-laser fibers that reduced manufacturing scrap by 80%

 

Rockwell International                                         Albuquerque, NM                              1982-1984

Member of Technical Staff

·             Detected and analyzed anomalies in the deflection of laser beams by diffraction gratings

·             Evaluated mainframe-based simulation code for polarization-sensitive diffraction

·             Principal investigator on foreign-technology project with special-access clearance

 

 

Publications and Major Presentations____________________________________________

 

Software Symbiosis: Incorporating Measured Data for Accurate Design Modeling

      (poster paper) Hewlett-Packard Professional and Technical Women’s Conference, 1998

Evaluating Suitability of R&D Acceleration Programs

      Morningstar Technologies seminar, 1995

Opto-Electronic Noise in Chemical Analysis Systems: Sources and Solutions

      Morningstar Technologies seminar, 1995

Don’t Fear the Asphere

      Beckman Instruments Technical Summit, 1993

Excimer Laser Damage Patterns in UV Optical Fibers

      (poster paper), NBS Boulder Damage Symposium, 1984

Wide-Angle Position Anomalies: An Apparent Violation of the Grating Equation

      Optical Society of America Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1984

 

Patents, U.S.______________________________________________________________________

 

7,164,818, Integrated gradient index lenses

7,027,223, Optical element that is adjustable for optimizing extinction ratios

7,009,709, Active control of two orthogonal polarizations for heterodyne beam delivery

6,961,130, Heterodyne beam delivery with active control of two orthogonal polarizations

6,961,129, Active control of two orthogonal polarizations for heterodyne interferometry

6,952,504, Three dimensional engineering of planar optical structures

6,903,819, Alignment method for optimizing extinction ratios of coated polarizing beam splitters

6,900,899, Interferometers with coated polarizing beam splitters that are rotated to optimize extinction ratios                  

6,748,127, Transmission of orthogonal circular polarizations on a fiber

6,222,679, Mechanically simplified, high resolution, optical focusing and steering apparatus

4,799,770, Liquid crystal cell for image projections and method of operating same