2005 – 2008 (3 yrs) Senior Mechanical Engineer
Photodigm Inc (Dallas area) 
Laser Diode Mfr of Gradient Surface-Emitting and DBR Lasers
- Designer of Submounts, Hermitic packages, & Modules. Near Infrared to 1550 nm
- Responsible for Semiconductor Laser Packaging design
- Worked with Free-space Aspherical Lens and Waveguided Frequency-doubling Crystals
- Designed and built Thermoelectric-cooler based Test Platforms
- Designed Robotics for High-vacuum E-beam Evaporation Chamber
- Designed and Built an Automatic Laser Test Station with Micropositioners and Pneumatics
- Designed Sealed TO-8 and TO-56 Can type of Hermitic Laser Package
2003 – 2005 (2 yrs) Head of Engineering Technology
NanoLign Inc. (Dallas area) 
Nanopositioning Microelectronics Mfr, Optical and RF Devices
- Head of Engineering for a five employee, high-tech, MEMS based, start-up company
- Responsible for all nanotechnology packaging and microelectronic component development
- Primary designer for the company, including solid-modeling and CAD efforts
- Designed all the chip-level, component-level, and module-level packaging
- Worked with miniature free-space RF components (Phase shifters, etc)
- Design support for KU band Satellite-tracking Phased-array Flat-panel Patch Antenna
2002 – 2003 (1 yr) Head of Mechanical Group
Sanmina-SCI Inc. (Dallas area) 
Electronics Contract Mfr, Opto-Electronics, Medical, Datacom
- Optical Module Packaging Expert • Miniaturization, Tiny Free-space optics, Micro-positioning
- Product Development: Components, Modules, and Circuit cards
- Contracting efforts, technical sales, proposal development
- Project planning and cost development • Website designer for Document Control System.
1995 – 2002 (8 yrs) Member of Technical Staff
Alcatel Inc. (Dallas area) 
Fiber Optic Transmission Sys, SONIT, OC-192, WDM, Microwave
- Fiber Optic Components Designer, Microwave Hybrid Designer, Active Alignment of Optics
- Package Designer of 10GB Laser Transmitter and Fiber Optic Receiver Packages
- Ceramic Microcircuit Layout and Design, Microstrip & Coplanar Transmission Lines
- CAD System Administer (AutoCAD), Computer Engineering Services Coordinator
- Mechanical, Thermal, and Optical Analysis
1990 – 1995 (5 yrs) System Engineer
Telephony International Inc. (Dallas area)
Operator Services Systems, Class 5 Switch
- Management Support: System Engineering, Proposals, Staging, and Field Support
- Operations and Production: MPR-II, Material Planning, Purchasing, Inventory
- Project Engineering: Digital and Analog Telecom Board Designer • Software Programmer (C++)
1980 – 1990 (10 yrs) Design Engineer
Texas Instruments (Dallas area) 
Avionics, Electronics, Defense Systems
- System Engineering on Test Technology Design Issues • Built-in-Test Hardware Design
