Designed and developed ultraclean,
high vacuum pumping systems to activate and test metal hydride sorbent
beds to support the fabrication of flight hardware for a Sorption Cryocooler
project.
- Removed contaminants during vacuum
treatments and monitored contamination using residual gas analyzers
- Supported testing of components and materials
using this equipment for closed-cycle Joule-Thomson refrigerators
to cool high-sensitivity detectors to temperatures below 19 K by
the formation of liquid hydrogen.
Engineered hardware for Plasma Vapor Deposition
(PVD) Machines in support of Intel, Motorola and other Semi-conductor
companies.
Developed concept verification tool for a 300
mm Ionized Plasma Vapor Deposition (IPVD) Project.
Solved field service problems and provided
manufacturing support relating to PVD equipment.
Solved supplier’s manufacturing problems
in relation to IPVD and PVD.
Brought together an industry proposal consortium
for spacecraft and spacecraft instrumentation.
Contributed to the NASA New Millennium Program
(NMP), NASA Discovery program, and Planetary Instrument Definition
and Development (PIDDP) proposals.
Developed single photon counting and imaging
device.
Consulting in vacuum technology and electron
and ultraviolet optics.
Design, assembly, and operation of environmental
testing equipment for UV optics related NASA project.
Developed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiment
for research on polymers.
Designed and developed facilities and equipment
for studies of selected electron collisions of atoms and molecules
supporting research and data analysis of flight experimentation data.
Designed and implemented secondary mirror assembly
and control for a 48" Infrared/visible telescope.
Designed and built first ultra-stable magnetically
confined electron collision Vacuum Ultraviolet (UV) source for an
Electron Collisions Processes Laboratory.
Designed and built UV calibration facility
for space related UV optics programs.
Designed and built UV calibration and research
Instrumentation
Cryogenic, Turbomolecular, Molecular Drag,
Diffusion, Ion, Titanium Sublimation, Mechanical (Oil and Dry) Pump
experts.
MEMS manufacturing equipment design and support.
Initiated a project that has resulted in a
successful color comparator device for quality assurance purposes
in the plastics and paints industries.
