Career Information

Occupation:

Physicist/Engineer with specialty in Electro-optics, lasers, pointing and tracking.  Currently:  at Boeing-SVS in Albuquerque 

This information provided primarily to support my claims about "bad science" above.

These are companies that I have worked for: (yes, I worked professionally for UAH after I graduated in 1976)



Some of the things I have done are

  • design a beam control system for the Space Based Laser Readiness Demonstrator, a space flight high energy laser that will prove the concept of space based defense against theater and strategic missiles by destroying a missile in flight by a shot from space
  • develop an automated system to measure absorption coefficients in low loss infrared window materials
  • help develop an automated gain measurement system for high energy chemical lasers
  • developed several computer codes:
    • HEL engagement analysis to analyze time to negate a target, such as an enemy rocket
    • wave optics propagation
    • geometric optics ray trace analysis
    • segmented optics and phased array optics analysis codes
    • document database code
    • data acquisition and analysis of medical xray calibration data
    • codes for above automated systems
    • code for piston loop control on the phased array concept study brassboard
    • code to draw perspective hidden line renderings of houses based on blueprint drawing input
  • develop a test and integration plan for THEL, the TRW tactical high energy laser system, being developed for the Israeli Ministry of Defense
  • developed a Fast Steering Mirror on United Technologies IR&D funds
Some professional interests
  • HEL and optical diagnostics
  • far field camera analysis
  • wavefront sensors and analysis
  • small signal gain mapping

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Last updated 10/16/08 .