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Education

 

BS – Electrical Engineering, June 1973.  Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

MS – Electrical Engineering, June 1975 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

PhD – Electrical Engineering, June 1980, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. PhD Thesis Title: Magnetic domain wall dynamics in the presence of an in-plane field. 

 

Work History

 

Chief Scientist - ASRC Federal Space and Defense - 9/2014 - present

Support NASA on space programs including WFIRST and CrIS, support NASA in the areas of detectors, focal plane arrays and related technologies

 

Chief Operating Officer - Sensor Creations, Inc - 2/2016 - present

Support the running of the company, market/capture/manage programs in the military, industrial, and commercial areas

 

Vice President & General Manager – Teledyne Optimum Optical Systems – 6/2010-3/2014

Manage acquired company that develops, designs, manufactures, tests and delivers custom, high performance optomechanical assemblies; miniaturization, gimbal insertion are key; in full production for the Army Kiowa Helicopter program; support Teledyne Imaging Sensors division when needed including camera strategy.  Align visible and infrared cameras with optics.

 

Vice President – EO/IR Development – Teledyne Technologies – 6/2010 – 3/2014

Work with Teledyne CEO, CTO, and Corporate Development VP on the Teledyne EO/IR Strategy, M&As; more than 100 companies looked at, direct access to CEO of Teledyne on seeds for building a Teledyne Digital Imaging segment (now expected to be >$1B), negotiated with several company CEOs directly, traveled extensively to look at companies including ones in Europe

 

Board of Directors – Optical Alchemy 3/2010 – 3/2012

New start-up for small gimbal development; Teledyne had minority share.

 

Vice President Strategic Marketing Initiatives – Teledyne Imaging Sensors 9/2009 – 6/2010

Provide Strategic Marketing support to all segments of TIS, develop growth strategy for TIS

 

Vice President & General Manager – Teledyne Imaging Sensors and Judson Technologies 3/2008-9/2009

Continue to manage and grow Imaging Sensors and Judson; total sales were on the order of $90M in 2008.  

 

Vice President – Teledyne Imaging Sensors 9/2006- 3/2008

Continue the significant growth of Imaging similar to above, sales were above $70M with double digit net IBTs, M&A activities start

 

Teledyne acquires Rockwell Scientific and Imaging on 9/2006

 

Vice President, Imaging Sensors, Rockwell Science Center –                              5/2002 – 9/2006

Continued to expand the Imaging Division through significant and RSC-wide unprecedented increase of the sales, profits and awards.  Expanded the activities to be the best high-end sensor and subsystem supplier in the world for infrared and visible imagers.  Implemented an organizational structure such that program office, marketing, detector, and subsystem level activities were well defined and each headed by highly competent Directors and Managers.  The Imaging Division was set up in a way that it could be an independently viable organization with respectable financials in the open market.  Climbing up the food chain strategy was implemented where electronics, packaging, and other higher level activities have become common place in the programs captured rather than just detectors.  Several programs of national importance (JWST, BTB, DBFM, WFC3, Deep Impact…) were won and executed.  Presently there are several working HgCdTe sensors in space, which were fabricated by Imaging.  Continued the marketing activities expensively.  The Thin Film Optics activity was added to the Imaging Division in 2005 and increased future business is expected in the area of Aircrew Laser Eye Protection (ALEP).  The CMOS group was established as a world leader in the design of military and commercial CMOS chips.  Altasens was spun-off from Imaging and RSC as an independent successful commercial CMOS company.  Two state-of-art buildings house the Imaging division with about 140 technical people and additional support staff.  Imaging Division sales volume of ~$61M with ~double digit gross margins.  Growth of Imaging continued with high CAGR and high profit margins.

 

Executive Director, Imaging, Rockwell Science Center –                                     6/2001 – 5/2002

Established MBE as the prime materials growth technology over LPE.  Continued to move towards a production organization through capture of relevant programs.  Increased the sales in the astronomy business with a move towards large space programs.  Cultivated flexible technologies such as advanced hybridization, advanced CMOS, HgCdTe/Sapphire, heterostructure HgCdTe MBE, and hybrid visible silicon imagers (HyViSI), that has given RSC a competitive approach to essentially all customer needs in high performance imaging.  Continue to market extensively. Growth of Imaging continued with high CAGR.

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Director, Imaging, Rockwell Science Center –                                                        6/1999 – 6/2001
Expand the Molecular Beam Epitaxy HgCdTe efforts for highest detector performance. Continued to organize the Imaging activities for future production and higher level integration.  Used commercial markets synergistically with development of visible and IR technology for the government to give RSC a broad business base in both military and commercial infrared.  Market extensively.

 

Assistant Director, Electronic Devices Laboratory and Imaging, Rockwell Science Center –     6/1996 – 6/1999
Managed the overall infrared FPA activities of Rockwell as a part of the EDL.  Respond to systems and subsystems level requests from the parent company.  Manage all aspects from materials growth through FPA testing and delivery.  Lead the development of 2048x2048 FPAs – first in the industry.  Market extensively.

 

Manager, Infrared Focal Plane Arrays, Rockwell Science Center –                               3/1986 – 6/1996
Manage the infrared imaging FPA test group for electro-optically testing advanced FPAs, interfacing with the customer, marketing new concepts and programs.  Lead the development of large area array FPAs with formats of 256x256, 640x480, and 1024x1024 FPAs – firsts in the industry.  Establish astronomy as a business area for RSC with good sales and margins.  Market for program capture extensively.  Manage several programs.

 

Member of Technical Staff, Infrared Imaging, Rockwell Science Center –                  3/1981 – 3/1986
Test HgCdTe detectors electro-optically including quantum efficiency, dark current and noise, construct and set up new test equipment.  Lead the development of 32x32, 64x64 and 128x128 FPAs.  Manage several programs.

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Rockwell International Bubble Memory Products, Anaheim CA – 9/1979 – 3/1981

Member of Technical Staff,  Device Specialist for the 1 Mbit Bubble Memory Program

 

Work Highlights include:

- Over 60 publications, several invited papers in various conferences including MSS, SPIE, CLEO and others

- Several session chairmanships of various conferences including MSS and SPIE.

- Played a major leadership role in the development of 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, 256x256, 1024x1024, 2048x2048 and 4096x4096 FPAs

- Played a leadership role in sending into space many two-dim HgCdTe FPAs, military and non-military

- Played a leadership role in establishing a world-class CMOS group at RSC.

- The Altasens spinoff was originally from the Imaging division

- Played a key role in the technology transfer of the 256x256 detector array production from the Science Center to Electro-Optical Center, Rockwell International in Anaheim, CA.  Was physically present at the Anaheim site, inside the cleanroom for months.

- Filled up the first building (2001 opening) in Camarillo with people after an initial worry of business turndown, a new building opened in June 2005 in Camarillo and both buildings eventually filled up.

- Record sales, profits and backlog during tenure

- Played a role in establishing the Teledyne Imaging business segment