Quality Assurance Technician

Robert L. Hall, Jr.

***** ****** ***. ***. * Hawthorne, Ca. 90250

******@*****.*** 424-***-****

EXPERIENCE

PRANALYTICA, Inc., Santa Monica, Ca., September 2010 -

Present

(Contract through Phoenix Engineering)

Laser Electro-Optics Technician

• Build, solder, inspect, setup and troubleshoot Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs).

• Set up and alignment through focusing lens to a Fourier Transform Infrared

Spectroscopy (FTIR) with a HeNe laser obtaining spectrum analysis of QCLs.

• QCL testing using an energy detector and an oscilloscope to measure Power

and Energy Efficiency.

• Cleaned and mounted optics to mounting fixtures with use of screws, drivers,

special in-house tools, torque wrenches, and bonding material.

• Ensured compliance to internal specifications, blueprints/drawings, work

instructions, and test procedures during all phases of research, development

and production.

• Managed daily shared excel status report for upper management.

• Responsible for recording all build and test data, as well as non-conformances

or anomalies during production into the integrated computer-based system.

• Set up and perform (ESS) Environmental Stress Screening or Vibration, Shock

and Temperature Stress Testing of QCL systems.

• Set up and perform scientific temperature measurements of QCLs.

• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to write and update procedures for

research, development and production of QCLs.

• Quality assurance responsibility for lab material usage and records per ISO

9001.

• Completed annual and bi-annual on-the-job certifications for Cleanroom, Electro-

Static Discharge, Foreign Object Debris, Electrical Safety, Laser Safety, and

Ethical training.

• Lab management, organization, ordering of equipment and materials, including

Nitrogen for cleanroom supplies and cryogenic testing.

• Trained technicians on building and testing of QCLs.

• Calibration of QCL Test Stations.

• Lens and Windows Installment of QCL systems.

• Use of microscopes for detailed QCL work.

• Wirebonder operation.

• Seamsealer operation.

• Optics inspection and cleaning.

RAYTHEON SPACE AND AIRBORNE SYSTEMS El Segundo, Ca August 2008 –

September 2010

Laser Electro-Optics Technician, Sr.

• Built, inspected, setup and troubleshot Nd:Yag laser range finders using a Zygo

Interferometer and a HeNe laser.

• Laser testing and alignment through lens using an energy detector and an

oscilloscope to measure and calculate beam divergence, pulse width, power and

noise.

• Cleaned and mounted optics to Laser fixtures with use of screws, drivers,

special in-house tools, torque wrenches, and bonding material.

• Ensured compliance to internal specifications, blueprints/drawings, work

instructions, and test procedures during all phases of Responsible for recording

all build and test data, as well as non-conformances or anomalies during

production into the integrated computer-based systemproduction.

• Performed troubleshooting and conducted repairs on lasers from the field such

as re-alignments and replacing broken seals, optics and other components that

may have been damaged during use.

• Ordered replacement parts when needed.

• Responsible for recording all build and test data, as well as non-conformances

or anomalies during production into the integrated computer-based system.

• Managed daily shared excel status report for upper management.

• Completed annual and bi-annual on-the-job certifications for Cleanroom, Electro-

Static Discharge, Foreign Object Debris, Electrical Safety, Laser Safety, and

Ethical training.

• Responsible for recording all build and test data, as well as non-conformances

or anomalies during production into the integrated computer-based system.

• Recorded Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC'S) daily per OSHA standards.

• Tested laser power supplies and logic cards.

• Performed (ESS) Environmental Stress Screening or Vibration, Shock and

Temperature Stress Testing of laser systems.

• Quality assurance responsibility for lab material usage and records per ISO

9001.

• Trained technicians on building and testing laser systems.

• Coated Lens Installation and alignment.

• Prism Installation and alignment.

• Optics inspection and cleaning.

Center for Applied Technologies (CNM) Albuquerque, NM July

2006 – December 2007

Lab Technician/Tutor (Student Financial Aide Work/Study)

• Responsible for student support and maintenance of lasers, optics, electronics,

computer software and hardware in lab.

• Assisted professors and students with lasers, optics, electronics, computer

software, laboratory equipment and components, lenses, hand tools and

experiments, reports and applied engineering mathematics relative to student

projects, lab experiments and homework.

EDUCATION

Associate of Applied Science Photonics Technology

Associate of Applied Science Electronics Technology

Soldering Certification

(CNM) Central New Mexico Community College Albuquerque, N.M.,

2005 – 2008

PROJECTS

Laser Holography

Successfully designed and setup three HeNe Laser holography systems that produced

three functional holograms. Optical and laser alignment, timing and angles of

interference patterns of laser light, positioning of mirrors and beam splitters, limiting

destructive interference in lab by reducing noise and air flow, mixing of chemicals to

produce holography plates were all used in this final project.

Electronic Encoder

Successfully designed, built and modified a numeric to brail encoder using digital

circuits, numeric keypads and circuit boards.

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