Project Manager Management

Francis Karwacki

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City: Easton

State: MD

Zip: 21601

Country: USA

Phone: 410-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $115,000

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FRANCIS A. KARWACKI, PH.D.

14 North Aurora Street

Easton, Maryland 21601

Phone:410-***-****

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RESEARCH PHYSICIST/ PROGRAM MANAGER

Results-driven and self-directed Research Physicist with demonstrated success at performing research, analyzing material, evaluating risk and developing strategies. Skilled at managing programs, defining goals and tasks, assigning responsibilities, monitoring performance, and conducting review meetings to insure adherence to schedules and budget requirements. Possess Top Secret clearance.

Strategic Planning Project Management Presentations White Paper / Proposal Writing Theoretical and Analytical Analysis Scheduling Team Leadership / Motivation Technical Writing

Client Relations Government Contracting Procurement / Purchasing Cost Reduction Risk Management Experience with pulsed and CW lasers Quantum Characterization Experimental Design and Control Transmission of Radiation through Materials and the Atmosphere Design of Semiconductor Optical Structures Illuminator Design Theoretical, Numerical Analysis and Design of Optical Systems Diffractive Optics Development of an optical detection system for explosive detection DIAL

Areas of Research

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), SQUIDS Superconducting Materials Semiconductor Physics Related to Quantum Wells Hole Burning for Quantum Computing Memories and QUBIT Storage and Readout Fiber Optics Optics Lasers Vibrational & Translational Energy Levels of Molecules

Equipment & Processes

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) X ray Diffraction Dewar and Rotational Probes Arc Melting DC and RF SQUIDs High Temperature Ovens Vacuum Chambers Eximer, Neodymium: Yag, CO2, Dye, Argon Ion, and Semiconductor lasers Patterning of Thin Films FTIR Materials Preparation: Ceramics, Metals Semiconductor/Superconducting Materials Thin Film Deposition By: Laser Ablation, Evaporation, Sputtering

Computers

Laboratory Computer System Manager

Generated system and developed software for operation/control of laboratories equipment and data processing

Programming experience in Fortran, Fortran 77, Basic, Visual Basic, C and Assembly Languages, PCs with Windows 2000, XP, and 7 Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Office Perfect, Maple, Mathamatica, Mathcad, Mat Lab,

Sigma Plot, Graphical Analysis, Logger Pro, AutoCAD, Lab View, and Wavetrain

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NAVMAR APPLIED SCIENCE CORPORATION, Chestertown, Maryland 01/2004 - Present

Chief Scientist

As chief scientist, researcher, and consultant, provided direction and strategic planning for in-house and external projects. Formulated design concepts and performed theoretical and analytical analysis. Wrote numerous white papers, SBIR and BAA responses to funding agencies, and presented experimental and analytical data to numerous potential sponsors for project funding consideration. As DARPA Consultant, provided technical assistance and direction for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope program. Consultant to Office of Naval Research Consultant, providing technical assistance to program on multi-laser non-thermal growth of diamond.

Accomplishments:

* Developed concept for a pulsed heterodyne DIAL detection system for the 1.5 to 4.5 micron region. Developed algorithms to predict its detection capability as a function of the physical parameters and propagation factors of the system. Measured the absorption curve profiles for low vapor energetic materials as a function of time and temperature. Used data to determine the semiconducting laser need for the system.

* Developed a concept for an explosive detection system for penetrating and detecting explosive residue through people's clothing. Concept used femo-second pulses, which are separated into wavelength components. The wavelengths are then modulated in either phase and /or amplitude in order to allow for penetration into the clothing of those wavelengths, which provide a return signal and do not contribute to background noise.

* Developed concept for a minimally intrusive ovarian cancer detection system, which uses a laser to detect the increased concentration of chemical markers due to the presence of cancer on the ovaries.

* Determined energy levels of energetic molecules in order to determine absorbance wavelengths for laser detection

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, Patuxent River, Maryland 10/1996 - 09/2004

Physicist

Technical leader and supervisor, providing direction and strategic planning to ensure that program achieved its objectives and remained within budgetary requirements. Directly supervised employees; delivered performance reviews to upper management and sponsors; and independently directed contractors to ensure that goals were met and product performance was improved.

Accomplishments:

* P-3 Update Program Project Manager: Oversaw daily management and operation of CURTIS program, for development of a real time video streaming of in-theater tactical information to Special Forces.

* UAV Program Manager: Managed development of special projects for UAV's. Conducted weekly updates at contractor's facility to ensure that various UAV projects were being delivered on time and within budget.

* Atom Trapping for Quantum Computing: Modified control algorithms for positioning of atoms in free space between confinement fields. Result was the confinement of the atom in space at a pre-designated location.

* Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser: Investigated use of semiconductor quantum wells to tune a laser cavity to various wavelengths. Designed and experimentally evaluated structures for use as part of a distributive Bragg mirror for the tuning of the laser cavity. Experimental results showed a high degree of phase and amplitude modulation with the applied electric field.

* Quantum Well Mirror Research: Performed investigations into electro-optic effects in quantum well superlattices for use in laser cavities as frequency modulation devices. Also conducted research on use of quantum well structures to position modulate two counter-propagating laser beams in cavity of a Ring Laser Gyroscope. Analysis of the structure showed it had the ability to move the HeNe laser beams across the mirror surface to help eliminate backscatter and, hence, lock-in.

* IR Detection of Cancer Tumors (Research): Investigated growth of cancer tumors on mice to determine the feasibility of using state-of-the-art IR detectors to identify tumors and to monitor their rate of growth as a function of time.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 09/1992 - 05/2004

Adjunct Professor of Physics

Served as project manager and thesis advisor to a graduate student and undergraduate students who worked on the quantum well project and participated in hole burning research for quantum computing applications. Also taught problem solving courses with various levels of difficulty to undergraduate students.

Accomplishments:

* Completed theoretical analysis of a quantum well structure's design; had structure fabricated by MBE; experimentally evaluated the structure; and published the results. This was done for normal and 30 degree incident angles structures. Structures had caused large phase and amplitude changes on laser radiation at 6328 nm.

* Worked on hole burning for quantum well computing memories and storage centers for qubits. Burned a significant number of holes in an Eu+ doped crystal. Structure analysis showed that holes remained active for long periods of time and use as a storage device was possible.

* Developed high temperature superconducting material for application to sensor development. Developed and processed samples of high temperature superconductors for measurement by a SQUID to determine the decay time of persistent currents and its usefulness a sensor, superconductivity in heavy fermions.

* Fabricated a heavy fermion metal to determine if the existence of a surface current was present if you rotated the material. Determined that a heavy fermion system behaved as other superconductors and did develop surface currents when rotated. Published the results in peer-reviewed journal.

Career Note: Previously employed as Physicist for Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance. Details upon request.

EDUCATION / PRESENTATION

Doctor of Philosophy - Physics - Stevens Institute of Technology - Hoboken, New Jersey

Master of Science and Graduate Studies - Physics & EE Courses - Drexel University - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Graduate Studies - Physics - Lehigh University - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science - Physics - LaSalle University - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Associates Degree - Electronics - Community College of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference Chairman/Coordinator - Vail, Colorado - 1992

Inertial Sensors, An Application of the Physics of Superconductors

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