Professional Experience Fiber Optic

Dr Shelly John Mechery, Ph.D.

**** ******** ******, **** *****, CA 91307

EMAIL: ac16oa@r.postjobfree.com & ac16oa@r.postjobfree.com

Phone (cell): 352-***-****

(Home): 310-***-****

Citizenship: USA

SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Won several US federal government SBIR/STTR projects and successfully managed them resulting in few million dollars as contract revenue.

Developed sophisticated sensors for space, defense and homeland security applications.

Hands-on experience working with different laser subsystems, fiber optic hardware, fiber optic components, sensor subsystems, and optical assemblies. Experience in optical component and system design, analysis, and integration.

Extensive experience in optical instrumentation, visible and infrared optical sensors, optical imaging, multispectral and hyperspectral imaging sensors for ground, airborne and space applications, free space optical systems, optical spectroscopy, and chemical/biological detection systems.

Expertise in physical and geometric optics, and polarization. Experience in inertial devices, fiber optic gyroscopes, and micro-ring resonators (micro-toroids and microspheres).

Experience in visible and infrared camera systems, low-light camera systems, field-of-view and spatial resolution analysis. designed highly miniature spectrometer.

Independently setting up and performing experiments with lasers and amplifiers, free-space optics, sensors, and typical optical diagnostics setups as well as alignment techniques.

Experience with optical modeling software packages like Zemax.

Proven record of leadership, including managing technical staffs, to achieve project deliverables.

Authored white papers, proposals and make presentations to internal staff, executive management, existing customers. Conducted experimental researches, wrote reports and several research articles.

Develop hardware, lead design & prototyping efforts. Led a cross functional team of scientists and engineers for the successful completion of projects.

Holds US and International patents.

professional experience

Physical Optics Corporation – Torrance, ca

Research Scientist (2012 – 2017)

Won several US federal government SBIR/STTR projects and successfully managed SBIR projects and government contracts as well as supporting the strategic growth of the company business. Developed creative solutions to the Phase I & II program challenges and technical issues. Follow through and monitor technical, schedule and cost performance for assigned programs. As a principal investigator (PI) served as primary technical point of contact between the customers and the company.

-Successfully completed several SBIR/STTR projects.

-Delivered technical reports and functional prototypes.

-I have proven record of leadership, including managing technical staffs, to achieve project deliverables.

-Designed distinct types of optical sensors, biosensors, microring resonators (microtoroids and microspheres), nanomaterials, chemical sensors, Long Period Grating (LPG) Sensors, LiDAR systems

-Developed optical systems both free space and fiber coupled, micro LADAR system, ultra-miniature spectrometer, imaging sensors.

-Several years of experience with lasers, optics, sensors, microfluidics, nanomaterials and typical optical diagnostics setups as well as alignment techniques.

-Led a cross functional team of scientists and engineers for the successful completion of projects.

Won the Following Govt. Contracts as Principal Investigator (PI)

1.DOD (Navy) SBIR Phase I (Grant No. N00024-17-P-4506) Year 2016-2017

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Amount: $79,995 + $69,998 (option period)

2.(DOD) Air Force SBIR Phase I (Grant No. FA8501-14-P-0007)

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Amount: $150,000

3.(DOD) MDA SBIR Phase I (Grant No. HQ0147-13-C-7514)

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Amount: $100,000 + $50,000 (option period)

4.NIH SBIR Phase I Contract (NCATS Reference No. N43TR-15-0010) Year 2015-2016

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Amount: $224,995

5.NIH SBIR Phase I (Grant No. 1R43CA192394-01A1) Year 2014-2015

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Amount: $149,999

Waddan Systems LLC – Santa Clarita, ca

Research Scientist (2009 – 2012)

Responsible for the SBIR projects and bringing new research and development programs on fiber optic sensors and silicon photonics. Led and managed a cross-functional team to establish design concepts, criteria and engineering efforts for product development, manufacturing, integration and testing.

Delivered technical reports and functional prototypes.

Designed distinct types of optical sensors, fiber optic gyroscopes (FOG), inertial sensors, frequency modulated (FM) laser sensor for methane detection, sol-gel based waveguides, LiNbO3 waveguides, chemical sensors.

Developed optical systems both free space and fiber coupled.

Won the Following Govt. Contracts as Principal Investigator (PI)

1.NIH SBIR Phase I (Grant No. 1R43OH010010-01)

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Amount: $150,000

Innosense llc – Torrance, ca

Research Scientist & Team Leader (2006 – 2009)

Was responsible for several SBIR projects and bringing new research and development programs through Government SBIR/STTR funding. Design and developed distinct types of optical sensors, fiber optic sensors, fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, Long Period Grating (LPG) Sensors, LiDAR systems, free space optical systems, biosensors, sensors for chemical warfare agent (CWA) detection, nanomaterials, chemical sensors, gas sensors, sol-gel based sensors, microfluidics. Led and managed a cross-functional team to establish design concepts, criteria and engineering efforts for product development, manufacturing, integration and testing. Developed creative solutions to the Phase I & II program challenges and technical issues. As a project director, successfully led NIH fast track program under Counter Measures Against Chemical Threat (Counter ACT)

Led successfully the following Phase I projects

Delivered Phase II prototypes and technical reports

Won the Following Govt. Contracts as Principal Investigator (PI) & co PI

1.NASA STTR Phase I (NASA Grant No. NNX08CD51P)

Role: Principal Investigator

Amount: $100K

2.NASA STTR Phase II

Amount: $599,999

3.NIH Fast Track Phase I & II under Counter Measures Against Chemical Threat (Counter ACT) (NIH Grant No.5U44NS) –

Role: Project Director

Amount: $1.5 Million

4.DOE SBIR Phase II (DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-06ER84541)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Amount: $750K

5.NASA SBIR Phase I (NASA Grant No. NNX09CE18P)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Additional professional experience

1.Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Florida – Gainesville, FL

2.Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Clean Energy Technology (ICET), Mississippi State University – Starkville, MS

3.Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) – Singapore

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Photonics

Cochin University of Science and Technology – Cochin, India

Master of Science (M.Sc.) –Physics

University of Calicut – Kerala, India

patents

1.US Patent - US 7,239,766 B2 ‘Optical sensing elements for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas detection, a sol-gel method for making the sensing elements and fiber optic sensors incorporating nitrogen dioxide gas optical sensing elements’

2.US Patent - Serial No. 10/510043 ‘Fiber optic bio-sensor’

3.US Patent - Serial No. 60/725023 ‘Portable materials and methods for ultrasensitive detection of pathogen and bioparticles’. Publication No. US-200*-*******-A1

4.International Patent – WO 03/083454 A1‘Fiber optic bio-sensor’

5.Singapore Patent - Application No. 200201691-3 ‘Fiber optic bio-sensor’

Publications

Over 20 Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

Book Chapter: ‘Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors’ Richard Thomson (Ed.), CRC (December 16, 2005). Chapter 4. Molecular Beacon DNA probes based Fluorescence Bio-sensing, Gang Yao, M Shelly John, Weihong Tan pp. 67-92

Research Features in

Nature: Research Highlights 431, 923 (October 21, 2004)

Chemical & Engineering News: Vol. 82, No. 42, p 46 (October 18, 2004)

Scientific American: News October 12, 2004

American Chemical Society: News Analytical Currents December 1, 2004, 423 A

NewScientist October 11, 2004

Additional information

Reviewer of NIH (NIDCR) R01, R21 Grant Applications

Invited to review NIH (NIDCR) Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) to review a total of 20 applications received in response to RFA-DE-17-004, R01 and RFA-DE-17-005, R21 “Biosensors in the Oral Cavity”.

Reviewer of NIH/CSR (IMST) ZRG IMST-B 12B, Small Business Instrumentation, Environmental, and Occupational Safety. Invited to review NIH SBIR/STTR Phase IIE, Fast Track Phase II&I, Phase II, and Phase I proposals.

Reviewer of the following journals

1.Analytical Chemistry

2.Analytica Chimica Acta

3.Optical Engineering

4.Optics and Lasers in Engineering

5.Asian Journal of Physics

Experience in optical component and system design, analysis, and integration

imaging, illumination, radiometry and photometry, physical and geometric optics, and polarization

General knowledge of optical/optoelectronic materials (substrates, coatings, composites) that meet performance requirements

Experience with optical metrology tools required for evaluation and alignment of optical systems

Experience with optical modeling software packages like Zemax,

Experience with integration and performance analysis of class 4 laser systems

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