Engineer Design
Resume:
Reinald U. Gerhardt
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Well-rounded physicist with expertise in optics, electronics and material science. Over 10
years experience in the design and fabrication of PLC-based optical components and
modules for DWDM Networks.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Manager Electronics&Automation, Enablence, Wilmington, MA 09/2008 – present
Design and implementation of electronics hardware and firmware for 100G
TOSA/ROSA production testing
Design and implementation of 10+ new module products
Transfer of new products from prototype to volume production
Technical support for volume production of both modules and components
Manage prototype and volume production of PCB assemblies
MTS, Opvista Inc., Milpitas, CA 03/2008 – 09/2008
Hardware design of line-side board for 40G line card.
Sr. Scientist, DuPont Photonic Technologies, Wilmington, MA 09/2002 –02/ 2008
Sr. Optical Engineer, Telephotonics Inc., Wilmington, MA 10/2000 – 08/2002
Lead designer of DuPont’s 40 channel ROADM, VDMUX and VOA-PD modules:
o Design and layout of analog and digital electronic hardware.
o Firmware architecture and implementation.
o Definition and implementation of hardware test and calibration process.
o Design and layout of host adapters for interface testing.
o Implementation of interface test software.
o Provide optical, electrical and functional specifications.
Lead test engineer for module products:
o Development of test and calibration methodologies.
o Architecture and implementation of test stations for production.
o Design and implementation of test software.
o Trouble shooting and failure mode analysis.
Design and implementation of test and burn-in electronics hard- and firmware for all
of DuPont’s optical component products.
Laser micro machining of polymer-based PLC devices:
o Responsible for complete process development from idea to proof of concept to
volume production.
o Development of software tools to automatically generate CNC programs from
CAD drawings for rapid prototyping.
o Provided support to operations: Continuous improvement of machining patterns
for higher throughput and better performance.
Accelerated life testing of thermo-optic devices (Telcordia).
Design and implementation of a high-throughput PDL test system for volume
production of VOA array components.
Design of photolithographic masks for the fabrication of polymer-based Planar
Lightwave Circuits.
Thermal modeling of thin-film heaters in thermo-optic applications.
Development of new concepts for integrated optical isolators and circulators.
Co-author of multiple patents.
Universität Osnabrück, Germany 1993 – 2000
Demonstration of the first channel waveguide laser in epitaxial Nd:GGG films with
low threshold and high slope efficiency.
Implementation of a fast FD-modesolver for active waveguides.
Achieved first-time epitaxial growth of ultra-low loss iron garnet films for optical
applications.
Design and implementation of techniques for the characterization of magneto-optic
waveguides (for the development of a waveguide-based optical isolator).
EDUCATION:
PhD in Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Universität Osnabrück, Germany 2002
Key words:
ARM, Assembly, C/C++, DSP, Failure-Mode Analysis, Fiber-Optics, FPGA,
Hermetic Packaging, High-Speed, Labview, Matlab, Material Science, Mixed-
Signal, OrCAD, PADS/DxDesigner, Perl, PLC-Design, RTOS, VHDL
WORK STATUS: Permanent Resident
List of publications on request
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