Product Development Manager
Resume:
Lou Bintz
**** ** ***** ** ***** WA *****
**********@*****.***
Professional Summary
Extensive professional experience in a variety of engineering and business development activities involving power laser diodes, HDTV CRT systems, optical sensors, electro-optic modulators, Laser range finders, and OLED devices.
Technical management experience including:
Head of Engineering & Product Development for LightWave Logic.
Lumera founding member & Principal Investigator USAF BAA Lumera government contract
Group Leader of image quality and electron deflection unit consumer product production and testing for Philips Display USA & North America
Engineering Manager clean room process development at Nlight Photonics
Strong experience in six sigma based lean manufacturing methodologies & management of high volume production environments. Many years of hands-on expertise in clean room and laser based optical system development. Awarded multiple patents in the design and fabrication of coherent optical systems.
Experience
2013- 2015 Lightwave Logic Inc., Longmont, CO
Manager & VP of Engineering & Product Development
Led build-out and process definition for creation of corporate class 100 clean room facilities.
Created and ran a prototype 50ghz bandwidth electro-optic polymer modulator production process including full clean room travelers and test protocols
Led a world class team of chemists synthesizing new and proprietary electro-optic material systems for commercialization of potentially terabit communication systems.
Instituted dual source and fully traceable supply chain systems and corresponding real time master database correlating material test performance to device performance results.
Re-engineered and ran the optical testing lab operations for electro-optical testing of proprietary materials and devices. This resulted in an immediate performance feedback loop allowing rapid modification and enhancement of device and material performance characteristics
Organized, correlated performance data and created summary roadmaps for a 2-year multi-site investigation into hybrid silicon nano-photonic coherent optical devices.
2008-2013 nLight Corp, Vancouver, WA
Engineering Manager Process Development
Hands on management of a team of laser diode packaging experts, individual contributor for various clean room based product development activities including gold-tin solder and lead tin solder techniques for heat sinking high power InP and GaAs laser diode assemblies.
Took the process development team through a full Green belt/Black belt EIT course. Completed all course work and drove >150K cost improvement on legacy product line.
Continuous improvement activities included qualifying and installing new capital equipment, focused a tight integration between the process development team and the running production floor environment resulting in reduced cycle times and 20% improved first time yields
Drove M203 range finder based laser component program through a gate based product development business cycle. Qualified new vendors, identified, analyzed and eliminated significant cost of poor quality issues in the legacy supply chain,
Transferred key technologies from the advanced technology group to the vertically integrated manufacturing team.
2000 - 2007 Lumera Corp., Bothell, WA
Sr. Researcher, Future Technology and Products
Key team member in the growth process from start-up to publicly traded Corporation.
Designed and patented new electro-optic polymer modulators, created new RF electrode designs and DRIE-ICP fabrication techniques, specified and led the construction of a class 100 clean room.
Instituted state of the art multi-layer Si wafer based clean room lithography, thin film low-k dielectric coating, DRIE-ICP etching, and sputter metallization fully documented fabrication processes.
Created and ran guided wave optic simulations in both R-SOFT Beam Prop and Fimmwave analysis packages. Designed testing protocols, procured test equipment, set test methodologies and drove testing of these novel and patented electro-optic modulators
Led sourcing, procurement, installation and qualification of custom designed DRIE-ICP and metallization equipment. Built a new guided wave optic high speed test lab and instituted fully traceable material and device performance corporate information tracking systems.
As Principal investigator, proposed, budgeted and managed an Air Force BAA: “Ultra linear Directional Coupler Based on High Performance Electro-optic Polymers”. Ensured on time completion and appropriate corporate resource allocation, issued summary interim performance reports and led multiple face to face customer presentations with AFRL-SNDP
1998 - 2000 Philips Display Components, Eindhoven, Netherlands & Ann Arbor, Michigan
Technical Lead 32V HDTV
Led the 32V digital TV deflection unit technical product development effort. Guided the Electron-optic HDTV design from hands-on prototype development in Eindhoven N.V. to specification, installation, and development of a multi-tool production line for mass production in Juarez Mexico of 500k units/year @ $600/unit of 32V digital TV assemblies.
Group Leader Deflection Units Philips Display Components
Streamlined factory performance and deflection unit electro-optical testing programs.
Implemented a complete SAP software rollout for North America Display deflection units which integrated Juarez Plant 5, Findley Ohio CRT manufacturing, and Arbor MI. headquarters business activities
Instituted new testing methodologies eliminating significant out of spec internal material transfer from Plant 5 Juarez Mexico to production facilities in Findley Ohio. Managed and mentored a distributed group in Ann Arbor MI, Findley Ohio, and Juarez Mexico. Was nominated and placed on Philips executive fast track program.
1996 – 1998 Lightwave Microsystems, Santa Clara, CA
Design Engineer
Developed novel single mode multi-layer polymeric waveguides integrated into a six inch Si wafer platform for coherent laser based communication links.
SAIC program manager; managed development of a complex photonic circuit comprising of an optical switching network with polarization splitting directional couplers.
Introduced and developed Fluorine based plasma reactive ion etch chemistries for etching highly fluorinated polyimides. Designed and instituted semiconductor industry based experimental process travellers utilizing Taguchi design of experiment methodologies
1994 – 1996 Guided Wave Optics Lab. University of Colorado, Boulder
Professional Research Associate,
Delivered a multi wavelength Laser scanning tomographic mapping technique for measuring submicron defects in LiNbO3 modulators; also designed linearization schemes for CATV and phased array radar applications.
1993 – 1994 Optical Computing Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Assistant
Designed and fabricated novel optical circuits utilizing Smectic A*ferroelectric liquid crystals in the U.C Boulder Optical Computing Center class 100 clean room.
1990 – 1992 Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado
Professional Research Assistant,
Fabricated novel opto-acoustic sensor devices including a life size model of the human cochlea with optical readout,
Engineered Argon laser based coherent homodyne detection circuits based on optical ring resonators.
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1994 Master of Science, Electrical Engineering
1991 Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics
Professional Publications
Mitigation of thermal lensing effect as a brightness limitation of high-power broad area diode lasers
w/ John Bai et.al., Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers X, 79531F (17 February 2011)
Wavelength Dependence Of Irreversible Photo-Bleaching Of Dye-Doped Polymer Waveguide Materials
w/ Ed McKenna Jiuzhi Xue Regis Fan, Raluca Dinu, and Alan Mickelson, Applied Optics 44, 3063-3068 (2005)
Material Development And Processing For Electro-Optic Device Systems
w/ Dan Jin, Raluca Dinu, et. al., Organic Photonic Materials and Devices V; James Grote ed, July 2003
Scattering Induced Crosstalk in Active Directional Couplers
w/S. Lin, W. Feng, D. Tomic, R. Feuerstein, and Alan Mickelson, Journal of Lightwave Technology, September 1996
Equivalence of Voltage Bias and Geometric Waveguide Design
w/ S. Lin, W. Feng, J. Powelson, R. Feuerstein, and Alan Mickelson, Applied Physics Letters Vol. 68 Issue 20-277*-****-****
Passive Polymer Directional Couplers; Theory and Experiment
w/ S. Lin, W. Feng, J. Ma, D. Tomic, and Alan Mickelson, Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications, 1995 Vol. 21
Fiber Optic Acoustic Transducer for Audio Sound Processing
w/ Ghan Zhou, Dana Z. Anderson, Applied Optics, Vol. 31, No. 11, 1992
A Life Size Physical Model of the Human Cochlea with Optical Holographic Readout
w/ Ghan Zhou, Dana Z. Anderson, and Kathryn Bright, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 1993
Patents
US7330631
Electro-optic Polymer Waveguide Devices Incorporating Organically Modified Sol-Gel Clads
Inventors: Louis J. Bintz, Raluca Dinu, Danliang Jin
US7161726
Linear optical modulators and method of linear optical modulation
Inventors: Louis J. Bintz, Raluca Dinu
US6937811
Polymer waveguide devices incorporating electro-optically active polymer clads
Inventors: Louis J. Bintz, Raluca Dinu, Danliang Jin
US6902871
Method for manufacturing polymer microstructures and polymer waveguides
Inventors: Raluca Dinu Jeff K. Kressbach, Louis J. Bintz
US6895162
Multi-layer electro-optic polymer modulators with reduced optical coupling loss
Inventors: Louis J. Bintz, Raluca Dinu
Professional Activities & other publications
AFRL-SN-RS-TR-2006-154 Ultra-Linear Polymer Modulator
Lumera Corp Lou Bintz Alan Mickelson
Reviewer for LEOS-IEEE (Photonics Technology Letters, Journal of Quantum Electronics, and Journal of Lightwave Technology)
Hobbies
Enjoy camping, fishing, biking, amateur astronomy, music, automotive repair, and gardening
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