Engineering Manager Quality Assurance

Doug Childers

Coronado CA ***** USA, phone: +1-503-***-****

email: ****@*************.*** or ********.****@*****.*** Objective: To apply my experience in optics, imaging, color science and sensors to research and development of innovative products and systems. Key Skills: Optical design using Zemax, LightTools and CodeV. Research and development experience from initial concept through mass production. Over 20 issued patents. MATLAB, Python and Excel use including statistical and Monte Carlo Analysis Experience: Riptide Optics, LLC, Coronado, CA

· Optical Design Consultant, October 2007 – Present

· Provide optical design services to a variety of industries including LiDAR AR/VR, display, defense, medical, 3D printing and solar Most recent project developed rad hardened optics for Cube satellites Quartus Engineering, LaJolla, CA

· Optical Engineering Manager, September 2023 – September 2024

· Managed team of optics engineers for aerospace, FSO and Bio projects Meta, Coronado, CA

· Optical Design Contractor, Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

· Optical design for AR display products and Eye Tracking Systems. Directed external suppliers for test system development Phoseon Technologies, Hillsboro, OR

· Principal Optical Research Engineer, April 2011 – July 2016

· Optical design of collection and shaping optics for UV LED systems Coherent, Inc., Portland, OR

· Staff Optical Engineer, January 2010 – April 2011

· Optical design of laser beam shaping optics for biomedical applications

· Developed new manufacturing method to improve yield of optics InFocus Corporation, Portland, OR

· Senior Optical Engineer, January 2000 – October 2007

· Lead Optical Engineer for company's first home entertainment projector and first micro portable projector - DLP, LCD and LCOS system design

· Technical lead for color science issues and development

· Developed radiometric camera for measuring image performance including flat field calibration of cmos sensor and color calibration

· Optics POC for transitioning to offshore manufacturing (50k+ units/year) BAE Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA

· Advanced Systems Engineer, January 1996 – December 2000

· System modeling, design, and testing for multisensor land mine detection project using infrared cameras (IR), Radar and EMI Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs, Richland, WA

· D.O.E. Graduate Fellow, 1993-95

· Neural Network mage recognition algorithm dev for nuclear material detection system

Education: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN B.S., M.S. Applied Optics, May 1995 – Cum Laude

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