Candidate for
School Director; Abington School District

Professional Experience

2/00-Present Principal Staff R&D Engineer: Advanced Photonic Technology Research and Development

1/95-1/00 Staff Photonics/RF/Microwave/Millimeter-Wave Design Engineer: Satellite Communication Hardware

1989-1994 Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow

Ph.D. 1994 Cornell University Ithaca, NY Major: Electrical Engineering * Minor: Applied Physics *Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow Dissertation: " Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodiodes With Applications in Monolithic Optical Receiver Circuits Capable of Detecting and Amplifying a Millimeter-Wave Modulation Signal Being Transmitted Via an Optical Carrier"

M.S. 1986 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Research Project: Microwave Power Combining by Placing an Array of Gunn Diode Sources in a Quasi-Optical Free-Space Cavity

B.S. 1985 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Major: Electrical Engineering *GPA: 3.8 on a 4.0 scale *Graduated with high honors, top 2%

Academic Achievements

• Hughes Aircraft Company, Howard Hughes Ph.D. Fellowship 1989-1994
• Amoco Oil Company Fellowship 1988-1989
• IEEE-MTT Fellowship 1989
• Institute Fellowship, California Institute of Technology 1985-1986
• University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 1985-1986 (Caltech Fellowship Accepted)
• Drexel University Dean's List First Honors 1981,1983,1984,1985
• Drexel University Dean's List 1982
• Milton Rosenberg Award, Drexel University 1984 (for outstanding junior engineers)

• Eta Kapa Nu: National Electrical Engineering Honor Society
• Tau Beta Pi: National Engineering Honor Society

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• American Physical Society (APS)

Method and Apparatus for Controlling a Frequency Hopping Laser United States Patent: 7,418,205 Issued: August 26, 2008

Method and Apparatus for Reducing Crosstalk and Nonlinear Distortions Induced By Raman Interactions in a Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Optical Communication System United States Patent: 7,271,948 B1 Issued: September 18, 2007

Time Slot Tunable All-Optical Packet Data Routing Switch United States Patent: 6,788,839 Issued: September 7, 2004

Monolithic Integrated Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer United States Patent: 6,671,426 Issued: December 30, 2003

Time Slot Tunable All-Optical Packet Data Demultiplexer United States Patent: 6,650,800 Issued: November 18, 2003