Dr. Steven L Smith

Electro-Optics design, and management professional with 15+ years experience Aerospace application, Photonics, imaging sensors and display systems. Proven track record in the design, engineering development and management of consumer and military electro-optical systems. Engineering management lead across a broad spectrum of operational roles including Phased gate New Product Development, engineering, research teams and manufacturing. Experience: *Project management from design specifications to systems requirements as developed through the Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, through Product Readiness Review for successful product launch Navy and Air Force programs. *Wearable display systems utilizing Wave guide optical components based on switchable Bragg gratings. *Optics system design, Visible, NIR, Hyperspectral, with Zemax Optics Studio and Oslo optical design tools,. *Poly-carbonate optical component design, manufacture, test and performance to MIL Specifications *Experience with: lasers, free based optics system, spectrum analyzers, spectrometers, goniophotometers, Optical bench, Angular optical performance analysis, haze meter, Optic performance measurement systems. *Experience with stereoscopic display systems, auto-stereoscopic display systems, stereoscopic image capture system design, *Experience in diffractive media mass production, metalization and converting. Six-Sigma Green Belt: recently acquired skill set applied to solving engineering problems and manufacturing efficiency. Research Lead/Inventor: Hyperspectral cryptography applied to novel method of color reflection security hologram and it's manufacture.