Candidate for
Governing Board Member; Pleasanton Unified School District

Last Updated 10/02/03

PERSONAL:

• Born in Queens, NYC, July 17, 1968
• Grew up in Astoria, Queens
• Pleasanton community resident for nearly 3 years
• Married to my wife, Ruslana, for 4 years
• Phone: (925) 600-9964
• e-mail: mjj2@columbia.edu

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, February 9, 2000 Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
  3.7 Cumulative G.P.A. (A = 4.0)
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 19, 1993 Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
  3.7 Cumulative G.P.A. (A = 4.0)
• B.E. in Electrical Engineering, May 20, 1990 Manhattan College, Riverdale, N.Y.
  3.8 Cumulative G.P.A. (A = 4.0)

• American Society for Engineering Education Fellowship (2000).
• Presidential Award, Manhattan College (1990).

• ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education)
• AIP (American Institute of Physics)
• APS (American Physical Society)
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering)
• NHS (National Honor Society)

• Six years teaching and/or assisting Senior Electrical Engineering Laboratory and graduate level Electrical Engineering courses at Columbia University, NY (1993-1999)
• One year volunteer CCD (Catechist) instruction at Immaculate Conception elementary school, NY and 1 year volunteer teaching a BASIC computer programming class (1985-1986)
• Volunteer installation of webserver and established website for St. Luke's Church, NJ (1994)

• Consulting Engineer, Pleasanton, CA, 3/03 - Present. Modelling and design of opto-electronic and electronic devices as well as RF packaging for opto-electronic components. Development of in-situ optical monitoring systems for semiconductor processing.

• Axon Photonics, Livermore, CA, 5/01 - 2/03. Optoelectronic Division. Senior Product Development Engineer: Perform experimental and theoretical R&D in support of active device product lines. Product development of InP-based SOA's, FP lasers, and DFB lasers including device specification, modelling/design, processing, characterization, & qualification. Responsible for QC&R of SOA, FP laser, and DFB laser product lines. DFB Laser Project Leader: Responsible for overall development of DFB laser product line targeted for OC-48 and OC-192. Facet Coating Manager: Demonstrated novel ultra-low (~1e-4) reflectance facet-coating process for windowless SOA's.

• Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 1/00 - 4/01. Optical Sciences Div., Adv. Materials Sect. ASEE Postdoctoral Fellow: Perform experimental investigations into new classes of optically- and electrically-pumped mid-IR/VLWIR high-power lasers, photodetectors and novel devices. Development of novel opto-electronic device fabrication and characterization techniques. Optical system design. OE device design and simulation. Demonstrated highly-efficient HgCdTe (MCT) negative luminescent devices and mid-IR angled-grating-DFB lasers.

• Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 9/93 - 12/99. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Graduate Research Assistant/Teacher Assistant: Conduct graduate level R&D as part of group with MBE growth and material/device characterization capabilities. Opto-electronic (OE) semiconductor device design/modeling, III-V (GaAs, InAs, GaN) device fabrication, OE & RF device characterization, and publication/presentation of results. Developed blue-green ZnSe and GaAs(SHG) lasers, GaN HEMT's, 1.3um InGaAsN lasers, HBT/laser integration, InAs HEMT's, polar-material layer nucleation and MBE growth techniques, wet/dry III-V & nitride processing techniques.

• I.B.M., Large System Development Lab, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 8/90 - 8/93. Large System Design Dept. Associate Engineer: Subsystem Module Coordinator/Designer and Chip Designer for high-end mainframe. Subsystem/module design team coordination. Bipolar/CMOS logic/physical chip design. Multi-chip module design: thermal, timing, noise, delta-I, test, wiring, and power analyses. Wiring rules requirements. Process and Methodology for chip and module logical/physical design. Logical and physical design tool specification and development.

• I.B.M., T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hghts., N.Y., 2/89 - 8/90. Magnetic Recording Dept., Appl. Phys. Div. Engineer: Electronics design, prototyping, and programming as part of an R&D group.

• PROJECTS & PATENTS: 30+ publications, 1 patent. InP DFB lasers/SOA's. micro-AR facet coating. HgCdTe negative luminescent devices. High-power mid-IR angled-grating-DFB lasers. Pin Assignment Algorithms (U.S. Patent #5544088), GaN- and InAs-based HEMT's, GaAs HBT/laser integration, visible ZnSe and GaAs (SHG) lasers, GaAs HBT-on-Si, 1.3um InGaAsN laser, EPROM Emulation System, tilted-substrate and III-V-on-Si nucleation.

• SKILLS: 4+ years technical management/coordination experience. 9+ years R&D in lab environment. Opto-electronic device/component/module production (GaAs, InP, In/GaSb, GaN, HgCdTe): design, fabrication, characterization and qualification of laser diodes, photodetectors, SOA's, HEMT's, HBT's. Material/Device/System characterization: electro-optical-mechanical system design, transistor/photodetector/laser OE & RF characterization, BERT, CV, TLM, Hall, GPIB, DAQ, FTIR, XRD, PL, and spectroscopy. Thin-film coating: SOA/laser facet, fixture design. Modeling/Simulation: finite difference, transfer matrix, complex-eigenvalue search. Optimization algorithms for device/system design. FORTRAN, C, Mathematica, Labview, SPICE, OrCAD, L-Edit, Magic, Origin, Ansoft Maxwell 2D & HFSS, IBM EDA tools. Fabrication: wet/dry etch, photolithography, thin film deposition, optical coating/ monitoring, vacuum systems. Semiconductor/vacuum system repair/modification/rebuild. QC&R: Telcordia GR-468.