Dr. Clive Standley
email: cstandley@rcn.com
Career Objective.
I am searching for an optical engineering position where I can also use my technical and management experience gained on NASA, DOE, USAF, NIH and commercial programs.
Employment Summary.
I am an Associate Professor at UMass Medical School where I design and build laser systems and fluorescence microscopes. I hold a Ph.D in physics from Imperial College and completed my postdoctoral research at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I have 20 years of management and engineering experience gained in academic, Government and commercial environments including:
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Astronomer at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, observed on major international telescopes using photon counting speckle camera.
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Principal Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, responsible for testing, delivery and alignment of flight gratings on the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.
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Principal Scientist and Program Manager at United Technologies Adaptive Optics Associate, product manager for the WaveScope wavefont sensor, program manager for $2M lithography systems contract and program manager for multi-million dollar Optical Sensor Package contract for Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility.
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Consultant to USAF Airborne Laser (ABL) in Sunnyvale CA. Aligned wavefront sensor, Target Illumination and Beacon Laser sensors.
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Associate Professor at UMass Medical School, design and construction of fluorescence microscopes, worked on successful proposal for a $7M National of Institutes of Health grant, latest paper “microRNA-mediated integration of hemodyamics and Vegf signaling during angiogenesis” published in Nature 2010. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08889.html
I have also managed engineering staff and contributed to annual personnel reviews. I have worked on proposals, developing schedules, WBS and cost estimates; coordinated engineers, technicians and administrative staff to meet program goals and milestones; conducted regular customer status meetings and lead CDRs and PDRs; developed and maintained critical path schedules to track program progress and coordinated the efforts of software, mechanical, electrical and optical engineers with procurement and manufacturing to produce cost effective designs within budget and schedule. I have received management training at the University of Maryland, NASA and United Technologies and have extensive practical experience of engineering configuration management, BOM, ECR, MRP, budgeting and scheduling, manpower estimates, FAR and DOORS methodologies.
Technical Expertise.
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Optical metrology and optical alignment techniques, opto-mechanics, use of alignment telescopes, theodolites, PIP generators, opto-mechanical assembly and bonding, optical testing.
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Testing of flats, off axis parabolas, spherical mirrors, diffraction gratings and complete systems.
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Optical Inspection, MIL-O-13830A and ISO-10110.
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Cleanroom operations and contamination engineering, MIL-SPEC-1246C.
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Adaptive optics, wavefront sensors, and echelle spectrographs.
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Digital imaging systems, FPAs, photon counting detectors, PMTs, intensified CCDs, EMCCD.
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Motion control and closed loop process control.
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Mechanical design with AutoCad, optical design with Zemax and OSLO, MatLab, LabView
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Lasers: Argon ion, DPSS, laser diodes, Tsunami two-photon laser.
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Ultra high vacuum systems.
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Fluorescence microscopy, total internal reflection microscopy, two-photon microscopy.
Management Expertise.
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Commercial and government contract management of electro-optical systems, NASA, DOE, USAF, schedule and budget planning, resources allocation, milestone definition and adherence.
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Performed technical and programmatic reviews through PDR, CDR, and TIM (Technical Interchange Meetings).
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Experience in Federal Acquisition Regulations, standard accounting practices, spaceflight and military documentation standards.
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Technical and management proposal writing experience for government and commercial programs.
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SOW, WBS, management resource and content planning, QA responsibilities, government costing of materials and labor.
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Management of engineering documentation and quality through configuration management, ECR, NMR, RMA, Work Orders and BOM.
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Developed manpower and resources requirements for programs lasting up to 5 years.
Education.
1983 to 1986: Imperial College, University of London, Ph.D. Physics, Diploma of Imperial College.
Thesis “Real Time Autocorrelation Applied to Speckle Interferometry”. My research involved the development and use of a real-time, diffraction limited, astronomical imaging system.
1980 to 1983: Imperial College, University of London, B.Sc. Physics, Associate Royal College of Science.
Three year undergraduate degree in physics specializing in applied physics and optics in the final year.
Management Courses.
1993: University of Maryland, Managing Science and Technology.
1994: NASA GSFC, Systems Engineering Process for Programs and Projects.
1997: AOA/United Technologies management training.
Employment History.
2004 to Present: Associate Research Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
I am an Associate Research Professor in the UMass Medical School’s Biomedical Imaging Group. I am responsible for the development and application of a number of research fluorescence microscopes. Research projects include structured light microscopy, total internal reflection microscopy and interference reflection microscopy to study endocytosis and 2-photon microscopy to investigate angiogenesis in live zebrafish. I design and install engineering upgrades to commercial microscopes and work with the biologists to implement optical strategies to observe the molecular biology of the cell. I was a major contributor to a successful $7M NIH grant proposal and was second author on a recent Nature paper.
1997 to 2004: Principal Scientist, Adaptive Optics Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Program Manager, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, NIF Program.
I was the program manager responsible for a multi-million dollar contract to build Optical Sensor Packages (OSP) for Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility (NIF). These packages contain beam relay optics, intensity monitors and Hartmann sensors to measure the wavefront of NIF’s laser beams. All assembly and alignment was carried out in a Class 300 clean room environment.
Optical Engineer on US Air Force’s Airborne Laser.
I provided technical support to the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed for the Airborne Laser wavefront sensor and laser ranging and guidance instrument. The wavefront sensor was designed and built at AOA to measure the wavefront of the Beacon Illuminator and High Energy Laser Beams of the U.S. Airforce’s Airborne Laser (ABL). I performed optical alignment of the sensor and installed it at Lockheed’s Sunnyvale facility. Lockheed’s management then asked me to lead a team to test and integrate the fine guidance and tracking sensors.
Program Manager, Lithography Systems.
I managed the production of multi-million dollar, ultraviolet laser beam delivery systems used in lithography. The products were assembled in a Class 1000 clean room environment and numerous optical elements aligned to arc second tolerances. I participated in opto-mechanical design, managed production resources and flow through the facility, worked with buyers to control inventory and performed critical alignment tasks on the production floor. I was responsible for on time delivery which requiring coordination of the customer’s schedule with AOA’s production, inventory and vendors.
Product Manager, Adaptive Optics Systems, Winner “Photonics Circle of Excellence Award 1999”.
I managed the manufacture of the WaveScope wavefront sensor. In 1999 WaveScope won Photonics Spectra magazine’s “Circle of Excellence Award”. On a weekly basis I reported to the General Manager on technical and financial status and presented strategies to improve performance. My responsibilities also included internal research, product development and contract management in the areas of optical metrology and adaptive optics.
1992 to 1997: Principal Scientist, Hughes STX, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD.
I was a senior staff member on NASA’s engineering team for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). I joined the team to procure and characterize the detectors and diffraction gratings in the three-year engineering phase. I worked closely with vendors to specify the mirrors and gratings which were tested for figure using standard interferometry techniques before going on to testing in the ultraviolet. The ultraviolet testing required the design of a multi-million dollar vacuum ultraviolet optical system and detailed experimental procedures. The system replicated the optical modes of the spectrograph using flight like mirrors, detectors and actuators so we were able to produce full echelle spectra prior to launch for use in calibration and alignment. The large number of optics to be tested and the launch schedule required a staff of ten engineers working on two shifts. After selection of the flight optics I spent a year at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, working on the optical alignment and calibration of the space flight instrument. I was present at the launch of the instrument on the Space Shuttle in 1997.
1991 to 1992: Chief Scientist, Amherst Process Instruments, Hadley, MA.
I developed beam delivery optics, photomultiplier signal amplifiers and correlators for a time of flight particle sizing instrument.
1987 to 1991: Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA.
I performed research in speckle interferometry and photon counting detectors and observed on major telescopes in Chile, Texas and Arizona.
Awards.
NASA Achievement Awards, 1994, 1996 and 1998.
Photonics Circle of Excellence Award, 1999.
AOA achievement award for US Air Force’s Air Borne Laser Wavefront Sensor delivery, 2001.
As program manager for OSP contract achieved a 95% vendor rating from Lawrence Livermore. This was the highest vendor rating.
Personal details.
Age: 50
Sex: Male
Citizenship: US
Publications
Numerous publications in peer reviewed scientific journals
