Industrial Physicist with several years program management experience developing medical devices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, Dublin, CA
Ophthalmology medical devices.

Sr. Program Manager - Visante-OCT
- Managing a multidisciplinary team supporting an innovative optical coherence tomography (OCT) product line, Visante-OCT.
- Experience from initial product developpment to product launch/delivery.
- Project planning/reporting, design conttrol/engineering, regulatory and clinical studies, manufacturing, vendor relations, intellectual property, customer service, and sales/marketing.

VIOPTIX (PHOTONIFY TECHNOLOGIES), Fremont, CA
Biomedical devices start-up developing a tissue oximetry system for a variety of medical applications.

Director, New Product Research
- Lead new product innovations and applications for expanding tissue oximetry markets.
- Opto-mechanical engineering of disposaaable sensors for the tissue oximetry system including fiber-optic waveguides.
- Support co-development and manufacturiiing with industrial partners.
- Development of the intellectual properrrty portfolio.

QUANTUM DOT CORPORATION, Hayward, CA
Biotech start-up developing nanocrystal fluorescent agents for highly-multiplexed gene expression assays.

Senior Staff Scientist
- Develop analytical techniques during research and product development for observing photo-physical properties of semiconductor nanocrystal fluorophores. Measurements include fluorescence quantum yield, fluorescence lifetime, & other spectroscopic instrumentation. Develop in-situ fiber-optic probes for process monitoring.
- Develop specifications for assay produuuct instrumentation. Explore feasibility of fluorescence microscope systems and flow cytometer systems. Evaluate commercially available systems for suitability and potential for modifications.

OPTISCAN BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION, Alameda, CA
Biomedical start-up developing a painless, blood-glucose measurement system for diabetics.

Senior Optical Engineer
- Overhaul of non-imaging optical system to meet goals with significantly improved optical performance. Quantitative analysis derived with TracePro non-sequential ray-tracing modeling. High-resolution (far-infrared) spectroscopy achieved with high-throughput efficiency from a Lambertian source.
- Pioneered innovative spectroscopic meaaasurement techniques to overcome significant instrumental and sample measurement artifacts.

NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT, MALLINCKRODT, TYCO INTL., Pleasanton, CA
Medical device manufacturer of pulse oximetry monitors and respiratory care products.

Project Manager / Senior Engineer, Product Development
- Managed a 15-20 member multidisciplinaaary team developing an innovative, oximetry sensor and monitoring system. The sensors involved perfusion-enhancing devices and exploited certain circulatory phenomena.
- Project management included project plllanning and reporting, regulatory control, design control, design architecture, design engineering, clinical studies, budget planning, vendor relations, intellectual property, and team management.
- Technical leader for the design of theee sensor and instrumentation covering biomedical, optical, thermal, mechanical, electrical, embedded-software, and embedded-hardware fields.

Senior Scientist, Technology Development
- Conceived and constructed prototype seeensors for an advanced oximetry system to solve a main shortcoming of pulse oximetry monitoring.
- Developed advanced measurement systemsss for noninvasive optical spectroscopy of blood and tissue analytes.
- Evaluated external technologies for acccquisition and development purposes.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY, Berkeley, CA
Somorjai Research Group (Dept. of Chemistry) - Laser Spectrometer Consultant
- Designed and constructed a far-infrareeed sum-frequency spectrometer laser system for catalysis studies.

LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY, Berkeley, CA
PhD graduate studies, Post-doctoral studies.
- Nonlinear optical spectroscopy, surfaccce science, physical chemistry, and semiconductor physics.
- Chemistry of chemical vapor depositionnn (CVD) growth of diamond thin films.
- Physical chemistry of Langmuir-Blogetttt films.
- Investigated the electro-optical interrractions of porous silicon and CdS/CdSe nanocrystals for display and detector devices.
- Constructed a sophisticated, nonlinearrr, optical laser system and spectrometer system.
- Constructed a UHV chamber for surface cchemistry studies.
- Published and presented several papersss in internationally recognized journals and conferences.

CONTINUUM, Santa Clara, CA - Consultant for a major laser manufacturer in optimizing their pulsed laser system for generating near-to-far infrared laser light by Difference Frequency Generation (DFG).

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CANADA), Ottawa, Canada
Microstructural Sciences - Research Associate
- Developed fabrication processes for thhhin-film nonlinear optical waveguides used in integrated optics applications.

NORTHERN TELECOM (NORTEL NETWORKS), Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Advanced Devices - Research Engineer
- Supported VLSI CMOS device design effooorts.
- Characterized deep-level defect traps bby Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS) of new CMOS devices.
- Assessed the new, rapid-thermal anneallling process of refractory metal silicides for device interconnects.

EDUCATION / HONORS

Ph.D., Physics / M.A., Physics, University of California - Berkeley
B.S., Co-Operative Applied Physics, University of Waterloo, Canada
IBM Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council Centennial Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Quest Management Course
Quality Rapid Product Development Course (Project Management)
Bio-Optical Detection Systems Short-course
Fluorescence Markers / Spectroscopy Short-course
Critical Care Internship (Univ. Florida Gainesville)
Optical Coherence Tomography Short-course
Noninvasive Diagnostic Monitoring Short-course
Microsoft Project / Office Courses
Blood-borne Pathogen Training Quality System,
FDA and GMP Design Control Training

COMPUTER SKILLS

Software: MS applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), SigmaPlot, MathCAD, TracePro (ray-tracing), SolidWorks, imaging processing programs.
Computer languages: C/C++, Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Asyst, Forth, assembler, HTML, Labview.

PATENTS, PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected)

Non-invasive optical diagnostic medical device patents (8 issued, more pending).

- D.E.Bebout, P.D. Mannheimer, R.P. Chin, M.W. Joplin, "Site-Dependent Time Delays inPulse Oximetry Monitoring", ATS (2001).
- R.P. Chin, V. Petrova-Koch, Y.R. Shen,,, "Photoluminescence from Porous Silicon by Infrared Multiphoton Excitations", Science 270, 776 (1995).
- R.P. Chin, J.Y. Huang, Y.R. Shen, T.J... Chuang, & H. Seki, "Interactions of Hydrogen and Methyl Radicals with Diamond C(111) Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. B, 54, 8243 (1996).
- C.D. Stanners, Q. Du, R.P. Chin, P. Crrremer, G.A. Somorjai, and Y.R. Shen, "Polar Ordering at the Liquid/Vapor Interface of n-Alcohols (C1-C8)", J. Chem. Phys. Lett. 232, 407-413 (1994).
- R.P. Chin, J.Y. Huang, Y.R. Shen, H. SSSeki, T.J. Chuang, "Surface Chemical Analysis of Surface Species on the Diamond Surface by Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy", Laser Applications for Chemical Analysis IV, Optical Society of America 1994 (Invited Paper).

OTHER INTERESTS

Instrument-rated private pilot, gliding, hiking, swimming, biking, skiing/snowboarding, cooking, electronics, & photography.