Biographical Summary

He has over 15 years of experience at GTRI in software development and hardware development, and has led programs to develop models of cameras and human eye interaction with electronic imaging systems, a system to detect foreign objects in food, and an infrared vision system to monitor the temperature of products leaving commercial ovens. He has developed high power pulsed illumination systems for machine vision projects for highway crack detection and foreign objection detection in commercial food production. John has developed processing software and data collection systems for DIAL LIDAR, turbulence profiling LIDARs and several aerosol profiling LIDARS. He has also directed a research program on deep UV LED based illuminators.

Education

1991  MS , Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia USA

 

1989 BS , Physics
Davidson College
Davidson, North Carolina USA

 

Employment History

2005–Present Senior Research Engineer
GTRI
Atlanta, Georgia USA

 

2001–2005  Research Engineer II
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, Georgia USA

 

2000–2001 Software Engineer
The Weather Channel
Atlanta, Georgia USA

 

1996–2000 Research Scientist II
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, Georgia USA

 

1993–1996  Systems Analyst
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, GA USA