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Benjamin B.

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Physics and Computer Science Consultant

I am a Ph.D. physicist with a large amount of practical experience in research, optical engineering, scientific computing, and high-performance graphics programming. I am an expert in scientific writing (proposals, papers, etc.), C/C++, and OpenGL programming. I am prepared to help you with your science or computer related projects.

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Scientist

Gagemaker, LP
Nov 2013 - Feb 2017 (3 years, 3 months)
Working as an optical engineer to construct a novel sensor for the inspection and characterization of metallic parts. - market surveys of competing technologies - methods of optical metrology - single-mode fiber coupled laser diode, and single-mode fiber-coupled superluminescent diode - use of Zemax to design and optimize optical systems - focus-tunable lenses - implementation of custom DSP routines - writing external routines to extend the functionality of LabView (Call Library Function)

Programmer/Developer

BirdzI
Jul 2005 - Jul 2012 (7 years)
Was the chief programmer, and co-developer on the open-source game "Egoboo." The main tasks included management of the codebase, debugging, improvements to the stability, writing the physics system, upgrading the graphics system, re-writing the parser for the scripting language, etc.

Research Associate

University of Western Australia, School of Physics
Jul 2004 - Dec 2006 (2 years, 5 months)
Working as a research scientist to construct a novel spectrometer. - designed, developed, tested, and publicized a novel nanosecond pulsed electron source - developed a method to approximate the governing differential equation of noisy data by extracting LPC coefficients - co-inventor of the Delayed Electron Emission Detector (DEED)

Education

PhD in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States 1995 - 2003
(8 years)

MS in Physics

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States 1993 - 1995
(2 years)

BS in Physics

Texas A&M University, United States 1987 - 1992
(5 years)

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