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Complete Optical Solutions
Providing Optical Design Engineering, Consulting & Contracting Services
Feasability Studies Detailed Lens Design |
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Initial Consultation is Free!
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Customized Services:
- Design Optical Systems / Lens Design Engineering
- Prototype, Build & Measure Optical Systems and Devices
- Tolerance for Improved Performance and Manufacturability
- Generate New Product Concepts
- Perform Feasibility Studies
- Determine Product Performance Requirements & Specifications
- Model and Predict System Performance
- Pilot and Scale-Up Products for High Volume Manufacturing
- Design for Robust Manufacturability
- Design and Coordinate Fabrication of Tooling and Fixturing
- Improve System Costs
- Design and Improve Test & Measurement Processes
- Intellectual Property (IP) Due Diligence Research
The list goes on ... Call for more details.
Product Markets and Technologies:
- Thermal Infra-Red Optics, for the 3-5 & 8-12 Micron Wavebands (FLIRs)
- Free Space Optics (FSO) for High Speed Laser Communication Links
- Image-Intensified Systems; Night Vision Goggles (NVGs)
- Head-Mounted Optics: Virtual Reality; Retinal Scanning Displays (RSD); LCD Display Optics
- Camera Optics: Photographic Objectives, Viewfinders, Photometer Optics, etc.
- Laser Guidance Optics for SAL (Semi-Active Laser) Systems
- Ophthalmic Optics: Contact Lenses, Spectacle Lenses, Progressive Addition Lenses (PALs), Monovision
- Microscope Systems: Objectives, Eyepieces, Infinity Optics, Illumination Optics
- Aspheric Optics for Improved Performance & Lower Weight & Cost
- Injection-Molded Plastic Optics, Glass Optics & Crystal Optics
- Fiber Optics: Image Relay Bundles, Power Delivery, Coupling Systems for Fiber Sensors
- Illumination Systems: Photography, Optical Benches, Fiber Optics, etc.
- Diffractive Optics
- Telescopes and Astronomical Optics
- Visible and Infra-Red Systems
- SWIR Illuminators and SWIR Imagers
- MWIR & LWIR, Staring and Scanning FLIR Optics
- ENVG, Enhanced Night Vision Goggles
- DENVG, Digitally Enhanced Night Vision Goggles
- USPL Optics
- IED Detection and Identification
- Spectrometer Optics
- FCS, Future Combat Systems
- Low-Light-Level, Full-Color TV Optics
- Unmanned Vehicle Platforms Optical Sensors, UAVs, UGV, ROVs
Plus Lots More ... Call and ask.
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Call Kevin Hines today, and find out how to make your optical project a success. |
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Complete Optical Solutions |
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Telephone: 540-819-8020 |
Complete Optical Solutions
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Customized Solutions:
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Lens Design |
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Imaging Systems |
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Military and Commercial Optical Systems |
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Contributed to the new product development efforts of |
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LOCKHEED-MARTIN, RAYTHEON – TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, LEICA, |
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ITT, MICROVISION, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, POLAROID... |
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Let’s make your optical project a success too! |
Selected Project Highlights:
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Design
Infra-Red FLIR Optics
Design FSO (Free Space Optics) Transmit and Receive Lens Systems Successfully designed high performance, low-cost, secure, giga-bit laser communication link optics, significantly improving link margin by a factor of 18 dB.
Develop
Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs)
Design
and Build Fiber-Optic Coupling Systems
Solve
Stray-Light Issues
Create
Unique New Products
Boost
Manufacturing Process Yields
Streamline
QC Inspection Methods |
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Call Kevin Hines today, and find out how to make your optical project a success. |
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Complete Optical Solutions |
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Telephone: 540-819-8020 |
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KEVIN P. HINES |
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Providing Optical Design Engineering & Consulting Services |
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Complete Optical Solutions |
Telephone: 540-819-8020 |
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28 Winthrop Place |
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Daleville, Virginia 24083 |
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MISSION STATEMENT |
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Provide optical engineering services to clients; |
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Develop successful and superior optical products. |
OPTICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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COMPLETE OPTICAL SOLUTIONS, Roanoke, Virginia |
1998 – Present |
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Chief Engineer and Owner |
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Design, develop and implement solutions to optical engineering challenges faced by client organizations. |
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§ Filed patents with partner organizations, on new, innovative optical technologies. Combined market value is approximately one billion dollars; current development investments are over two million dollars. |
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§ Designed complex night-vision, FLIR optics, with compound angles in 3-D, producing a lens design solution to a complex, previously unsolvable challenge, contributing to development of a 250-million dollar electro-optical targeting and designation system for the new Comanche helicopter. |
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§ Designed scanning and viewing optics for breakthrough Retinal Scanning Display (RSD) systems, scanning low-power laser beams directly onto the user’s retinas, providing full-color, full-motion video without the use of screens or external images, bright enough to be viewed in direct sunlight. Designed optics to incorporated diffractive and micro-lens array technologies, to boost optical system performance. |
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§ Designed, built and delivered fiber optic coupling system, to interrogate a fiber optic sensor with a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer, successfully boosting signal strength by a factor of 80 times. Delivered system on budget and ahead of schedule. |
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JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, Innotech Division, Roanoke, Virginia |
1997 – 1998 |
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Manager of Optical Engineering |
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Created and managed optical labs: Specified, procured and coordinated the setup of new optical labs; managed day-to-day activities of staff using optical labs; coordinated maintenance, calibration of equipment and training of lab staff members. |
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Measured and characterized optical products: Created a product measurement and performance database in Microsoft Access; incorporated both in-house and competitive products to obtain strategic advantage over our competitors. |
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§ Planned out two new optical labs from scratch, to develop in-house optical metrology capabilities. |
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§ Developed and improved model of theoretical limit of Progressive Add Lenses’ imaging performance, to streamline feasibility studies of new optical product designs. |
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§ Created plans for profilometry capabilities, to measure, characterize and qualify aspheric optical tooling. |
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LEICA, Optical Products Division, Buffalo, New York |
1996 - 1997 |
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Director of R & D Engineering |
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Directed the development of new optical products, coordinating efforts between R&D, marketing, design, prototyping, piloting and manufacturing. Managed the fourteen-member R&D Department, with an annual budget of $2 million. Created new, precise, cost‑effective microscope and refractometer products. |
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§ Led development of innovative materials for microscopy markets, such as the fully conductive plastic microscope body for semiconductor applications and glass-composite materials to reduce weight and cost while maintaining crisp optical and mechanical performance. |
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§ Created empowered, cross-functional teams to oversee development projects, resulting in improved forecasting of resources required and delivery dates to complete projects. |
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§ Coordinated the efforts of international engineering organizations in Germany, Switzerland, China and the USA. |
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POLAROID CORPORATION, Precision Optics, Norwood, Massachusetts |
1992 - 1996 |
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Senior Optical Engineer and Supervisor |
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Supervised laboratory staff and coordinated projects. Predicted and improved manufacturing costs, yields and quality. Worked with R&D to bring new optical products into manufacturing. Directed quality control of precision, plastic optical elements, and assemblies at high production volumes (20‑50 million lenses per year). |
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Prototyped, tested and improved optical imaging systems. Optimized manufacturing processes for precision optical elements and assemblies. Directed and worked with engineers, scientists, technicians, machine operators, and mechanical designers. Created and analyzed Taguchi-method experiments to improve both products and processes. Reported to the manager of new product development. |
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§ Piloted diffractive optical elements into volume manufacturing (10,000 units per year). |
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§ Led and participated in Business Improvement Teams that improved profitability and increased customer satisfaction. Led a team that reduced contamination of view-finder assemblies from 4.5% to 0.5% (i.e. a nine-times improvement), earning personal visit and recognition from CEO of Polaroid. |
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§ Oversaw process improvement efforts with a Scottish subsidiary, resulting in improvements of up to 25-times improvement in the production yield of reticle lenses. |
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia |
1992 |
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Graduate Research Assistant, FEORC (Fiber and Electro-Optical Research Center) |
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Investigated novel fiber optic systems and components for innovative applications such as optical power delivery and sensors. Worked for the research center while pursuing graduate coursework, with a concentration in Fiber Optics. Earned a funded position working on a Virginia Department of Aviation contract. |
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ITT, Electro-Optical Products Division, Roanoke, Virginia |
1989 - 1991 |
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Optical Systems Lead Engineer |
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Designed, prototyped, tested, improved, and implemented optical imaging systems into image intensified night vision products. Optimized transmission, weight, cost, size, tolerance, stray‑light and boresight performance for both visible and near infra‑red wavebands. Tested performance of optical components and night vision systems. Created software models of optical systems' performance. Coordinated setup of automated optical test equipment. Directed the work of vendors, technicians and mechanical designers. Managed laser safety within division. |
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§ Wrote portions of successful proposals, helping ITT to win majority of PVS-7B and ANVIS contracts. |
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§ Created and taught "Introduction to Optics" courses, improving the skills of both in‑house staff and customers. |
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Dallas, Texas |
1986 - 1989 |
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Optical Design Engineer |
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Designed and developed both visible and thermal infra‑red (3 to 5 micron and 8 to 12 micron wavebands) imaging systems, particularly forward looking infra‑red (FLIR) systems. Designed lens and mirror systems to optimize image quality, weight, size, cost, resolution, modulation transfer function (MTF), illumination, coldshielding, narcissus, coldspike, tolerances, and boresight performance. Designed, analyzed and improved optical system types such as: FLIR systems, common module thermal infra‑red systems, laser rangefinders, laser target designators, infra‑red "heat‑seeking" missile seekers, electro‑optical counter‑counter measures (EOCCM), and Diamond Point Turned aspheric optics. Tested lenses. Used Code V software daily. Wrote software models of optical systems' performance. |
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EDUCATION |
M.S., Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1986
Awarded a Ph.D. Fellowship at the Institute of Optics
Successfully Completed Ph.D. Written Qualifying Exam
B.S., Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1984
Degree Awarded “with Honors”
GPA in major: 3.75 / 4.0
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Completed graduate courses in Fiber Optics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. (1991-1992) and undergraduate courses in Mechanical Engineering Technology, Old Dominion University (1990-1991). |
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Completed the following training courses: Advanced Lens Design; Design for Manufacturability; Precision Mechanics for Optical Systems; Microscopy; Photographic Science; Injection Molding of Plastics; Tooling for Injection Molding (taught by Tredegar Tooling, Inc.); Taguchi Methods/Design of Experiments (12 weeks); Statistical Engineering and Process Control (14 weeks); Electronic Imaging; Advanced MS Access Database Management; Total Quality Management; Polaroid Leadership Course; Personnel, Policy and Wage Administration for Supervisors & Managers; Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course; Business Improvement Team Training; Laser Safety Officer Training. |
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Software Skills Include: CodeV, Zemax, OSLO, and also some FRED, Light Tools, Opti-CAD, etc. |
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PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS |
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§ "How To Successfully Develop New Optical Products," presented to the Optical Society of America, National Capital Section, 1999. |
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§ P. P. Clark, Y. Y. Chao and K. P. Hines, "Production Application of Injection Molded Diffractive Elements," SPIE Proceedings, Volume 2600, 1995. |
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§ "Astronomical Optics - Principles and Practical Advice," presented to the RVAS Astronomical Organization, 1999. |
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AFFILIATIONS & INTERESTS |
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§ AUVSI – Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International |
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§ Build Robotic Vehicles, including UGVs & UAVs, with optical & video sensor suites |
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§ Coach & Sponsor School Robotics Teams |
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§ Optical Society of America (OSA), Elected Officer in Local Section |
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§ Society of Photo‑Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Invited To Chair an SPIE Conference Session |
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§ Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) |
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§ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
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§ Conversant in German; naturally skilled at learning new languages, including some Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. |
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§ Avid RC aircraft pilot, kayaker, amateur astronomer, camper and hiker. |
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Call Kevin Hines today, and find out how to make your optical project a success. |
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Complete Optical Solutions |
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Telephone: 540-819-8020 |