has worked in thin film technology for more than 45 years including research, development, and new product introduction. He co-founded the R&D department at Sierracin Corporation (now PPG Aerospace) and led the development of metallic thin film transparent conductive coatings (TCC) for aircraft windshields and canopies. He joined Xerox Electro-Optical Systems in 1972, to create and direct the Electro-Optical Device Technology Center (EODTC) for R&D and fabrication of EO devices used in Xerox products. In 1975, he founded Optical & Conductive Coatings (OCC) to perform R&D and production of TCC for military, industrial and scientific applications. OCC designed and manufactured (over 3000) M1 Tank windows with TCC heater deicing/defogging, EMI shielding and high transmittance in 3 wavebands: visible, NIR, and 1.06 mm laser range finder. He also led what is believed to be the first development of continuous thin film TCC for the mid-infrared (3mm - 5mm) waveband. Another OCC unique development was a patterned metallic coating for heating infrared windows with transmittance at visible through Far-IR wavelengths. OCC was acquired by Southwall Technologies (now Eastman Chemical) in 1992, and he became Director of Product Development. He led R&D and played a critical role in two production scale-ups of a durable 4-layer (ITO/SiO₂) AR/antistatic coating, magnetron sputter deposited, roll-to-roll on plastic film used by display manufactures (e.g., Sony). He was Vice President at Presstek, Inc., and its Delta V Technology subsidiary in 1998, where he directed the R&D of transparent conductive oxides (TCO), polymer multilayer (PML) technology, and transparent vapor barrier coatings, including the first barrier coatings using a TCO, (ITO). 3M acquired Delta V in 2000. As Senior Staff Scientist and Group Technical Leader with the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory he developed roll-to-roll coated, vacuum deposited, organic and inorganic multilayer thin film products for optical, transparent conductive, barrier and other applications. Retiring in 2013 after 13 years at 3M, he founded his current consulting practice - Bright Thin Film Solutions LLC. He served 12 years on the SVC Board of Directors and was President in 2004. In 2009, he received the SVC Fellow-Mentor Award, and in 2012 the Nathaniel Sugerman Award. He has been  an invited, keynote and plenary speaker at many domestic and foreign conferences. He has published numerous papers on optical thin films, and transparent conductive coatings, including book chapters on transparent conductors in "Transparent Electronics: From Synthesis to Applications" (Wiley, 2010), and "Optical Thin Films and Coatings, from Materials to Applications" (Woodhead, 2013), (2nd edition, Elsevier, June 2018). He is inventor or co-inventor on at least 28 U.S. patents in the field.