University of Central Florida

Wellesley College

York School

Laser Scientist, Writer, Public Speaker

Infleqtion

Director of External and Government Affairs

Virtuous Cycles LLC offers interactive talks and workshops across a broad range of networking and professional development topics based on the Sustainable Networking approach. Sustainability applied to networking is about treating professional support and assistance like a resource and creating more of it than you take, creating to a virtuous cycle of success for you and your network.

Virtuous Cycles LLC

Business Owner

Movement Climbing + Fitness

Yoga Instructor

Senior Legislative Affairs Specialist

Senior Analyst

Editing scientific and technical papers written by non-native English speakers.

AJE - American Journal Experts

Independent Contract Editor

Served as Legislative Aide to Senator Ginal (District 14) for the 73rd Colorado General Assembly.
https://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/joann-ginal

Colorado General Assembly

Legislative Aide to Senator Ginal

Author of the book "Sustainable Networking for Scientists and Engineers" published by SPIE. 
The ebook available for free download at: https://spie.org/Publications/Book/2535499?SSO=1

Freelance

Book Author

2019-2020 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow sponsored by OSA & SPIE
Developed legislation and performed oversight functions as minority staff on the Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (Ranking Member Senator Hassan), part of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Managing a diverse legislative portfolio with a focus on the energy efficiency and sustainability of the federal government.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/fso

United States Congress

AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow

Performed assembly, testing, and analysis of a high-power, solid state laser amplifier.

Fibertek Inc.

Consultant: Laser Scientist

Performed design, modeling, assembly, and testing of solid state laser resonators, amplifiers, and non-linear conversion systems for remote sensing applications, resulting in publications and follow-on programs. Developed diagnostic troubleshooting procedures, delivered internal and external technical presentations, and acted as part of the strategic planning team for the New Technology Initiative.

Laser Scientist

Work in photonic data collection, specializing in laser tracking and imaging applications.

Vision Engineering Solutions, LLC

Optics and Laser Scientist

Cycling Savvy is a traffic cycling course developed for the Florida Bicycle Association.

CyclingSavvy

Instructor

Implementation of high power thin-disk laser system.

Boeing

Intern

CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics.  Work in laser development including pulsed 1 um thin disk lasers, analysis of thermal effects of ceramic gain media, and 2 um thulium fiber lasers.

Graduate Research Assistant

Development of electronics for optical frequency combs.  Composition and illustration of user manual for the assembly, alignment and calibration of a 50+ part iodine stabilized helium-neon laser for metrological applications.

AIST Tsukuba, Japan

Researcher

Development of on-demand piezo-injected droplets (hydrosomes) for optical trapping and chemical interaction analysis.

Christina C. C. Willis