James Magras

James Magras - President and CEO at PRIZM Technical Consulting

James Magras is an experienced and entrepreneurial leader specializing in optics and optomechanics. He is the President and CEO of PRIZM Technical Consulting, an engineering consulting and design services company based in San Diego, California.1

Professional Experience

• Program Manager, CEO at PRIZM Technical Consulting (August 2020 - Present)

  • Manages all business aspects, including contracts, finance, process, and business development
  • Provides optical design, folded optical models to fit CAD layouts, mirror deformation analysis, and overall optical architecture consulting1

• Senior Project Lead at ASML (January 2018 - May 2019)

  • Led a multidisciplinary team of ~20 engineers to derisk and demonstrate IR and NIR laser technologies for future EUV source product nodes1

• Optical Engineer II at Cymer (February 2016 - January 2018)

  • Responsible for activities throughout the full product cycle of a > $1.5M project
  • Designed and evaluated optomechanical IR lens assemblies and flexurized metal mirrors using FEA1

Education

• University of Arizona (2009 - 2013)
  • Graduated with a 3.74 GPA1