Patrick Keiffer

Product Engineering at Leonardo

Tucson, Arizona, United States

About

Experience

  • Leonardo (Tucson, Arizona, United States)
    • Product Engineering Manager II
      Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

      - Product Engineering Manager overseeing all high peak power laser diode products - Technical lead and customer point of contact - Production line yield management - Management of root cause corrective action efforts - Failure analysis - Product development - Executive summaries - Basis of estimate for new opportunities - Spec identification for new products

    • Program Manager
      May 2021 - Jan 2022 · 9 mos

      Program Manager overseeing product development programs within the Laser Systems division.

  • NP Photonics (Tucson, Arizona, United States)
    • Product Development Engineer
      Aug 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      - Prototype fiber laser development - Responded to dynamically changing customer driven priorities - Developed process documentation for eventual full release of product line - Led weekly update meetings with customers -Point person for engineering, reporting, schedule maintenance, design validation, and quality control tasking from customer as well as fulfilling internal tasking and requirements

    • Sales and Marketing Engineer
      Feb 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Sales and Marketing: customer sales, website management, market research, marketing media. Engineering: government projects, product development, custom systems, project lead.

  • University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona Area)
    • Graduate Research Assistant
      Jul 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      • High energy fiber laser group focusing on USP CPA fiber systems. • Designed and built compression stage for CPA system. • Designed and built 2um pumped OPA for 8-12um generation. • Investigated thin-disk high energy regenerative amplifier system. • Designed and built an all-optical prototype that performed multiplication and normalization through light-matter interactions alongside fellow PhD candidate Masoud Babaeian.

    • Graduate Research Assistant
      Dec 2013 - Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      • Quantum Nano-Optics of Semiconductors (QNOS) group studying plasmonic nanostructures and coupling to molecular beam epitaxy grown quantum dots and quantum wells. • Ran photoluminescence experiments on in-lab grown quantum wells, quantum dots. • Designed, built, and ran pump probe experiment for lifetime measurements. • Familiarity with Molecular Beam Epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductor materials and characterization techniques. • Oversaw maintenance of Ti:Sapphire laser and OPO system.

  • Summer Research Associate at Air Force Research Laboratory
    May 2014 - Aug 2014 · 4 mos

    Contracted through Wyle Principle Investigator: Dr. Josh Hendrickson Group: Optoelectronic Technology Branch Focus: Ran FTIR scans to analyze frequency filtering capabilities of Gallium Nitride slab waveguides.

  • Summer Research Assistant at Tulane University
    May 2010 - Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Primary Investigator: Professor Dr. Igor Rubtsov Group: Chemical Physics Lab with a focus on Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy Focus: I focused on the development of novel methods for measuring 3D structures of molecules in solution at physiological temperatures using ultra-fast laser spectroscopy.