Mark Fink

Experience

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  US Army

  Jul 1985 - Jul 1986

  Forward Area Alerting Radar Platoon Leader - Second Lieutenant

  • Responsible for 23 men, 8 radars, a 6-man maintenance section, and for providing the air defense battalion’s ground units early warning radar. • Additionally served as Battery Executive Officer and officer-in-charge for 17 additional duties• Established a training program for the Battery’s Nuclear Biological Chemical teams and succeeded in being the only battery to pass the division test the first time. • Brought the battery’s accounting and ordering/receiving procedure for petroleum products up to the division standard and successfully passed a Battalion Command Inspection. Show less

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  US Army

  Oct 1986 - Sept 1989

  • Responsible for both informing the air defense battalion of the brigade’s tactical situation and advising the brigade commander on air defense utilization. • Developed tactical air defense gunnery program for Vulcan units (armored 20 mm gatling gun).Negotiated with Seventh Army’s and Grafenwoehr’s Safety personnel for less restrictive and more realistic Vulcan gunnery program. • Planned and organized the battalion’s “CAN DO” sports week which included 23 events (such as triathlon, football, checkers), staffing each event with referees and the coordination of both on-base and surrounding community facilities to support each event. Show less • Second in command of a 150-man battery consisting of four platoons of MIM-72 Chaparral tracked vehicles and one platoon of stinger missiles.• Responsible for the battery’s administration (awards, evaluation reports, individual record and monthly status reports) and the battery’s tactical operations center during field exercises. • Developed a battery records and file system that increased the completion time of the monthly status reports by 20%. • Initiated weekly training meetings that reduced late training schedules. Show less • Responsible for the training and welfare of 47 soldiers, and the accountability and serviceability of all platoon equipment. • Incorporated the Stinger weapon system into tactical operations during field training• Started a new training program to correct apathy and a decline in platoon test scores using experienced enlisted soldier to instruct basic soldier skills and noncommissioned officers to instruct advanced skills and tactics. • Lead platoon in achieving third place in European theater during the 1987 Service Practice/Missile Fire Exercise. Show less

  • Air Defense Fire Support Officer - Captain

    Aug 1988 - Sept 1989

  • Battery Executive Officer - First Lieutenant

    Dec 1987 - Aug 1988

  • Stinger Platoon Leader

    Oct 1986 - Dec 1987
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  Raytheon Missile Systems

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1999

  Optical Engineer

  • Subcontract manager of the DSMAC Illuminator unit, a 0.7 million dollar Tactical Tomahawk engineering manufacturing and development (EMD) program. Responsible for ensuring delivery of 24 units and 20 Supplier Data Requirement Lists (SDRLs). • The responsible engineer authority and the design engineer of the FOTT/SFT catadioptric reimager telescope: athermal design. stray light analysis, MTF tested• Design engineer for Tactical Tomahawks Battle Damage Indicator (BDII) telescope. Design tasks include tolerancing, athermalization, development of an assembly plan, fabrication schedule, vendor interface, stray light analysis and MTF performance verification. Show less

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  Independent Consulting

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1998

  Independent Consultant

  • Lens designer. • Projects included 10x objective, an eye piece for a heads-up display, a F/2.5 scanner and both refractive and catadioptric reimagers. • Experienced in visible through longwave infrared designs, plastic optics, refractive and reflective systems, reimagers and diffractive optics.

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  Optics 1, Inc

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Optical Design Engineer

  • Setup, managed and maintained Tucson office. • Lead design engineer on nine optical design and optical engineering projects to include night vision goggles (objective and eyepiece), rifle scopes and microscope objectives. • Other projects include plastic eyepiece for toy display, low magnification-high NA apochromat microscope objective, rifle scope, HMDs and systems imaging with lasers. • Designed with visible glass, IR material and plastic material, which included binary and aspheric surfaces. Show less

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  NP Photonic

  Mar 2001 - Dec 2001

  Test Engineer

  • Setup and operated fiber optic test lab following GR-1312-CORE testing procedures.

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  Breault Research Organization

  Jan 2002 - Nov 2005

  Director of Engineering

  • Developed and implement a plan to increase department revenue. Increased revenue 60% in one year• Implemented new business using SBIRs and winning contracts over $5.0M• Managed Tactical Tomahawk Illuminator project and delivered 31 functional units. Identified and received compensation for out-of-scope development work. Justified and received additional funding to complete project. • Assumed leadership of troubled fiber luminair project. Improved customer communication and status reporting. Discovered technical issue and developed recovery plan. Successfully built and delivered 10 units. Show less

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  BIO Vigilant

  Dec 2005 - Aug 2006

  Director of Operations

  • Led engineering team to develop optical module to homogenize the output beam of a 405nm laser used for particle sizing and biological detection

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  Breault Research Organization (BRO)

  Sept 2006 - Mar 2022

  • Stressed business development by pursuing SBIR solicitations, writing proposals for large hardware deliverable projects and ensuring projects were executed within budget and on time, which increased repeat customers. • Managed the engineering department to ensure resources were allocated to customer projects, projects were done within budget, and quality processes were followed• Won and managed several large contracts (SBIR Deck Lamp, SBIR VLA, and Night Meter) which required doing system engineering, developing requirement documents, writing plans and managing external resources with contracts and service agreements. • Prioritize developing a useable quality system that accounted for the nonlinear product development process but required end of project documentation as a deliverable. Show less

  • Vice President Of Engineering

    Aug 2017 - Mar 2022

  • Director of Engineering

    Sept 2006 - Mar 2022
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  FISBA

  Mar 2022 - Aug 2023

  General Manager
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  Fink Management Engineering and Technology, LLC

  Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  Company Owner
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  Leonardo

  Dec 2023 - now

  Program Manager