We provide creative design and consulting services to innovative companies around the world – from one-person startups to Fortune 500 corporations. Our primary focus is optical system design for the consumer and life science industries.
Founder & Optical Designer/Engineer
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Founder & Optical Designer/Engineer
Scott is a lens designer and an optical engineer. He spent much of his career at Corning Precision Lens, Eastman Kodak Company, and Jenoptik working on a wide variety of projects including mobile phone cameras, biomedical instruments, 3-D machine vision systems, consumer and professional-grade projectors, motion picture film scanners, heads-up & near-eye displays, and film & digital cameras, among others.
In late 2007, Scott formed Moondog Optics, Inc., an optical/mechanical design house serving small and large companies around the world. In that time, he has been a key contributor to projects which were featured in Nature, listed as a “Must-Have Product” in Popular Science, and honored as one of the “50 Best Inventions of the Year” by Time. He regularly serves on professional committees, including the most recent International Optical Design Conference. He is a named inventor on about 20 patents, with several others pending.
Vice President
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Vice President
John joined Moondog Optics in January 2013. Since joining Moondog, he has worked extensively on optics for consumer electronics and biomedical applications. For several years prior to joining Moondog Optics, John was vice president for optical engineering at DigitalOptics Corporation (Tessera Technologies) and held technical management positions at VistaPoint Technology (Flextronics International). At these companies, he managed global optical engineering teams and worked extensively with lens suppliers to deliver cameras and lenses for very high volume consumer electronic products. From 1996 to 2006, John managed the optical and opto-mechanical design group at Eastman Kodak and before that he worked for many years as an optical engineer at Kodak. John has done engineering for over three decades and holds about 20 patents related to optical design and optical technology. John’s engineering work has spanned optical parts with diameters from 150 um to 4 meters fabricated from glass, plastic, metal, ceramic, photo-resist, and liquid materials.
Director of Engineering
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Director of Engineering
Heidi joined Moondog Optics in January 2014. Prior to Moondog Optics, Heidi was Senior Engineering Manager at DigitalOptics (Tessera Technologies) and Director of Optics / Senior Staff Optical Engineer at VistaPoint Technology (Flextronics International). In those roles, she was responsible for camera module and lens development for very high volume consumer electronics products. Prior to that, she was with Jenoptik, Carestream Health, and Eastman Kodak in senior engineering roles developing imaging and non-imaging systems for medical devices and consumer products.
Heidi has particular expertise in extending the capabilities of Zemax OpticStudio through macros and external programs to enable custom and complex system analysis. She brings illumination design and stray light analysis expertise to our capabilities. In addition to her design and engineering activities, Heidi also manages Moondog’s newly established testing service, including our Trioptics ImageMaster Pro 4 for MTF measurements.
Principal Optical Engineer
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Principal Optical Engineer
Brad joined Moondog Optics in October 2020. Prior to Moondog Optics Brad was the Projector Team Lead at Magic Leap and Director of Optical Engineering at Akonia Holographics. In those roles, Brad was lens designer and architect of novel optical systems used for augmented reality headsets and holographic data storage. Brad’s collaborations with these two startups lead to 12 patents. Brad’s 40+ papers and patents bear witness to the fun collaborations he’s had throughout his career. Brad has designed HMD’s, projectors, computational cameras, scanners, rifle scopes, 3D metrology systems, toys, and space optics.
In addition to design innovation, Brad has specific expertise in error budgeting, manufacturability improvements, test, and active alignment that he gained while in optics manufacturing at Polaroid. He’ll never forget those formative experiences in the factory and he introduces manufacturing considerations early in his lens designs.
Senior Opto-Mechanical Designer
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Senior Opto-Mechanical Designer
Mark joined Moondog Optics in February 2012. Prior to Moondog, Mark was with Eastman Kodak and Carestream Health in senior and lead design roles for a very wide variety of systems.
Mark’s early work included design for consumer cameras, scanners, projectors, and LED print engines. A few of Mark’s more recent projects include a 3D viewer for use in the O.R. during laparoscopic surgery, a structured light dental camera, multi-spectral illumination sources used in molecular imaging, autostereoscopic 3D projection systems including immersive display with infrared eye tracking and head-mounted systems, and polarization-based 3D laser cinema projectors.
Mark has particular expertise in mechanism design, industrial design, and creative problem-solving, and is a key contributor to many of our consumer and biomedical projects. He holds 25 patents with others pending.
Opto-Mechanical Designer
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Opto-Mechanical Designer
Pete joined Moondog Optics as an Opto-Mechanical Designer in October 2016. Pete’s love of photography and photographic technology, and his desire to focus his design creativity in this area led him to Moondog. He’s thrilled to use his extensive mechanical engineering background in the field that he is passionate about.
Before assuming this role, he worked at Powerhouse Technology, where he was the lead Mechanical Design Engineer as well as an overseas liaison for product manufacture. Prior to that, Pete worked at TE Connectivity, (formally Tyco Electronics), as a Mechanical Design Engineer. Here, he custom-designed molded interconnect devices, (MID), for telecommunications, medical, automotive, industrial and consumer electronics applications. Before working at TE, Pete gained expert knowledge in single and multi-shot injection molding as well as manufacturing processes as a Design Engineer for Accede Mold & Tool.
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