Jonathan Bloch
MIT PhD with a deep and broad technology background and considerable business savvy. Currently working as Chief Architect and Director of Data Analysis / Data Products at Investment Instruments.
| Headline: | Scientist |
| Groups: | Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities |
| Schools: | Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
FULL BIO
MIT PhD with a deep and broad technology background and considerable business savvy. Expertise in optical networking, chem/bio sensors, clean-tech, web-2.0 applications, project management, and emerging defense technologies. Experienced leader of multi-disciplinary cross-functional teams with a proven record of high technology product development. Talented technical writer, presenter and prolific innovator with a structured approach to complex problem solving looking for a new challenge.
Skills & Areas of Expertise
Optics, Sensors, and Hardware Development
Extensive knowledge of general optics, physics, chemistry and advanced mathematics. Deep experience with optical networking (both components and WDM systems), sensors and spectroscopy (including Hyperspectral imaging), adaptive optics, high energy lasers and atmospheric beam propagation. Basic knowledge of electronic design (including some RF), nano/micro fabrication and assembly methods (lithography, wire/flipchip bonding, MEMS, LCD)
Technical Project Management, Business, and Product Development:
All phases of the technical product development cycle for software and hardware from gathering marketing and customer requirements, to creating and executing development plan; Business plan and go-to-market strategy creation
Analysis, Simulation, Modeling, and Software Development
All types of statistical analysis, data mining and visualization; Multiple Programming languages and frameworks including Ruby, Rails, Javascript/AJAX, and SQL; Analysis environments (Excel, IgorPro, IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, Mathcad, Labview); System platforms (MacOS, Windows, DOS, VMS, and Linux); Microsoft Office, Project and PowerPoint. Experience with weapons systems simulations (target acquisition, tracking, and classification)
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Investment Instruments, Newtown, MA and Providence, RI |
| Position: | Chief Architect and Director of Data Analysis / Data Products |
| Time period: | August 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Defined software architecture and led development for database-backed web site (rentometer.com) for startup focusing on delivering online services to small landlords and their tenants.
• Developed new methods for analyzing and efficiently managing a large geographic data set and created multiple revenue-generating data “products”. |
| Employer: | GlaXton, Boston, MA and Providence, RI |
| Position: | Consultant and Technologist |
| Time period: | August 2005 - August 2007 |
| Description: | • Functioned as hands-on seed-stage venture capitalist. Developed and researched business concepts, analyzed markets and developed product-models, built prototypes, and secured financing for early-stage technology start-ups. Conceived and developed initial product prototype for web 2.0 startup (patent pending). |
| Employer: | Digital Light Circuits, Providence, RI |
| Position: | Director of Systems Engineering, VP of Business Development |
| Time period: | August 2003 - August 2005 |
| Description: | • Team-member (and founder) of venture-funded start-up company developing very low-cost optical waveguide devices based on patented Binary Super Grating technology.
• Wrote detailed engineering and marketing specifications for initial products. Developed (and vetted) marketpenetration model, formulated go-to-market strategy, spearheaded marketing and business development. • Found novel low-cost solutions to device assembly problems. Developed a suite of waveguide design and data analysis software programs, significantly reducing the time required for device layout. |
| Employer: | Small high technology companies |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | July 2002 - July 2003 |
| Description: | • Helped small high technology companies develop better optical components for telecommunication networks. Created detailed assessments of current market conditions. Provided comprehensive analyses of competitors products and prospects. Advised companies on product positioning, pricing, testing, and qualification. Recommended future product development strategies to meet forecasted customer needs. |
| Employer: | Sycamore Networks, Chelmsford, MA |
| Position: | Senior Optical Engineer, Optical Transport Division |
| Time period: | January 2001 - June 2002 |
| Description: | • Led network-wide dynamic OSNR equalization effort. Managed all aspects of project and directed multidisciplinary team of software, hardware, mechanical and electrical engineers.
• Solved longstanding problems with network monitoring card by conceiving and implementing innovative software and hardware solutions. Significantly improved the accuracy and range of OSNR monitors. • Developed software requirements for vendors and for internals groups. Wrote comprehensive optical specifications for new components and created project plans, manufacturing testing and release requirements. |
| Employer: | MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| Position: | Member of Technical Staff, Laser and Sensor Applications Group |
| Time period: | January 1996 - December 2001 |
| Description: | • Spearheaded analysis effort supporting Air Force’s Airborne Laser (ABL) program. Created new analysis method, which enabled the ABL to receive $1.3 B in follow-on funding. Received 2 Air Force awards.
• Co-managed complex adaptive optics field experiments over 5.5 km range using 1 m telescope. Reduced optical alignment time from ~ 1 hour to ~10 minutes. • Led environmental monitoring project, managing joint Lincoln-MIT campus design team and field experiments. Studied underground fuel-oil contamination on Air Force Base and made first in-situ observation of Benzene in soil using down-hole UV laser. Published cover article on field trial and method. • Co-conceived, developed, and obtained internal funding for microchip laser project. Made first demonstration of laser-based elemental analysis without temporal or spatial gating using a short-lived (<10 nsec) plasma. • Led laser vibrometry field experiments, using dual-beam heterodyne C02 laser system. Made shot-noise limited measurements of remote (200 m) vibrating targets, leading to $2 M/year fiber-based follow-on project. • Contributed to design of next generation biowarfare agent detectors. Studied Anthrax ‘simulants’ and background clutter. Created new concepts for building defense and explosive detection devices. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1996 |
| Degree: | Physical Chemistry, PhD |
| University: | Cornell University |
| Time period: | 1989 |
| Degree: | Chemistry, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Published twelve peer-reviewed articles, delivered numerous conference and meeting presentations. |
| Patents: | Multiple patents |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Skilled poker player, avid skier, and ultimate (Frisbee) enthusiast |
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Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .