Our Management Team

 

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Dr. Arlen Barksdale, CEO

Dr. Barksdale has over 28 years of industry experience in solid state materials, hardware and software technology including such companies as Texas Instruments, Ling-Temco-Vought, Bell Helicopter-Textron, and Hytec Engineering. He has worked extensively in avionics integration, radar absorbing materials and software modeling.  At TI he was instrumental in developing swirl-free, high purity silicon for the first 4K RAM chip that launched the PC industry. An early developer of LED and LCD displays, he developed the technique and government permits to mass-produce tritium (radioactive H3) backlights for the LCD watch. Dr. Barksdale has taught (Dean- Emiritus, National University) and directed research in software engineering, telecommunications, photonic crystals, computer generated holography, femtosec laser nanomachining, and optical computing logic. His inventions consist primarily of high frequency and photonic related developments. A veteran of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, he was a member of the Intelligence Corps (Russian language translator, cryptographic and electronics). Dr. Barksdale has a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Rice University in 1973. He has been recognized as a AEC Special Fellow, a Welch Foundation Fellow and a National Science Foundation Fellow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Dr. Clark Guest, Chief Technical Officer

Dr. Guest serves as the company Director of Federal Research Programs and company strategic alliance coordinator with the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He concurrently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at UCSD where he holds a tenured position teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of optics, computer interfacing, digital electronics, and engineering project management. Dr.Guest has led research efforts in optical interconnects, computer vision, and goal-oriented systems and has published over 70 conference and journal papers. Dr. Guest lead a team of 20 optical networks engineers to bring All Optical Network's first product from concept to working product. Dr. Guest was responsible for the system architecture and optical design of fiberoptic wavelength-electronics, computer hardware and software, and mechanical engineering efforts. He has provided consulting services for TRW, Scientific Atlanta, TACAN, Battle, Qualcomm, and CyberDyne. Dr. Guest is a Qualcomm certified CDMA technology instructor, and served as a Scientist for the U.S. Army Missile Command, Huntsville, Alabama. He has served as an instructor in course studies for SPIE, OSA, and IEEE. Dr. Guest holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.E.E. and B.S. from Rice University. Dr. Guest is a member of the Optical Society of America, Society of Photo-optic Instrumentation Engineers, and Past President of the Optical Society of San Diego.