I bring over 30 years of experience in the business to the table –experience in laboratory instruments, portable and handheld analyzers, start-up and mature companies.
My Experience
My experience spans laboratory instruments, to miniature instruments enabled by photonics and MEMS.
The miniature instruments can be portable, handheld, or used in process applications, for instance in high vibration environments.
Portable and handheld instruments must provide results, not data, because they will be used largely by non-scientists.
Laboratory
Development of cost-effective and versatile benchtop FT-IR
Development of infrared microscope accessory, designed for spectroscopic imaging
N. A. Wright, R. A. Crocombe, and D. L. Drapcho, “FT-IR imaging instrumentation: From remote sensing to the analytical laboratory”, in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy: Twelfth International Conference, Koichi Itoh and Mitsuo Tasumi, Editors, Waseda University Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1999, pp289-290.
Development of step-scan FT-IR applications
David L. Drapcho, Raul Curbelo, Eric Y. Jiang, Richard A. Crocombe and William J. McCarthy, “Digital Signal Processing for Step-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared Photoacoustic Spectroscopy”, Appl. Spectrosc., 51, 453-460 (1997).
Instrument Development Team (1997)
Imaging
Commercialization of FT-IR spectroscopic imaging using two-dimensional MCT array detectors
Development of a fast readout (1700 fps) 128 x 128 MCT camera
J. Sellors, R. A. Crocombe, R. A. Hoult and N. A. Wright , “FT-IR Imaging Hardware” in Raman, Infrared, and Near-Infrared Chemical Imaging, Slobodan Sasic and Yukihiro Ozaki, Editors, John Wiley, September 2010.
128 x 128 MCT array with high-speed readout
Portable
"Torion” Field GC/MS
www.perkinelmer.com/product/torion-t-9-portable-gc-ms-instrument-ntsst090500
Integration, business plans, distribution, development programs, strategy, OEM relationships
My picture using a mid-infrared camera
Handheld
Near-infrared, XRF, Raman, FT-IR
Development programs, business plans, acquisition, integration, strategy, business development, OEM agreements, vendor management, cost reduction
Handheld Elemental Analysis
Miniature
Market development for MEMS photonics
Key account development
OEM relationships
Field research
Go-to-market model
Handheld instrument development and applications
Technology evangelist
Photonics and MEMS
MEMS Fabry-Perot, SLEDs and broadband gain media, miniature optics, LIGA, grating light valves, Hadamard engines, etc.
Richard A. Crocombe, Dale C. Flanders and Walid Atia, “ Micro-optical instrumentation for process spectroscopy”, in “Lab-on-a-Chip: Platforms, Devices and Applications, edited by Linda A. Smith, Daniel Sobek, Proceedings of SPIE, 5591, 11-25 (2004).
Process Analytical
Key account management
Business, instrument and applications development
Richard A. Crocombe, “MEMS technology moves process spectroscopy into a new dimension”, Spectroscopy Europe, June 2004,16-19.
Richard A. Crocombe, “A New Breed of Process Instrumentation”, American Laboratory, August 2004, 42-46.
Deploying miniature photonics-based instrumentation into pharmaceutical manufacturing
Jill Parris, Christian Airau, Richard Escott, James Rydzak and Richard Crocombe, “Monitoring API Drying with NIR,” Spectroscopy, April 2005
Flowchart for building chemometric models