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Blog: Inside the World of Venture Capital
Larry's VC View is the bi-weekly blog of successful serial entrepreneur and engineer turned Venture Capitalist, Dr. Larry Marshall. Larry shares the lessons he learned while transitioning from founding technology firms to funding them.For and about technology entrepreneurs seeking venture funding for start-ups in photonics, optics, bio-optics, biotechnology, and more.
Blog: Working Smart In Photonics
Working Smart in Photonics, the blog by photonics industry expert Sarah Diggs, focuses on the technical skills needed by engineers, researchers, and technicians in photonics. Sarah brings more than two decades of experience with lasers, optics, alignment, and other topics to play in her discussions, which encompass both "book learning" and the knowledge that only arises from years of practice.
Sarah is a leading authority on technical training and process improvement for the photonics industry. She has successfully developed and launched technical training courses and certification programs for the photonics industry since 1999 and her Laser Technology Series program currently has more than 10,000 corporate trainees on-course via corporate intranet learning systems. Some of her clients include Spectra-Physics, Coherent, KLA-Tencor, Carl Zeiss Meditec, JDS Uniphase, Lightwave Electronics, SPIE, NASA, The Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman, Wylie Labs, Canesta, Rockwell Collins, the USMC, and the USAF.
Sarah began her career in 1986 as a co-op student working in the Solid State Laser Materials Lab at the NASA Langley Research Center, where she was part of the team that developed titanium-doped sapphire as a laser medium. She has also held research and management positions at The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), where she worked at Brooks Air Force base on eye-damage studies and laser-eyewear development, and Lightwave Electronics as a manufacturing supervisor of diode-pumped solid state lasers. In 1999, Sarah started a training company to help Silicon Valley laser manufacturers train their technical workforces in the fundamentals of lasers and optics, including optics inspection, handling, and cleaning, optical alignment, and geometric optics. Her newest venture is a consulting firm that helps photonics companies improve their bottom lines through corporate audits of critical processes and implementing in-house certification programs.
Sarah received degrees in applied physics from Old Dominion University (Hampton, VA) and the University of Texas (San Antonio, TX), and in philosophy from DePaul University (Chicago, IL). Sarah is also a CAT I and CAT II certified laser safety officer.
