Randal Chinnock

Founder/CEO

Mr. Chinnock commercializes technologies that use light to diagnose and treat disease. He has been involved with scores of medical devices and laboratory instruments that sense, image, irradiate, or analyze organs, tissues, or body fluids. Recent examples include an ophthalmic instrument for measuring refractive error of the eye, an LED illuminator for cancer drug activation, a disposable endoscope for viewing inside body cavities, an optical scanning system for fitting hearing aids, and a laser system for treating gum disease.

As CEO of Optimum Technologies, Inc. since its founding in 1994, Mr. Chinnock has worked with companies of all sizes on the development and commercialization of light-based devices. His 30+ years of experience include engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and general management positions at several companies engaged in electro-optical devices and systems, including Varian, United Detector Technologies, Smith & Nephew, and Henke Sass Wolf of America. In addition to its engineering and production services, his company is currently developing its own proprietary retinal imaging technology for screening for diabetic retinopathy under funding from the National Institutes of Health.

He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado and studied Mechanics and Materials Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Fred Bargoot

Vice President of Research and Development

Fred holds a Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Florida State University. He has over 30 years of experience successfully developing and managing the development of products, from concept through production and post-launch support, for medical device, industrial, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics, food and dairy markets.

Fred has been a manager and individual contributor at large companies that include Millipore Corporation, Applied Biosystems, and DAKO; as well as small companies and startups such as Advanced Instruments, Inc., Medica Corp., and Boston Probes, Inc. Products include automated analytical instrumentation employing fluorescence, luminescence, absorbance, and surface plasmon resonance modalities, with associated consumables and disposables. Fred has direct experience with fiberoptics, spectroscopic components and applications, CCD-based low light level image acquisition systems, and image analysis using Media Cybernetics software.

Prior to joining industry, Fred was a NIH Post Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at Unversity of Pennsylvania Medical School, and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Physiology at Boston University School of Medicine.

Fred manages technology development and for OTI, and serves as Principal Investigator for SBIR programs under the NIH.

For fun Fred likes to play with his grandson and cook for the family.

George Grubner

Principal Electrical Engineer

George is a graduate of Harvard University and has a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a M.B.A. from Babson College. He has over 30 years of experience with the design, development and production of electronic instrumentation systems that encompassed hardware, electronics, firmware, and control architecture. For instrumentation firms that include Galileo and Keithley Metrabyte, he has provided engineering, product development and management expertise in the medical device, laboratory and pharmaceutical sectors. His design experience includes a line of robotic workstations for pharmaceutical processes, a fluidic dispensing system, a DNA hybridization cassette, a microplate control system, electron multiplier detectors, data acquisition systems, a medical laser system, and a blood analyzer system.

For fun George enjoys travel and working around his home.

Jay P. Julian

Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer

Jay P. Julian received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in design from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has over 10 years experience in Opto-Mechanical Engineering, system design, and project management. He has extensive knowledge in spectrometer design and was the lead contributing inventor to a recently awarded patent for a Retro-reflective Concentric High Dispersion Multi-Range Raman Spectrometer. He has extensive experience in the system design and manufacturing of diffraction grating spectral modules, diode array spectrometers, and concentric hyperspectral imagers. He has also been responsible for manufacturing engineering roles in an ISO certified factory. He has extensive CAD knowledge in several packages having served as a CAD manager. He has been formally trained on Solidworks, and a user since 1999. Other formal training includes Trace Pro, Precision Mounting of Optical Components, Optical Testing, and Optical Alignment Mechanisms.

For fun Jay enjoys getting outside.

John Langer

Senior Mechanical Engineer

John received his B.S.M.E. from Southeastern Massachusetts University and an M.B.A. from Nichols College. He has over 30 years of experience in the design, fabrication, assembly, and tuning of machinery and mechanical devices. His positions have included Senior Engineer at defense systems manufacturer Raytheon Company, principal of mechanical engineering services company Syntram, Automation and Tooling Manager at manufacturing automation company Kenney Manufacturing, Vice President of Operations at factory automation company Advanced Digital Motion, and Principal Engineer at optics manufacturing company Essilor. Mr. Langer is expert in CAD and FEA (stress and thermal analysis) and is a Certified SolidWorks Professional.

For fun John likes to get out on his sailboat.

Sarah Fredette

Biomedical/Electrical Engineer

Sarah received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on Bioinstrumentation and Biosensors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She received formal training in the modeling of biological systems in Matlab and LabView. Her senior project involved the use of multiple sensors to continuously monitor the energy expenditure of diabetic patients for closed-loop feedback to an insulin pump. At WPI she also worked on a low cost LED based vein finder, a piezoelectric based respiration monitor and infant sleep anea monitors. At OTI, she has been a key participant in projects involving robotic imaging systems, a covert bar code reader, an infant feeding training system, and a visualized endotracheal system.

For fun Sarah enjoys spinning wool, knitting and baking.

Jason DeBoer

Biomedical/Electrical Engineer

Jason received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on Signal Processing and Medical Instrumentation from Boston University. His senior project involved working with bioinformatics and genes linked to schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

Mr. DeBoer has worked on invivo optical tissue sensing, medical spectroscopy and medical imaging technologies. He has received formal training in modeling electrical and biological systems in Matlab, as well as successfully completing projects related to modeling and investigating patterns in neurodegenerative disease.

For fun Jason likes to watch or play sports.

Paul White

Sales Manager

Paul received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and a M.B.A. from Manchester Business School, England. He has 20 years of sales and marketing experience. Before coming to Optimum Technologies, Inc., he was the Sales and Business Development Manager of a Services Provider firm in the Drug Discovery Sector. His earlier roles have included Sales Manager for SAP software, Director of Sales at an IT services start-up firm, and Sales and Marketing Manager of a UK firm in the electronics sector, where he led the global launch of a new product. He has also provided marketing consulting in the analytical instrumentation and industrial automation sectors. In addition, he has five years of electronic engineering experience in instrumentation systems.

For fun Paul enjoys hiking in places of historical, geographic or cultural significance, preferably in rain, and particularly where map and compass are needed.

Sally Chinnock

Office Manager

Sally Chinnock received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She worked as a computer programmer/analyst for over 20 years. She has worked as an office manager for the past eight years.

For fun Sally enjoys cooking for friends and family, gardening, hiking and seeing new sites.