david james

head of operations

About

Experienced in printed, flexible, and organic opto-electronic devices. Background in understanding fundamental structure-property relationships of thin films and devices (e.g. organic solar cells, transistors, light-emitting diodes), through to scale-up and product development.

Country

united states

City

atlanta

Industry

research

Skill

organic electronics, thin films, conference presentations, technical writing, computational modeling, r&d, instrumentation, materials science, spectroscopy, research, characterization, project coordination, raman spectroscopy, matlab, raman, experimental physics, labview, latex, science, c++, numerical simulation, afm, data analysis, materials, technical illustration, scanning probe microscopy, magnetics, algorithms, physics, nanomaterials, electronics, organic chemistry, evaporation, semiconductors, solid state physics, numerical analysis, semiconductor device, optics, clean rooms, optical microscopy, optoelectronics, mathematica, python, programming, analysis, plasma physics, solar cells, nanotechnology, photovoltaics

Experience

head of operations

visor - tax advisor

2016-10 - Present · 10 yrs

technology and operations manager

fileit

2015-10 - 2016-10 · 1 yr 1 mo

Designed, implemented, and managed the technology infrastructure to support the growth of the early-stage startup -Implemented automation and business processes to increase operational efficiency to scale the business -Managed sales & marketing in Year 2; delivered 500% year-on-year growth in client base

freelance academic editor

cactus communications

2013-7 - 2014-2 · 8 mos

Editing technical and scientific articles for submission to leading peer-review journals

summer intern

dstl

2005-7 - 2005-10 · 4 mos

* Missiles and Countermeasures Summer Project at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. * Developed testing tools for RF equipment modules using LabVIEW * Developed data acquisition and logging applications for aircraft equipment modules using C++

senior scientist

csem brasil

2015-5 - 2015-10 · 6 mos

* Team leader for device physics and characterisation * Managing lifetime and stability testing of roll-to-roll printed organic photovoltaic modules * Development of novel processes for printed electronics (e.g. transparent conducting films) * Mentor for device fabrication and characterisation

r and d scientist

csem brasil

2013-8 - 2015-4 · 1 yr 9 mos

Device physics, fabrication, and characterisation of flexible organic solar cells (OPV) for lab-to-fab -Team leader characterisation and lifetime of R2R printed OPV modules (accelerated ageing, stability testing, failure analysis)

researcher

imperial college london

2008-9 - 2012-9 · 4 yrs 1 mo

* Fabrication & characterisation of organic semiconductor devices, e.g. thin-film transistors (OTFT) and photovoltaics (OPV) * Simulation and experiment to probe structure-property relationships * Development of a new solution-processing technique to grow aligned organic crystals for OTFTs * Development of a polarised spectroscopy technique to probe molecular orientation in OTFTs * Training and management of lab equipment

research intern

universidad de sevilla

2007-7 - 2007-9 · 3 mos

Leonardo daVinci Summer Internship at the Centre for Research Technology and Innovation of the University of Seville. Topic: Synthesis and characterisation of novel materials for the safe disposal of nuclear waste.

research assistant

cea - commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

2006-1 - 2006-5 · 5 mos

Masters research project in the Nanostructures and Magnetism Laboratory at CEA Grenoble under the direction of Dr Robert Morel. Topic: Investigating magnetic nanoparticles for high-density magnetic storage.

Education

physics

2001-1 - 2003-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Activities and Societies: Head Boy

english

1999-1 - 2001-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

dyson school of design engineering

physics

2003-1 - 2007-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Activities and Societies: ERASMUS Exchange (France), Language Club (French, Spanish, Arabic), LGBT Committee, IC Choir

institut polytechnique de grenoble

physics

2005-1 - 2006-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

dyson school of design engineering

philosophy

2008-1 - 2012-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Val O'Donoghue Scholarship in Natural Sciences, 2008-2012 Cambridge Display Technology Ltd. CASE Studentship, 2008-2011 Thesis titled "Developing Structural Probes for Designed Molecular Architectures", 2012 Presented at a number of internal and external (international) seminars and conferences Activities and Societies: Student Social Committee Member (Event Organiser), Student Representative to the Physics Teaching Committee, Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant (Disability Support), German for Beginners course (evening classes), Arabic for Beginners course (evening classes)