Photos of MKS-Newport Construction Plates

I'm an optical engineer with a practical, hands-on approach to optics. I've worked in applied optics for a long time, in industry, in academic environments, and at several major astronomical observatories. My work experience includes: equipment design, fabrication, integration, calibration, and documentation. My strongest areas of expertise are in creating new instrumentation for large telescopes, optics manufacturing, and doing on-site optical alignment and tooling work. I also worked as a manufacturing engineer. I now own a consulting company, "Distasio Optical Documentation". We provide website content management and create technical documents related to optical systems. I write technical documents about telescopes and other optical equipment. I'm currently writing a non-fiction book and also developing new optical tooling equipment.