Executive Team

Jeff Miller, President and CEO is one of the original Micron Optics team members, joining as the Vice President of Engineering and Production in December 1990. He became Vice President of Process Development and New Product Introduction in October 2000 and President and CEO in June 2002. Prior to Micron Optics, Mr. Miller worked at Fitel General and AT&T Bell Labs. Mr. Miller has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University. He holds 14 patents and has 16 technical papers published.

Andrei Csipkes, Executive Vice President and COO has been chief officer at Micron Optics since October 2000. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Csipkes served at Ciena Corporation as Director of Manufacturing Technologies and later as Vice President, Operations Engineering. Mr. Csipkes started his career in 1991 at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked as Development Engineer (MTS) and later as Group Leader. Mr. Csipkes holds a BS and M.S. in Electrical Engineering as well as a M.S. in Management Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Csipkes has been awarded 36 patents and another 12 are in progress.

Kevin Hsu, Vice President of Research and Technology served as Micron Optics' Vice President of R&T since January 1999. Before that he served as Micron Optics' Director of Research and Development since February 1992. Prior to his time at Micron Optics, Dr. Hsu worked at the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories. Dr. Hsu received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has generated 66 technical publications and has been awarded 15 patents.

Todd Haber, Director of Product Development joined Micron Optics in 1998 as a Member of the Research and Development staff. While at Micron Optics, Mr. Haber has also served as Lead Test and Measurement Engineer, and Technical Manager of the Instrument Development Group. Mr. Haber has a BSEE and an Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Haber has published in peer reviewed technical journals and holds multiple US patents.

Ann Vining, Vice President of Administration has served as Vice President of Administration since January 1998. While Ms. Vining has worked at Micron Optics since its inception, she joined the company full time in January 1991 as Vice President. Prior to Micron Optics, she worked with The Championship Group as an administrator. Ms. Vining started her career at O.D. Resources working with Darryl Conner in organizational development. She attended Georgia State University.

Sales Team

Tom Graver, Director, Optical Sensing Group joined Micron Optics in January 2001 to grow Micron Optics' optical sensing business. Prior to joining Micron Optics, Mr. Graver served as Director of Operations and Senior Research Engineer for the Manufacturing Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Graver holds degrees in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and management.

Clyde Story, Project Manager, Telecom Group joined Micron Optics in January 2004. Prior to joining Micron Optics, Mr. Story had an extensive 21 year career with Western Electric, AT&T, and Lucent technologies as a Manufacturing Engineer, Technical Manager and Technical Sales Support Manager for the Fiber Optics, Cable and Apparatus business units. Mr. Story has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Management of Technology from the National Technological University (a joint venture with Lehigh University).

Scott Varney, Sales, Sensing Group joined Micron Optics in January 2001. For 9 years prior to joining Micron Optics, Mr. Varney was Co-owner and a Sr. Producer/Engineer of Varney Communications, primarily involved with industrial, conference and television production. Mr. Varney has an extensive background in various fields focusing on sales, customer service, project management, production, manufacturing, marketing and design.