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Paul R. Tolley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Paul R. Tolley Born 6 May 1966(1966-05-06) Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England Spouse(s) Kristin

Paul Robert Tolley (b. May 6, 1966 in Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England)[1] is a Naturalized American citizen and CEO of New York States Photonics and Micro Electronics Center of Excellence, the Infotonics technology Center. Infotonics specializes in the research, development and commercialization of MEMS and Opto MEMS products to enable entreprenuers and large business with an opportunity to develop high value manufacturing in New York, with an added mission to stimulate work force development. The Center is locate 30 miles southeast of Rochester in scenic Canandaigua, Ontario County New York.

Contents [hide] 1 Professional 2 Personal 3 Activism 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Professional Tolley earned an Industrial Electronics certificate program from HC Wilcox Technical School, Meriden, CT in 1984. [1] Then when on to earn ASME from Mitchell College, New London, CT and a BSME from Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York.

Tolley specialized in plastics work ing with such companies as Echlin, Bic, and Sunoco in various development and management engineering roles prior into optics with Opkor, OCLI, and JDSUniphase before founding Syntec Optics. It was in the optics fields were he began revolutionary advances in polymer processing techniquies to achieve 1/4 Newton fringe optics in molded plastics, specifically diffractive optics. replicating feature sizes as small as 2 microns. Though Tolley's most innovative achievement was his work in utilizing advance polymer materials to push the bounds of application and market acceptance for plastic optics. [2]

Primarily in Bio-medical diagnostics, defense and surgical imaging, Tolley had the most successful impact on Bio-metric imaging optics primarily for handheld fingerprint identification devices.[3]

He had also discovered the process for HRDT "High Refractive Diamond Turning"[1] or single point diamond turning of high temperature etherimde and ethersulfone materials. This work was rewarded with a US Patent in 2008. [4]

Though Tolley has specialized on small high precision imaging and micro optics some of his later work has been in the potential development of large platform, in excess of 50 cm, parabolic reflectors for the LED and Solar harvesting markets. [5]

At the Infotonics Center market focus continues on Green technologies ( micro energy harvesting), Opto MEMS, Bio MEMS, and Defense related development.[6] Tolley serves on the Board of Directors for Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster as well as ITC, and is a steering committee member for Optifab.

[edit] Personal Tolley and his wife, Kristin, have three children, and reside in the Greater Rochester area. He is an FAA certified pilot and 2nd Lt. in the Civil Air Patrol, in which he is a Mission Transport Pilot.

[edit] Activism Tolley has been an adamant crusader for US manufacturers and fair trade policy. In 2005 Tolley served as an advisor to the Bipartisan Senate Committee on manufacturing co-chaired by Hillary Clinton D-NY and Lindsey Graham R-SC, stating. [1]

Tolley has long campaigned that though innovation is critical, it alone cannot maintain the critical advantage needed by the U.S. to retain our stature in global policy making and peacekeeping. [2] He has continuously argued that unfair trade policy and lack of technology driven legislation has lead to an irresponsible globalization and grave national security concerns. [3] In 2003 Tolley was asked to be part of SPIE’s technical Advisory board for Homeland Security. He advocated high resolution biometric identification devices and multi spectral imaging systems could be reasonably deployed to insure port and point of entry security. [4]

[edit] Issues Koon is in favor of state presence in providing child care and job training for displaced workers, national standards for education and state-funded vouchers for private school education, and increased penalties for violent crime (including capital punishment and elimination of the statute of limitation for criminal sex cases).[8]

[edit] Legislation On March 28, 2008, Assemblyman Koon announced the passage of a bill he authored which allows for the New York State Thruway Authority to issue annual short-distance commuter permits on the Thruway in the Rochester area at no charge between interchanges and barriers in the permit area. This bill would allow those citizens who travel for work in the Rochester area to use the Thruway at reduced rates or free of charge (A7094).

Koon has sponsored various pieces of legislation.[9]

[edit] References ^Innovation and Process: critical Yin and Tang of success - Clarkson University Center for Advanced Manufacturing Processing (CAMP) keynote address May 13 2009 ^Recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Innovation in Polymer Optics Sept 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avro66 (talk • contribs) 17:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC) ^"Polymer Optics Gain Respect" Article by Paul Tolley; reprinted from Photonics Spectra, October 2003 (PDF, 805 Kb) Lauren Publishing and SPIE.org ^ Raytheon Accelerator Award August 2003 ^Patent US 7,413,689 B2 ^HRDT white paper by Paul Tolley; reprinted from SPIE 2005 Optics & Photonics Conference Proceedings, August 2005 (PDF, 681 Kb) SPIE.org ^HRDT white paper by Paul Tolley; reprinted from SPIE 2005 Optics & Photonics Conference Proceedings, August 2005 (PDF, 681 Kb) ^APOMA American precision optics manufacturers October 2001*