About Me...

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

30 years of industrial experience with optical materials and technologies, vacuum coatings deposition, ion-beam and plasma technologies. My experience and knowledge include but not limited:

• conventional optical coating technologies (electron-beam and resistive evaporation), equipment maintenance and repair;
• DC magnetron sputtering systems with ion assistance; ion and plasma beam technologies;
• ion beam milling (super-finishing) of high quality big dimensional optical surfaces;
• special tooling, equipment and processes design, development and documenting;
• research of ion and plasma beams interaction with optical materials;
• vacuum equipment, ion sources and DC magnetrons design, maintenance and repair;
• vacuum systems calculation and design;
• coating production organization and management;
• optical quality control, QC department organization and management;
• manuals, SOPs, technical instructions writing;
• project management principles;
• personnel training and consulting;
• computer, including HTML 4.0, JavaScript, Visual Basic 6.0 (learn now), QuickField, Multilayer (Russian thin film software) and other general and special software.

My most important developments and achievements are the following:

• ion beam milling of precise optical surfaces including equipment, process mathematical model, technology;
• screen filters protective coatings Silver Shield^®, Golden Shield^®, and Platinum Shield^® for computer monitors - design and production;
• decorative color coatings for architectural glasses - design and production;
• technology of ITO transparent coatings with resistance less than 20 Ohm/sq;
• project of magnetron sputtering system for in-line optical coatings deposition;
• VECOR enterprise - Vacuum Equipment, Coatings and Optics from Russia - www.vecorus.com;
• Web site "Ion and Plasma Beams in Optical Technologies" - : home.earthlink.net/~chutko;
• VacMaster 1.0^® software for vacuum systems calculation and design.

I can work as single as in team but prefer teamwork. I have organization skills, the ability to work without supervision and a flexibility to work overtime.

I have about 30 publications including patents, technical reports, and messages at the science-technical conferences in USSR, Russia. I have been awarded the Medal of the USSR Exhibition of National Economy Achievements in 1982. SPIE and AVS member.

EMPLOYMENT

• 2002 - p/t MESH+. Moscow, Russia. Manager.

  Project " The machine for optical coatings deposition by magnetron sputtering" development. Presentation of coating equipment on market.

• 1998 - 2001 Reynard Corporation, San Clemente, CA USA, technical design engineer.

  Fulfilled the duties of QC manager and operating manager. Optical coatings - mirrors, AR, beamsplitters, etc. Resistive and electron bean evaporation. Production of linear variable ND filters for telecommunications. Developed and designed special tooling for coating chambers; coating chambers maintenance and repair; developed technology of ITO coating deposition; developed IAD technology and equipment; organized Quality Control Department and trained personnel; wrote Quality Control and coating processes Standard Operating Procedures and equipment Manuals; calculated the pumping system for a big volume vacuum chamber; specified, procured, and installed state- of-the art polishing equipment, ion source power supply, reactive gas controllers from Russia including contracts management and import license. Supervised 3 - 5 technicians; reported directly to President and CEO.

• 1994 - 1998 "Russian Shield", Moscow, Russia. Head of coating department.
Was responsible for production of PC monitors screen filters and coated architectural glasses and plastics. Developed multilayer metal-dielectric coatings for screen filters and architectural glasses. Developed, designed and manufactured ion beam sources and DC magnetrons. Projected a brand new coating chamber with three magnetron sputtering systems, ion sources, quartz crystal and optical monitoring of deposition, then organized and controlled manufacturing of two chambers, installation and start-up. These chambers usage provided 20 times increasing of production. Developed and organized two new coating departments including construction works, power, water, and compressed air communications design and construction, equipment installation and start-up works. Developed production process from raw glass to shipping including documentation (manuals, instructions, SOPs). Supervised two shifts 15 - 20 employees including two engineers and designer. Reported directly to President.
• 1993 - 1994 MBL Security Systems, Moscow, Russia, Head of manufacturing.

  Projected automotive security system assembling department.

• 1991 - 1993 Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Hydrogen Energy and Plasma Technology Institute, Moscow, Russia. Mainspecialist, head of vacuum coating department.

Developed and organized vacuum coating department including construction works. Specified, procured and installed vacuum chambers with electron-beam and resistive evaporating systems and magnetron sputtering systems. Developed Quality Control working places. Supervised 2 technicians and contract workers.

• 1977 - 1991 Central Design Bureau of Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, Russia. Leading engineer of vacuum coating department, manager of ion-beam technology group.

  R&D of ITO coating manufacturing. R&D of ion beam milling of large optical surfaces. Developed a mathematical model of ion beam milling, method of ion beam formalization, method of materials sputtering parameters measuring (patented)., method of process monitoring in-situ (patented). Designed the ion beam milling equipment. Developed a technological process of ion beam milling. Projected the automatic ion beam milling process (patented). Organized manufacturing of high precise optical surfaces and coatings with usage of ion beam technologies. Designed and produced about 20 technological ion beam sources. Created technical Manuals, Instructions, SOPs. Supervised 3 - 5 employees including 2 - 3 engineers.

• 1973 - 1977 Central Design Bureau "Astrofisica", Moscow, USSR. Engineer of laser laboratory, group of optical materials.

  Research of interaction of high power CO2 laser radiation with optical materials.

• 1970 - 1972 Serving in the Soviet Army.

  Lieutenant, senior lieutenant. Tank platoon commander.

EDUCATION

• 2002
  Saddleback College, CA, USA. On-line Course "Start Home Business".

• 2001

  Saddleback College, CA, USA. Course "Certificate in Project Management Principles".

• 1990

  Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanic and Optic, Leningrad, USSR. Supporting the thesis "Ion beam milling of precise optical surfaces". Candidate of Engineering (Ph.D.), specialties of "Optical Devices" and "Technologies of Devices Fabrication".

• 1974 - 1975
  Course "The Bases of Quantum Radiotechnics and Laser Techniques" in the Moscow Institute of Radiotechnics, Electronics and Automatics, Moscow, Russia - Certificate.

• 1965 - 1970
  Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Moscow, Russia. "Semiconductor Materials and Devices" department, specialty of "Semiconductors and Dielectrics", M.Sc., Engineer of electronic engineering.

You can download my resume as *.doc file: resume.doc

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LIST OF ARTICLES

1. V.M.Tchoutko "Application of accelerators with closed drift of electrons and extended zone of acceleration for ion-beam milling of optical elements", Vacuum Science and Technology, 1992, Vol.2, No.1, pp.42 - 47.(in Russian).
2. V.M.Tchoutko "Parameters of low energy ion sputtering of optical materials", Vacuum Science and Technology, 1991, Vol.1, No.5 - 6, pp.25 - 29. (in Russian).
3. V.M.Tchoutko "Monitoring ion sputtering processes with variable angle of ion incidence on the target surface by the quartz resonator method", Optiko-mehanicheskaya promyshlennost, 1988, No.4, pp.37 - 40. (in Russian, translated in Soviet Journal of Optical Technology, 55(4), Apr.1988).
V.M.Chutko "Analysis of the ion-beam distribution over the surface of a spherical target", Sov.J.Opt.Technol., 52(8), Aug.1985, pp.456 - 459.
5. V.M.Chutko "Monitoring ion sputtering processes by a quartz resonator method", Sov.J. Opt. Technol., 50(11), Nov.1983, pp.709 - 711.
6. V.M.Tchoutko "Function of sputtering depth distribution for the ion-beam milling of plane surfaces", Measurement and Improvement of the Quality of Surfaces and the Operational Properties of Materials and Components, Riga, RPI Press, 1982, pp.48 - 53 (in Russian).
7. V.V.Gorelik and V.M.Chutko "Use of quartz meter to measure the deposition rate of thin films for monitoring the ion-beam sputtering process", Sov.J. Opt. Technol., 52(11), Nov.1985, pp.669 - 671.
8. V.V.Gorelik, A.V.Trofimov, V.M.Tchoutko "The electrostatic analizer of ion energy for the investigation of technological plasma-ion beam parameters", Optiko-mehanicheskaya promyshlennost, 1985, No.10, pp.42 - 43. (in Russian, translated in Soviet Journal of Optical Technology, 52(10), Oct.1985).
9. V.M.Tchoutko, A.V.Trofimov "The analisis of Hall accelerator as a source of moving local influence in the sputtering processes", J. of Technical Physics, 1987, Vol.57, No.11, pp.2122 - 2125 (in Russian).
10. B.S.Kolchev, V.M.Tchoutko "The structure investigation of electron-beam evaporated ITO thin films", Inorganic materials, 1983, No.12, pp.2047 - 2051 (in Russian).
11. V.M.Chutko, B.S.Kolchev "Apparatus for monitoring the resistance of conducting optical coatings while they are being deposited in vacuum", Sov. J. Opt. Technol., 49(5), May 1982, pp.312 - 313.
12. A.V.Trofimov, V.M.Tchoutko "Ion source with the cold cathode", Review of Sci. Instruments, 1988, No.2, pp.126 - 128 (in Russian).
13. A.V.Savelyev, V.M.Tchoutko, A.K.Zimin "Application of ultrasonic milling for fabrication of the optical elements with complicated form of surface", Optiko-mehanicheskaya promyshlennost, 1986, No.1, pp.57 - 58. (in Russian, translated in Soviet Journal of Optical Technology, 53(1), Jan.1986).
14. A.A.Holodilov, R.E.Rovinsky, V.E.Rogalin, V.M.Tchoutko "The passage of impulse CO2-laser radiation through dielectric crystalls", The Thesises of IY All-Union Conference on Non-resonanse Interaction of Radiation with Matter, Leningrad, 1978, pp.321 - 322 (in Russian).
15. L.M.Gurdjian, N.A.Schepkina, V.M.Tchoutko "Diamond and diamond-like carbon coatings. The technologies, parameters and applications". Bibliography 1990 - 1991, NTC "Informtechnika", RSC "Kurchatov's Institute", Moscow, 1992, 75 p.

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