ABOUT
Z-Tech is a consulting business specializing in project/program management, business development, intellectual property management and opto-mechanical engineering.
As a Program Management Consultant I managed the successful development, delivery and demonstration of a rapid DNA analyzer-on-a-chip system for forensic biometrics applications under contract to Microlab Diagnostics, a UVA/Lockheed venture, and the IP development of an IED neutralization technology through patent application. Additionally, I performed an on-orbit, root cause analysis of the ISS CATS instrument for NASA GSFC to determine instrument failure causality and potential ISS safety impacts. I also led an R&D effort for a Boeing Phantom Works contract to develop an intrinsically safe, fiber optic, fuel sensor for a high priority military aircraft utilizing polymer optical waveguide technologies.
William Ziegler
Founder
Mr. Ziegler is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over twenty years of management experience. He has excellent strategy, communications, computer and organizational skills and is a member of Federal Laboratories Consortium Forum Planning Committee and a Towson University Philanthropist.
His management experience includes hardware, software and webpage development for government and commercial entities in the United States and abroad. His business development experience includes proposal authoring and team building to meet contract requirements.
Mr. Ziegler's product and technology development experience includes: aerospace flight hardware engineering, optical data storage technology R&D, secure online storage networks, remote sensing, robotic actuation systems, optical fiber handling systems, fiber optic sensing and control, fiber and free space optical communications and imaging technologies, fly-by-light and GPS denied systems architectures.
Ron Smith
Chief Scientist
Mr. Smith has extensive experience developing optical aerospace subsystems, including; concept for Through-the-Air Link Component (TALOC) optical aircraft tracking and communications system, manufacturing equipment for optical fiber gyro coil winding, optical absolute position and absolute angle encoder technology, broad band optical fiber communications technology and optical fiber solutions for tethered vehicle communication. Prior employment includes: Optelecom-NKF, Germantown, MD – Director of Electro-Optic Systems, leading support of Fly-by-light program for USAF Wright Patterson and manufacturing optical fiber gyro coils; Bethesda Research Laboratories, Gaithersburg, MD, Product Development Engineer; Coherent, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, Optical Engineer; Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, Technical Staff Member. Mr. Smith is a recipient of the Pride @ Boeing Award, May 2005, recognizing Fly-by-light technology advances. He has 10 issued patents covering a wide range of technology innovation.