Bryan Auz

Orlando, Florida Area · me@bryanauz.com

Mechanical engineer by day, software and electrical engineer by night.


About Me

I'm B-ry. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, Bauz, or Bryan Auz if you're not into the whole brevity thing. My formal education is in mechanical engineering and the vast majority of my professional experience follows that path. I started my career with optics and was lucky to fall into something I am so passionate about early on in my career. I confirmed that passion by trying something new, plastic injection molding process engineering, when I left my first job. I quickly realized I did actually enjoy the world of optics and more importantly that the design side of engineering was where I belonged. Manufacturing engineering has its place and the knowledge gained from that experience was extremely valuable but I've found my way back to designing for now. As my career progresses I've found that the crossover points between different engineering disciplines intrigues me. I'll always be learning but now very much enjoy giving of myself as I interact with other bright eyed young engineers not unlike myself years ago.

Somewhere along the way I met some awesome people who opened me up to the world of electronics and software. I was accustomed to the long lead times associated with mechanical parts and as soon as I got the taste of immediacy from compiling code, breadboarding a circuit, or uploading new firmware - I was hooked. Ever since I have been soaking up all of the knowledge I can and have developed quite the hobby of learning new coding languages, circuits, microcontroller platforms, linux distributions, web and email servers, cloud platforms, etc... I am having a blast!

Outside of my career I enjoy working with my hands and fixing things. I spend time working on my e46 m3, building toys for my daughter, 3d printing anything her mind can come up with, and fulfilling the never ending honey do list from my beautiful wife. Speaking of my wife, we have been married since 2016 and have a little girl. I am beyond excited to be a dad and cherish every day I get to watch my daughter grow and learn!


Education

SPIE

Basic Optics for Engineers
April 2022
Practical Optical System Design
April 2022
Testing and Evaluation of EO Imaging Systems
April 2018
Introduction to Optomechanical Design
January 2017

RJG

Systematic Molding Course
April 2013

University of Central Florida

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
  • Introduction to Optical Engineering Elective
May 2010

Saint Thomas Aquinas High School

Honors Graduate
May 2005

Experience

Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer

Wasatch Photonics

Opto-mechanical design for Raman spectroscopic systems.

January 2022 - Present

Mechanical Design Engineer IV

Teledyne FLIR

Opto-mechanical design for EO/IR systems.

March 2018 - January 2022

Mechanical Engineer III

FLIR Systems Contractor

Opto-mechanical design for EO/IR systems.

October 2017 - March 2018

Mechanical Engineer

Ocean Optics

Opto-mechanical design of light spectrometers and systems.

January 2015 - October 2017

Associate Manufacturing Engineer

Covidien (Medtronic)

Plastic injection molding process engineering.

December 2012 - January 2015

Mechanical Engineer

Lightpath Technologies

Opto-mechanical tooling design for glass molded optics.

December 2009 - December 2012

Skills

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Programming Languages & Frameworks

Development Tools & Software

Hardware Platforms & Operating Systems

Engineering Software & Miscellaneous
  • PTC Creo • Solidworks • Solidworks Simulation • Altair Inspire • EPDM • CURA • Eiger • Diadem
  • Solidworks PCB (Altium Designer) • Putty • WinSCP • FileZilla • Falstad Circuit Simulator • FEMM
  • Visual Studio Code • Notepad++ • Sublime Text 3 • Eclipse • Arduino IDE • Netbeans • PSOC Creator
  • Dovecot • Postfix • Samba • Owncloud • SVN • VirtualBox • Photoshop • Illustrator • Gimp

Publications

SPIE

Design considerations and manufacturing limitations of Insert Precision Glass Molding (IPGM)
  • Alan Symmons
2012
Miniature Raman Spectroscopy utilizing stabilized diode lasers and 2D CMOS detector arrays
  • Joseph Bonvallet, John D. Rodriguez, Ty Olmstead
2017
A spectroscopic method of determining color of petroleum products using CIELab color space with LED illumination
  • John D. Rodriguez, Matthew Comstock, Ty Olmstead
2017
Miniature Raman spectrometer development
  • Joseph Bonvallet, John D. Rodriguez, Ty Olmstead
2018

USPTO

US D841,499 In-line Filter Holder
  • Jonathan Drewes
Feb 26, 2019

Personal Projects