Rick is PulseTor's Chief Technical Officer, and is responsible for Electronics and Firmware Development. He has been developing hardware and software for X-ray microanalysis for over 30 years. Rick served as a developer and then as Engineering Manager for Princeton Gamma-Tech, where he introduced the first all-digital pulse processor tuned for light element performance, and developed Position Tagged Spectrometry (X-ray spectrum imaging while the beam is scanned at full electron-imaging speed). Both of these innovations received R&D 100 Awards. It was at PGT where he met Nick, who managed the Applications Laboratory while Rick was a key developer of Microanalysis software.
Rick has been granted three patents and has four more pending. His publications include a chapter on digital pulse processing with John Friel in "X-Ray Spectrometry in Electron Beam Instruments", Williams DB, Goldstein JI, and Newbury DE (eds), Plenum Press, NY 1995 pp 167-201.
Rick holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Temple University. He is an avid Go enthusiast, competing whenever and wherever possible, including Japan and Austria during this past year, and runs the Princeton University chapter of the American Go Association. When he was younger, he flew hang gliders, but now that he has young children he just walks along the mountains instead of jumping off them. He still has a photo somewhere of his glider stuck in a tree near the aptly named Wind Gap, PA.