Mark Lucas

Mark Lucas has held various engineering positions in the past three decades. In 1991, they began their career as an Associate Staff Engineer at Scientific Atlanta, where they established systems testing procedures for telephony over hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) systems and actively participated in Reverse User's Technical Committee. In 1997, they joined Ciena as a Lead Engineer, where they created a prototype serial 10Gbps transceiver (with FEC) and worked on a 10G parallel optics version. In 2000, they became a Principal Engineer at PhotonEx, leading the design team on their second generation reduced footprint 43Gbps transceiver. In 2004, they joined MITRE as a Lead Integrated Electronics Engineer, leading a six-person team responsible for advising the DoD on R&D investment in Common Data Link, a broadband military microwave communications waveform. Finally, in 2010, they joined MagiQ Technologies as a Principal Engineer, where their main tasks were to design RF modules and fiber-optic equipment, as well as assisting with the design and launch of the GeoOptics product line for seismic optical sensing.

Mark Lucas completed their Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from The University of British Columbia between 1988 and 1991. Mark then went on to attend Northeastern University from 2005 to 2008, where they earned an Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering.