Eric Goldner

Eric Goldner has worked in the engineering and educational fields for over 30 years. In 1986, they began their career as a Senior Engineer at Litton Guidance and Control Systems Division, where they supervised Engineers, Physicists, and Technicians in developing innovative solutions to resolve fiber optic gyro performance and packaging challenges for inertial navigation and guidance systems. Eric also managed the development of Litton's high accuracy FOG used in the first integrated fiber optic GPS/INS system and led development teams in improving fiber optic gyro components and sensor architectures. In 1987, they took on an Instructor role at Moorpark College. In 1996, they moved to Litton Guidance and Control Systems as Technical Director, where they directed multiple teams developing planar, towed and fixed fiber optic hydrophone arrays. Eric successfully managed engineers and scientists in hydrophone cost reduction and electronics development projects that resulted in over $200M in new ASW business and was the IPT lead for Navy's Conformal Velocity Sonar (CAVES) development program. In 2000, they became the Packaging Team Leader at Chromux, Inc., where they were responsible for MEMS interconnect and packaging technology. Eric managed the development of optical device packaging that significantly reduced temperature sensitivity and developed automated MEMS packaging and interconnect solutions. In 2002, they moved to Sabeus as Director of Systems Engineering, where they directed all of the Engineering Department activities for the Federal Systems division. Eric coached and mentored a project team to produce a high-temperature, downhole, multiple-point temperature/pressure measurement system in less than 4 months, from concept to field demonstration and managed the R&D and field testing of an all-optical prototype military towed hydrophone array. In 2006, they became the Vice President of Systems Engineering at LxSix Systems, Inc., where they directed the technical team through a series of successful development projects and government contracts. Eric led the development of a multi-channel fiber optic rotary joint costing one-tenth of competing devices with superior performance and durability and wrote winning proposals that resulted in $2M in government contract awards in the division's first 1-1/2 years, including the selection by ONR for the development of an all-optical swimmer detection system for littoral area protection. In 2007, they joined US Seismic Systems, Inc. as Chief Technical Officer, Engineering Vice President, Co-Founder, and Corporate Director, where they defined and executed USSI's strategic technical vision. Eric built and managed the Engineering Team of world-class experts in electronics, software, firmware, sensors and systems and successfully managed the development of cutting edge electronics system solutions with applications in defense, energy, and structural health monitoring. In 2015, they became the Founder and Managing Partner at Phoenix Sensing Technologies, where they led the development of fiber optic interrogation systems for structural health monitoring and medical sensing applications and provided technical consulting for patent prosecution and capital investment. In 2016, they moved to UltraViolet Devices, Inc. as Engineering Manager, where they managed all of the Engineering Department activities, developed new products and sustaining engineering of legacy UV surface disinfection devices, filtration products, coil cleaning and air stream disinfection systems, and managed customer service activities. In addition, they have also worked as an Educational Tutor since 1990.

Eric Goldner holds two degrees from Tufts University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Eric also has two certifications, a Certified Credit Union Board Member from CUNA obtained in December 2022, and a Permanent Instructor Credential from a California Community College District.