Staff Optical Engineer @ (October 2025 - October 2026)
Optics Lead @ (April 2021 - October 2025)
Optics Lead for HARMONI Spectrograph System @ (July 2016 - April 2021)
Graduate Researcher @ (May 2011 - May 2016)
John Capone Education
University of Maryland
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Astronomy)
2010-2016
The George Washington University
Bachelor of Science (BS) (Physics Major, Computer Science Minor)
2006-2010
John Capone Skills
Application Programming Interfaces
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Bayesian statistics
C (Programming Language)
C++
Computational Physics
Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Cryogenics
Cryostat
Data Analysis
Git
Image Processing
Infrared (IR)
Instrumentation
JIRA
LaTeX
LabVIEW
Lenses
Manufacturing
Mathematical Modeling
Matlab
Metrology
Mirrors
Nuclear Physics
Numerical Analysis
Numerical Simulation
Observational Astronomy
Optical Design
Optical Engineering
Optical Imaging
Optical Materials
Optical Physics
Optics
Physics
Programming
Python
Python (Programming Language)
Research
Rigorous coupled-wave analysis
Science
Scientific Computing
Scrum
Sensors
Simulations
Spectroscopy
Statistical Data Analysis
Statistics
Systems Engineering
Teaching
Vacuum
Vacuum Chambers
Zemax
John Capone Summary
John Capone, based in Ellicott City, MD, US, is currently a Senior Optical Engineer at KBR, Inc.. John Capone brings experience from previous roles at Magic Leap, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Oxford, Department of Physics. John Capone holds a 2010 - 2016 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Astronomy @ University of Maryland. With a robust skill set that includes Application Programming Interfaces, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Bayesian statistics, C (Programming Language) and more. John Capone has 1 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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