Dr. Roger Stettner, President & CEO
Dr. Roger Stettner is the President and CEO of Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc. As founder and visionary for ASC 3D, he was instrumental in the major breakthroughs resulting in the 3D Flash LIDAR™ technologies and cameras currently testing and deployed in space programs, underwater imaging, unmanned ground vehicles and UAV/UAS, digital mapping, security and moving vehicles applications.
Roger holds over twelve patents ranging from gamma-ray high-resolution camera to auto-radio-graphical digital imager to underwater three-dimensional-imaging LIDAR receiver, several 3D laser radar patents from x-ray imager patents to high-speed crystallography detectors, and patents for various solid state photo and x-ray cathodes.
Roger received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago and studied under Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Professor S. Chandrasekhar, an MA in Physics from Columbia University, Bell Telephone Laboratory Program and his BS in Physics from the City University of New York.
Howard Bailey, Vice President and Principal Scientist
Howard Bailey currently holds the position of Vice President and Principal Scientist, and has worked at ASC since 1992. He is the principle IC designer of ASC’s 3D ROICs, and has more than thirty years of hands-on experience in the design, simulation, testing and program management of detector and readout arrays, for focal planes. From 1978 - 1992, Howard worked at Hughes Aircraft Company and Carlsbad Santa Barbara Research Center. At Hughes, he served successively as a Project Engineer, Section Head, Project Manager and Program Manager for both silicon and HgCdTe focal plane arrays, detector and readout programs. Howard has many patents including underwater LIDAR and 3D flash LADAR.
Howard has his MS in Physics from Ohio University, 1976 and his BS in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Charleston, 1972.
Thomas E. Laux, Vice President Business Development
Thomas Laux is responsible for all facets of business including sales, marketing and business development. His background includes executive positions in a number of successful high-tech semiconductor and software startups, as well as large companies including Silicon Optix (acquired by IDT), WisChip (acquired by Micronas), Alias|Wavefront (acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc.), Integrated Systems, Inc., and MIPS Computer Systems (IPO then acquired by SGI). Tom has established businesses and revenue centers for companies such as CISCO (Japan), Extreme Networks, 3Ware, Qpixel Technologies and Inogen.
Tom has a BME from the University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire) and MBA/MIM from Marquette University and Thunderbird School of Global Management.
JoAnn Stettner, Senior Director, Finance and Operations
JoAnn Stettner is responsible for all company operations for ASC 3D ranging from finance, human resources to compliance to facilities. She has been with ASC since January 1997 and supervises areas such as camera component scheduling, camera deliveries, all business accounting, contract accounting, property accounting and payroll functions. JoAnn also deals directly with all Government contracting offices and Government auditing offices.
JoAnn has over 18 years of accounting, business software design and management experience at Union Bank of California. Starting as an account manager she rose to Vice President of the Accounting Department supervising 25 accountants, dealing directly with Federal Reserve Banks and becoming an expert in accounting software.