Robert MacDonald

Mr. MacDonald is Chief Systems Engineer of Space Systems. He has over 30 years’ experience in Optical, Electro-Optical, and Opto-Mechanical system design and analysis. He has extensive experience in simulation and modelling and has developed many software programs for technical analysis of optical systems. Bob also has extensive experience in EO/IR manufacturing and has developed numerous test and alignment processes and associated tooling.

Prior to joining EO Vista, Bob worked several commercial and DOD space systems as lead systems engineer at L3Harris (formerly SSG Precision Optronics), where he also worked as lead project engineer for several programs, as well as managed the systems engineering department for several years. Additionally, Bob was lead Optical Test Engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab and EO/IR Systems Engineer for BAE systems in Nashua, NH. Mr. MacDonald began his career as an Optical Systems Engineer at Optra, Inc. in Peabody, Ma.

Mr. MacDonald earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and a B.S. in Physics, with minors in Optics/Math/Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.