James Passalugo

James Passalugo has over 20 years of professional experience in operations, manufacturing engineering, business line direction, product management, and product and process development engineering. From 2019 to present, they have served as Sr. Director of Operations and Director of Manufacturing Engineering at Intelon Optics. From 2003 to 2019, they were Business Line Director - Semrock Optical Filters and Product Line Director - Precision Coatings Business Unit at Semrock, Inc. & Advanced Thin Films. James also held the roles of Senior Product Manager and Manufacturing Engineer/ Manager at the same company. Prior to this, they worked as Senior Market Development Engineer and Product & Process Development Engineer at Corning Incorporated from 1998 to 2003.

James Passalugo received a Bachelor of Science in Optics from the University of Rochester between 1994 and 1998.