Our greatest asset in working with clients to achieve their design criteria are the talents and energies of our highly experienced employees.  While each of them brings unique technical expertise to your project, they all have advanced skills in creative problem solving, teamwork, customer service, project management, and clear and timely communication.  Most importantly, our staff exhibit a passion for solving challenging design problems while ensuring our clients' needs and expectations are met to their complete satisfaction.

Mechancial Design and Fabrication
Doug Gomez and Carl Silver are scientific instrument makers specializing in mechanical design and fabrication.  Their technical skills, close teamwork, and diverse talents result in the timely production of well-engineered novel instruments and parts.  Carl and Doug have made significant advances in our machine shop, bringing in CAD, CNC, Computer Aided Manufacturing, a machining center, and most recently, our new Polyjet rapid prototyping/3D printing capabilities.

Carl B. Silver, Senior Scientific Instrument Developer
(802) 656-0082, Carl.Silver@its.uvm.edu

Growing up in Springfield, Vermont - the "Precision Valley" - where his father was a machinist instructor, Carl started his career twenty-five years ago with Fellows Corporation where he completed his machinist apprentice program.  Following prototyping and volume machining experience for local firms in Burlington, he came to IMF in 1995.

 

Douglas S. Gomez, Senior Scientific Instrument Developer,
(802) 656-0083, Douglas.Gomez@its.uvm.edu

After receiving a BS degree in Forestry from UVM and working in the field, Doug changed careers to become a Class A Tool and Die Maker completing a three year Technical Manufacturing program with the General Electric Corporation in 1987. He worked in local industry after GE starting at IMF in 1996. Since employed at UVM Doug has completed a second BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Electronic/Embedded System Design and Fabrication
 
Michael Fortney, Research Project Engineer
(802) 656-0080, Michael.Fortney@its.uvm.edu

Mike began his career in electronics after receiving his Associates degree in 1982.  He spent 20 years at IBM in Essex working his way from technican duties to design engineering while completing coursework in electrical engineering at UVM.  Mike earned his BSEE at UVM and was awarded the Atwater Kent Prize, an award for the top electrical engineering student. Mike went on to earn his MSEE from UVM in 2007.

Mike began work at IMF in 2007 as a research project engineer.  Mike has a keen lifetime interest in science which has led him to work with K-12 students and university research projects as part of the Space Grant Program, musculoskeletal research laboratory, and the sensor network workgroup Through Mike's skills, IMF is now able to provide customer solutions in the area of wireless sensors, printed circuit board design and fabrication, embedded microcomputer systems, and control and applications programming.

Nanoscale Measurment and Control Systems

Guy G. Kennedy, Research Project Engineer
(802) 656-0077, Guy.Kennedy@uvm.edu

Guy works  as part of the [UVM] Molecular Physiology and Biophysics team researching the structure and function of molecular motors.  Guy's BS in Fine Arts highlights his creative sensibilities, but his love for conceptualizing, designing, fabricating, and servicing physical systems led to his start at IMF in 1984.  After initially servicing complex instruments on the UVM campus, Guy's exceptional skills were put to work in mechanical, electronic, and optical design and fabrication.  Since 1995, he has been a member of the Molecular Motors Group in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics department. His innovative instrument and research designs have led to grants, papers, and patents at one of the world's leading research centers.
"I express my sincere enthusiam and highest regards for the contributions Guy Kennedy has made to my program", David Warshaw, Ph.D. Chairman, UVM Physiology

 

Tobey Clark, Director, Instrumentation and Model Facility (IMF)
(802) 656-0069, Tobey.Clark@its.uvm.edu

Tobey leads the IMF organization and also oversees the activities of IMF's sister department, Technical Services Partnership (TSP).  The organizations are part of the UVM Instrumentation & Technical Services (ITS) department where Tobey is the director.  After earning a BS in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, he came to The University of Vermont to complete his MSEE.  Tobey assumed responsibility for leadership of TSP in 1984 and was appointed director of ITS in 1995.  He also has faculty appointments in the colleges of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) and Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS).