Sue Spahr Hodges
Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Hodges manages Contracts Administration and Finance. The "glue" that holds Nova Sensors together, her command of solid business practices combined with the technical understanding of Nova's work permits her to be effective in working with anyone from government auditors to customers.
- Bachelor of Arts Degree, Business Administration, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA.
J.P. Curzan
Senior Design Engineer
Jon-Paul (J.P.) has experience in the design of full-custom VLSI as well as board-level programmable logic. He has spent most of the last ten years using PC-based schematic capture, simulation and VLSI layout and verification tools. Trained in VHDL coding techniques for FPGA synthesis and test bench generation, his experience also includes use of Windows/NT-based simulation and synthesis tools from silicon and software vendors such as Xilinx, Lattice, QuickLogic, Aldec, Mentor Graphics and Synplicity.
- Currently performs the design and layout of Nova's VASI and other readouts for both visible and IR applications, and the associated VHDL designs for camera control and video processing.
- Has worked in the tactical/strategic focal plane array (FPA) design groups at the legacy Amber site and at the Raytheon Infrared Operations site.
- Assisted with the design and layout of many custom readout ICs for infrared imaging applications, and gained expertise designing the digital portion of several readouts for high-performance staring FPA programs including 1k x 1k and 2k x 2k sized arrays.
- Received the Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992.
