CEO/President

As the CEO of a small business, Ms. Rauch wears many hats, including COO, CFO, Business Development Manager, and more. There is always so much going on… she takes pride in putting together strong teams that have the skills and drive to address the challenges presented by our customers and she is very effective at writing winning proposals, clearly articulating how our team’s approach will meet requirements. she has a BS in Physics from the Tel Aviv University in Israel and a Project Management Profession (PMP) certificate, as well as decades of experience managing technical programs. She looks forward to expanding Nu-Trek’s business model into design services and broader collaboration with other companies.

Technical Director and Systems Engineer

Mr. Black is a Systems Engineer specializing in cutting-edge infrared sensor technologies. While at Raytheon Vision Systems, Mr. Black was the lead for RVS’s uncooled product line, which also included high-volume bolometer wafer fabrication, wafer level vacuum packaging, high-volume test, and productization. Mr. Black joined Nu-Trek in 2016 and among other contributions, led the development of the next generation of thermal, uncooled readout integrated circuits, Chestnut and Chinkapin. Mr. Black received a BS in electrical engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and holds 31 patents, of which 15 are related to uncooled Focal Plane Array technology.

Engineering Manager and IC Designer

Mr. Lyson has fifteen years of radio-frequency and mixed-signal design experience, and is currently focusing on readout integrated circuit (ROIC) designs and managing senior engineering staff. He has unit cell, ADC, digital counter, serializer, IO, and chip timing design experience. Mr. Lyson’s main contributions include progressing Nu-Trek's engineering validation methodology to greater chip coverage, reducing design risk and design cycle time. He has experience in analog, mixed-signal design/simulation, RF, verilog, synthesis, P&R, and has had project management professional training.

Design and Test Lead

Dr. Wu is a mixed‐signal CMOS professional with both design and management experience. He is an expert in all phases of the integrated circuit development process from initial product concept through high‐volume manufacturing release, and has a proven track record of successful products combining multiple analog functions with substantial digital content. Dr. Wu has hands‐on experience defining chip architectures as well as designing analog functional blocks (ADCs, DACs, switched‐capacitor filters, amplifiers, PLLs) and associated digital content (digital filters, DSP functions, microcontrollers).

Senior ROIC Architect and Designer

While at Hughes Aircraft Company, Mr. Asbrock specialized in readout integrated circuit design. After Hughes was purchased by Raytheon Vision Systems, he was a ROIC Design Engineering Fellow for Lidar Applications, including lead designer for Lidar ROICs, including multiple sampling and multiple target range estimation, with the latter used on the International Space Station for docking. Mr. Asbrock has been with Nu-Trek since 2011, serving as PI, ROIC architect, and/or lead designer, on multiple ROIC developments, including four ROICs for Lidar, Artemis, Sycamore, Aspen, and Pecan. Mr. Asbrock has an MSEE and 12 patents.

IC Designer

Mr. Behmen has 31 years of analog, mixed signal, ROIC and RF integrated circuit design work, and earned an electrical engineering degree from UC Davis. He is Currently focusing on ROIC and ROIC design blocks such as programable PLL, IO, and design verification testing. He developed a method for generating low noise bolometer biases, for which Nu-Trek has filed a patent.

Bookkeeper, Office Staff

Mr. Maio works on the bookkeeping at Nu-Trek to ensure proper financial records. He addresses bank reconciliations, accounts receivables and payables, as well as updating actual project spending each month. Through updating project spending, Ethan is able to generate earned value charts for management presentations, and also assists with cost volumes in the proposal process. Mr. Maio wears many hats and lends a hand with whatever is needed. Among other things, he was the lead designer on this website.