Dave Upham leads SA Photonics’ engineering organization and also serves as a senior program manager for key programs. He has over 35 years of experience in engineering development and leading engineering teams, and received his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of California at Davis. Mr. Upham has led organizations ranging in size from small start-ups up to corporate divisions with over 300 engineers, at companies including ARGOSystems, Radix Technologies, Kestrel Solutions, Ciena Corp., Applied Signal Technology, and General Dynamics. His strength is in leading multi-discipline engineering teams from system concept development through product general availability, for advanced commercial telecommunication and US Government applications.