Dave Jacobsen is Director of Sales and Application Engineering at Lambda Research Corporation with over 30 years of optical engineering experience. Dave also teaches many TracePro training classes, both in the US and worldwide. Prior to coming to Lambda Research Corporation, Dave worked as a Principal Optical Engineer at PerkinElmer, formerly EG&G, working with xenon flashlamp based systems for illumination, machine vision, and process control, as well as designing spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications.