Mission

Our goal is to provide our customers with quality solutions and world-class service for their R&D and engineering programs.

Company History

Optics for Hire was founded in 2002 to market the optics consulting services of a team of Ukrainian engineers with over 20 years of collaborative experience in designing opto mechanical systems for a wide variety of applications including optical media, bio-medical devices, illumination and imaging systems, and metrology tools. In 2006 the company added an engineering consulting office in Minsk, Belarus.

Working with Optics for Hire allows firms to leverage their own expertise and enhance their productivity at a  compelling price.  We are customer focused and aim to deliver precisely what you need and to give clients maximum project control. Our customers have come to consider Optics for Hire as a resource which enhances their own capabilities with a significantly lower cost than doing the job internally. We are incorporated in the United States and are rigorous in our protection of our client's intellectual property.

The Ukraine R&D team is comprised of 18 physicists, optics PhD's, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, software engineers and CAD designers. They have worked together on optics technologies of nearly every type and application including several generations of optical disc drives including CD, CD-R and fluorescence based media.

US based project management is provided by talented engineers like Vladimir Schwartz who hold 11 patents, has worked in semiconductor and optical disc equipment industry and held engineering and technology management positions at a variety of well respect firms.   Mr. Schwartz is well versed in  optical technologies and acts as program manager and customer contact.

Company founder John Ellis previously served as VP of Marketing for the former NASDAQ listed data storage firm Constellation 3D. Prior to that Mr. Ellis held sales and marketing positions with optical disc capital equipment supplier Reflekt Technology and software concerns Viatech Inc. and Ligature Ltd. Mr. Ellis also previously worked for former US Senators Paul Tsongas and Warren Rudman.