Benjamin Cornish

• Lead teacher for physics and simultaneously developing an engineering curriculum for the high school, with horizons for lower school (K-8) implementation across the school district.
• Member of an integrated STEAM committee focused on assessing, developing and personalizing STEAM curricula for the Bronxville school and its unique population.
• Member of Innovation Expo Committee focused on developing an event to showcase student studies, projects and portfolios in many fields of study, with intent of providing students an authentic and public audience for their works.
• Instructor for middle school robotics and coding programs to provide further enrichment beyond the classroom experience.
• Cycling instructor, Team Director and Head Coach for the mountain biking team, participating under the umbrella of National Interscholastic Cycling Association, NICA.
• Helped establish the NY NICA league in 2011 by authoring the proposal documentation, and sitting on the NY NICA board of directors since inception. This program has grown and now serves 300-400 student-athletes from around the state.

• Lead teacher for the advanced high school level engineering curriculum, including introduction courses, digital and information engineering and senior project-based engineering courses.
• Director for Bronx Science Design Institute: a summer invention and innovation program for talented youth.
• Re-developed the computer science curriculum instructing students on a wider range of object oriented programming concepts in multiple programming languages; heavy focus on data analysis, simulation, critical and logical thinking.
• Girls Lacrosse coach 2012-2014, taking the team to NYC quarter-finals.

Integral member of the Product and Service Management team.  Managed three 3rd-party integration products – their development and delivery: executed product roll-out to existing and new clients.  Engaged with partners and clients at business, technical, and troubleshooting levels. Engineering and client specification collection; drafting and documentation, and executive sign-off - for internal and client-facing projects.  Conducted cross-departmental trainings regarding new products and services.  Owner of issue triage for these products and intimately familiar with the capabilities of each.

• Established beta-tester relationships with existing clients for product trials.
• Conducted regular departmental trainings for upcoming products and new releases – was the go-to point for many individuals on multiple product features.
• Constructed and reviewed curriculums for a variety of training sessions and methods.
• Mentored several interns teaching them of the workplace, new technologies and public speaking.

Designed and developed a prototype system to measure large flat-screen display quality using Fourier imaging techniques and commercial-level photographic technologies.  Developed and managed timelines and personnel for collaborative work.  Understanding of optics and image-processing theory, tools and techniques.  Full ownership of budget, timeline and reporting for project.  End-of-year reports, operations manuals, Bill of Materials and requirement reports for deliverable.  Selection and sourcing of appropriate hardware for fitting out new labs.

• New darkrooms established on time, within budget with the appropriate hardware in place.
• Contributed to a proprietary image-processing software library.
• Established relationships with contractors and local workshops – previously lacking.
• Prototype delivered on time to Canon Japan Dec ‘06, manufacturing QA demonstration in March ‘07.

An integral member of the technical team responsible for developing the first optical-based touch-screen system.  Close ties and relationships with academia and the Dept of Physics at ANU.  Contractor administration and interaction, establishing technical and contractual requirements.  Patent review and prior art searches.  Supervised interns, and collaborated with undergraduate class lectures and tours.  Building fire warden.

• Conference attendance, presentations, contractor engagement.
• Several multi-system operational prototypes demonstrated to investors, customers and manufacturing partners at critical timings.  E.g. funding rounds, conferences, partner visits.
• Worked with a variety of worldwide groups for equipment acquisition, conferences and training.

TOP was a highly selective graduate scholarship program to prepare teachers of physics for the New York City Public Schools.  Matriculation: 2012.

BS in Experimental Physics

BE in Systems Engineering

Principal, Bronxville HS

Teacher, colleague, Bronx HS of Science

Teacher, colleague, Bronx HS of Science

Principal, Bronx HS of Science

PHYSICS 7-12

TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION 7-12