SKM Instruments Team
Meet the leadership team at SKM Instruments, who have worked together for over 24 years to design and create unique spectroscopic instrumentation. With an impressive mix of science, engineering, and business experience, the team has established themselves as leaders in the spectroscopy community.
Dr. Keith Carron, President
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Keith received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Northwestern University and was researcher at the ETH (Zürich), University of Bayreuth (Germany), and at Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Wyoming. He retired from the university with emeritus status in 2015. Along with teaching and research at the university, he enjoyed developing instruments. He founded the companies DeltaNu, Snowy Range Instruments (Metrohm Raman), and SKM Instruments to create instruments to match his university research program and to fill voids in the Raman market.
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Mark Watson, Lead Design Engineer
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Mark has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Mark has founded or worked with 7 companies before SKM Instruments. Mark’s specialty is with system design of products with mixed-signal electronics and electro-optics. Mark has extensive experience developing embedded systems and associated firmware for analytical instruments.
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Shane Buller, Lead Opto-Mechanical Engineer
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Shane has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Wyoming. Shane has founded or worked at 7 companies before SKM Instruments. Shane’s specialty is mechanical and optical design involving the whole process from ideation to manufacturing.