Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at  Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and  product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics  (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During  her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and  Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and  sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis  in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May  1986.