Bradley H. Jared received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, where he leads research efforts in precision engineering and advanced manufacturing. He spent almost a decade in industry prior to joining Sandia in 2007 and has performed, presented and/or published work in the fields of ultraprecision diamond turning, micromachining, ultrafast pulsed laser processing, and additive manufacturing.