- Former president of Century Precision Optics.
- Sold Century Precision Optics to Tinsley Laboratories in 1993 and remained on its board of directors until 1998.
- Developed wide-angle and telephoto lenses for film and television production and was awarded several U.S. patents.
- In 2016 he received the Distinguished Service Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Camera Operators.
- His Tele-Athenar telephoto lenses were used in filming action sports and wildlife and for the 1966 film Endless Summer and such TV series as Wild America and Hawaii Five-O. His company also created a custom relay system used in shooting model sequences in Star Wars (1977).
- His work in adapting the Canon 150-600 zoom lens for professional use brought Century Precision Optics a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1992.
- He continued to develop optical devices into the 2000s. He saw a need for a high-quality, wide-angle, short-zoom lens for Steadicam cinematography. His design resulted in the Angenieux 15-40 T2.6 Optimo, the first in the company's popular Optimo and DP series of zoom lenses.
- He developed specialized lenses used by the U.S. military to test weapons systems and by auto manufacturers in crash tests. Other gear aided underwater photography and newsgathering.
- He and his family survived Greece's Great Famine of 1941-42, which killed 300,000 people.
- At age 19, he moved to Los Angeles and became an apprentice to Chris Condon, a family friend and owner of Century Photo Supplies. He went onto become a skilled optical craftsman, then bought the company from Condon in 1973 and renamed the company Century Precision Optics.
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