Education:

Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1966,
Carnegie Mellon University, Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1967
Carnegie Mellon University, Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, 1969.
Accepted by Carnegie Mellon University while a junior in high school.
BSEE coursework completed in three years.
Coursework for MS in Materials Science and Computer Science.
At the time was the youngest PhD ever granted by Carnegie Mellon University.
Passed Engineer in Training Professional Engineering Examination.


Doctoral Dissertation: Electrode Phenomena and Thermal Analysis Associated With Low-Voltage Transient Arcs Under Liquid Dielectrics at Short Interelectrode Gap Spacings. Review committee included Department Heads of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, and professors of Plasma Physics and Materials Science.



Honors and Awards:

National Merit Scholarship awarded while a sophomore in high school.
National Science Foundation Research Fellowship (graduate school).
Ford Foundation Fellowship (graduate school).
Carnegie Mellon University Electrical Engineering Department Fellowship (graduate school).
National Science Foundation Traineeships as an undergraduate.
National Science Foundation Summer Fellowships in undergraduate and graduate school.
National Science Foundation Summer Fellowship while in high school.
Winner of several best paper scientific paper awards
Member of Sigma Xi (scientific research) and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering) Honorary Societies.


Employment:

Philco-Ford Research Division in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania (summer 1964). Member of Technical Staff.
Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department (1965-1966). Member of Programming Staff, Systems Administrator (full time).
Autonetics, Division of North American Rockwell (summers 1966, 1967). Member of Technical Staff.
Carnegie Mellon University (1968). Instructor (part time).




Hewlett Packard in Loveland and Ft. Collins, Colorado and Corvallis, Oregon (1969-1989)

Various divisions: Loveland Instruments Division Integrated Circuits Operation, Calculator Products Division, Desktop Computer Division, Controller Operation, Corvallis Integrated Circuits Operation and Division, InkJet Components Operation, Peripherals Group.

Various positions: Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Project Leader, Engineering Group Leader, Engineering Section Manager, R&D Lab Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Section Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Marketing Manager, Product Line Manager, Operations Manager, Operations General Manager, Peripherals Group R&D Manager. Many of these positions included multiple sites and overseas units.

NeoPath in Bellevue, Washington (1989-1990). Founding Technical Officer in start-up team: Chief Operations Officer, Chief Technical Officer.

Oregon State University, College of Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and College of Business (1992-1998). Adjunct Professor (taught graduate courses, developed graduate and undergraduate courses).

TOH Laboratories (1990 1996). Senior Research Scientist and Consultant. See attached highlights.

Engineering consulting, management consulting and forensic consulting (1990-present).


Consulting, Boards of Directors:

Engineering and management consultant at various times to NeoPath, Xerox, Tektronix, Colorado Crystal.

Board of Directors experience with Colorado Crystal, First Alternative, Inc., NeoPath.


General Experience:

Very wide range of engineering and responsibilities in research and development, manufacturing, marketing and quality assurance for technical components, calculators, computers, mass storage devices, and printers. See attached highlights.

Research and scientific investigation into fire cause and origin. See attached highlights.
Research specialty is electrical arcs, metallurgical effects of arcs and sparking, lasers and plasma physics, and technical components and computer products.


Professional:

Member at various times of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics (Vice President of local chapter),
American Academy for the Advancement of Science,
Scientific Research Society of North America.


Technical Papers, presentations, patents and awards:

Technical papers on arcing, plasma discharges, lasers, computer pattern recognition, tutorial series on MOS integrated circuit technology, thin film resistor technology, laser resistor trimming, invited paper on digital metrology, invited presentation on engineering learning curves, inkjet technology, co-editor of special issue of HP Journal on inkjet technology.

Published first technical papers at age 17, presented paper at regional technical conference at age 18, and presented paper at national technical conference at age 20.

Granted individual patents, responsible for and had issued patents in a long-term and wide ranging patent program at Hewlett Packard and at NeoPath.