Experience

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  Advanced Energy

  • United States
  • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Executive VP

    • Oct 1998 - Oct 2003

    Responsible for integration of RFPP into AEIS after acquisition by AEIS. Established cooperative relationships with Universities consortiums to transfer research to parent company. Retire in October 2003.

  • executive vp

    • 1998 - 2003

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  RF POWER PRODUCTS, INC.

  • Voorhees, NJ

  • Chariman, CEO and President

    • Aug 1991 - Oct 1998
    • Voorhees, NJ

    Responsible for turn around of a RF, radio frequency, power source/generator company, (RFPP) that supplied RF power sources to the semiconductor equipment companies world wide. Built company for $6 million in1991 to $35 million in 1998 with little or no debt using cash flow to fund growth. Secure...

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  Plasma-Therm

  • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

  • Executive Vice President

    • May 1991 - Jul 1993
    • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

    Worked on organizing the development of plasma etching tools for the semiconductor manuafacturing industry

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  University of South Florida

  • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

  • Director of Microelectronics Reserach Center and Professor of Electrical Engi...

    • Jan 1989 - Apr 1991
    • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

    Responsible for hiring faculty, writing proposals for funding to DARPA where funding in the amoun tof $14 million were obtained in the first year.

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  Zero Stage Capital

  • State College, Pennsylvania Area

  • Technical Advisor

    • Mar 1987 - Sep 1987
    • State College, Pennsylvania Area

    Reviewed funding request proposals for technical content.

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  Massachusetts Microelectronics Center

  • Westborough, MA

  • Executive Director

    • Jan 1984 - Jan 1987
    • Westborough, MA

    First Executive Director of Massachusetts Microelectronic Center. Raised over $20 million to match Commonwealth funds. Established Integrated Design network for 9 universities, established semiconductor processing labs at 4 universities and initiated construction of a rapid turn around silicon wa...

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  Penn State University

  • Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor

    • Sep 1967 - Jan 1984

    Developed Solid State Device Laboratory and conducted research on soled source diffusion materials used in junction formation, HCl+O2 reactions for silicon oxidation and plasma etching using NF3.

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  Bell Telephone Laboratories

  • Member of Technical Staff

    • Jun 1966 - Aug 1967

    Worked on development of low threshold MOS devices using Al2O3-SiO2 gate structure

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  Penn State University

  • University Park, PA

  • Instructor

    • Sep 1963 - Jun 1966
    • University Park, PA

    Instructor in Electrical Engineering

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  ITT Labs

  • Nutley, NJ

  • Summer Intern

    • Jun 1959 - Aug 1959
    • Nutley, NJ

    Worked in navigational radar antenna design and testing, TACAN abd VORTAC