Executive Vice President. Consulting on development of a cryogenic instrumentation product line and the development of advanced portable power sources. Responsibilities include product specification and development, market research, proposal preparation, and intellectual property development and protection.

Vice President & Chief Scientist. Overall responsibility for technical direction and planning within the company. Includes responsibility for procurement and execution of government contracts; supervision of development and support of the company's existing and anticipated product lines in cryogenic instrumentation, fault current limiters, and radio frequency components; and coordination of development programs with marketing efforts.

Major accomplishments:

• As company founder, helped to define and execute product, marketing, and financing strategy from start-up through IPO.
• Directed successful product development programs in wireless telecommunications, cryogenic instrumentation, and electrical switchgear from start-up to manufacturing
• Wrote and implemented the company's intellectual property policy and procedures.
• Responsible for identifying patentable inventions, drafting disclosures, and managing an employee disclosure/patent incentive program.
• Oversaw preparation and prosecution of 40 patent applications
• Negotiated and executed two technology acquisitions and 6 collaborative development relationships.
• Procured $2.75MM in government contract revenue between 1991 and 1995. Had primary responsibility for all government-related activities.
• Implemented formal documentation procedure for all technical activities within the company, from advanced development/research to engineering changes to existing products.
• Oversaw growth of company’s technical staff from 1 full-time professional (in 1991) to a maximum of 35 full-time professionals.
• As principal investigator, successfully administered and directed all of ISC’s government contracts, including an ATP project involving three subcontractors.

Vice President of Engineering. Supervising research group of eight professionals. Responsible for the development of commercial superconductor products including powders, continuous conductors, and three-dimensional shapes. Supervised successful effort to develop and commercialize the production of yttrium barium cuprate powder.

Senior Project Leader in research group. Supervised research group of 12 professionals. Responsible for projects studying advanced processes for the manufacture of thin film substrates and next-generation electronic packaging. Also supervised project studying the processing and fabrication of high temperature superconducting ceramics.

Staff Scientist in Ceramics Branch at Corporate Research and Development Center. Studied powder processing and phase equilibria in beta alumina materials for potential battery applications. Optimized alumina arc tube materials for high pressure sodium lamps. Developed multiphase low-thermal expansion silicate materials for integrated circuit supports. Additional study in alumina-tungsten packaging materials, including microstructural and phase development during firing, metallization application techniques and microstructure, and organic components for tape-casting and screen-printing applications.

Ph.D. in Ceramics Section of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Thesis under Professor H.K. Bowen titled "Thermoelectric Power Measurements in Wustite". Additional work (in conjunction with Lincoln Laboratory) on the study and fabrication of high temperature ceramic-to-ceramic seals. Secondary specialization in general statistical mechanics. Study supported by NSF Graduate Fellowship.

Studied under Professor H. Schmalzreid. Work involved the study of impurity diffusion in magnetite as a function of composition through the use of radioactive tracer techniques. Study supported by the Electrochemical Society's F.M. Becket Fellowship Award.

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. Bachelor's thesis under Professor R.S. Gordon titled "Creep of Pure and Impurity-Doped Magnesium Oxide." Additional study of creep of beta alumina and hot-pressing and grain growth in magnesium oxide and aluminum oxide. Study supported by the University of Utah Chemistry Department Scholarship.

"Creep of Polycrystalline MgO-FeO-Fe2O3 Solid Solutions", J. Amer.. Ceram. Soc., 57(10), 421, (1974). (Co-authors: R.T. Tremper, R.A. Giddings, and R.S. Gordon).

"Analysis of Mass Transport in Diffusional Creep of Polycrystalline MgO-FeO-Fe2O3 Solid Solutions", J. Mater. Sci., 10, 200, (1975). (Co-author: R.S. Gordon).

"Activation Energies in the Diffusional Creep of Polycrystalline Ceramics", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 60(7-8), 318, (1977). ( Co-authors: P.A. Lessing and R.S. Gordon).

"Creep Mapping in a Polycrystalline Ceramic: Application to Magnesium Oxide and Magnesiowustite", J. Mater. Sci., 12, 1598, (1977). (co-authors: P.A. Lessing and R.S. Gordon).

"Diffusion of Chromium in Magnetite as a Function of Oxygen Partial Pressure", J. Electrochem. Soc., 125(2), 55C, (1978).

"Grain Growth and Creep in Polycrystalline Magnesium Oxide Fabricated with and without a LiF Additive", Ceramurgica International, 4(1), 17, (1978). (Co-author: R.S. Gordon).

"Defects and Cation Diffusion in Magnetite (III): Tracer Diffusion of Foreign Tracer Cations as a function of Temperature and Oxygen Potential", Ber. Busenges. Physik. Chem., 82, 778, (1978). (Co-authors: R. Dieckmann, T.O. Mason, and H. Schmalzried).

"Time Relaxation of the Thermoelectric Power of Wustite", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 64(2), C23, (1981). (Co-author: H.K. Bowen).

"Low Temperature Thermoelectric Power Measurements of Quenched Wustite", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 64(4), 220, (1981). (Co-author: H.K. Bowen).

"High Temperature Thermoelectric Power Measurements in Wustite", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 64(8), 431, (1981). (Co-author: H.K. Bowen).

"The Effect of Thermal Gradients on Ionic Defects in Wustite", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 65(11), 582, (1982). (Co-author: H.K. Bowen).

"Kinetics of the Beta" to Beta Transformation in the Na2O-Al2O3 System", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 66(3), 166, (1983).

"Powder Processing and Crystallization of Beta and Beta Alumina", Amer. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 62(2), 244, (1983).

"Growth of Beta Alumina on Aluminum Oxide", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 66(9), C154, (1983).

"Comment on Comparison of Diffusion Data and of Activation Energies'", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 66(11), C216, (1983).

"Phase Relations in the Li2O-Na2O-Al2O3 System", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 67(3), 183, (1984).

"Alkaline Earth Effects on the Reaction of Sodium with Aluminum Oxide", J. Electrochem. Soc., 133(4), 833, (1986).

"Densification and Microstructural Aspects of Mullite-Cordierite Ceramics", Adv. in Ceramics, 19, 117, (1986).

"Microstructure Development in Mullite-Cordierite Ceramics", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 72(7), 1295, (1989).

"Thermodynamics of Vapor Phase SiC Powder Synthesis", Proc. Int. Symp. on Combustion and Plasma Synthesis of High Temperature Materials, San Francisco, CA, October 23-26, 1988. (Co-Author: R.A. Giddings)

"The Effect of Particle Size Distribution on the Densification and Microstructure Development in Liquid Phase Sintered Aluminum Oxide", Ceramic Transactions, 7, 415-35, (1990).

"A Monte Carlo Solution to the Problem of Diffusion in Grain Boundaries", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 74,(4) 823-9 (1991).

"Production of Continuous Filaments of Melt Textured YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductor", J. Mater. Sci. Lett., 10, 1362-65, (1991). (Co-authors: M.V. Parish and L.J. Klemptner).

"A Constant Source Solution to the Problem of Diffusion in Grain Boundaries", Ceramic Transactions, 24, 315-24, (1991).

"Fabrication of High Jc YBa2Cu3O7-x Wires by a Ceramic Fiber Process", High Temperature Superconducting Compounds III, Processing and Property Relationships, ed. by S.H. Whang, A. DasGupta, and E. Collings, TMS Society Publications, p. 337-45, (1991). (Co-authors: V.M. Pathare, L.J. Klemptner, M.V. Parish, H.D. Park, D.B. Chandler, M.J. Neal, G. Bakis and J.W. Halloran).

"Thermal and Phase Analysis of YBa2Cu3O7-x Powder Compacts with Organic Acid Additives" Ceramic Powder Science, III, 803-9, (1991). (Co-authors: M.V. Parish and C.R. Hubbard).

"Fabrication and Properties of High Temperature Superconducting Wire by the Green Fiber Method", J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 75(4), 903-7, (1992). (Co-authors: J.W. Halloran, D. Chandler, L.J. Klemptner, M. Neal, M.V. Parish, H.D. Park, V.M. Pathare, G. Bakis, and W. Ishida).

"Glass coating of YBa2Cu3Ox wires", Supercond. Sci. Technol., 7, 691-5, (1994). (Co-authors: W.Wu, C-Y Chu, J.L. Roubout, L.J. Klemptner, D.S. Applegate, and K.C. Goretta)

"Effect of Carbon Dioxide on the Reaction of YBa2Cu3O7-x with Water Vapor", J. Mater. Sci. 28, 5155-60 (1993). (Co-authors: K. Brzezinska, S. Bruckenstein, and L.J. Klemptner).

"Generation of Intermodulation Products by Granular YBa2Cu3O7-x Thick Films", Proc. SPIE, 2559, 59-68, (1995). (Co-authors: S.K. Remillard, L.J. Klemptner, T.A. Freeman, P.A. Smith, and T.W. Button).

"A Resistive Fault Current Limiter Based on High Temperature Superconductors", Applied Superconductivity, 3(7-10), 469-82, (1995). (Co-authors: H. Muller, D.S. Applegate, and Q. Huang)

"Properties and Applications of Thick Film High Temperature Superconductors", IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, 44(7), 1356-60, (1996). (Co-authors: S.K. Remillard, N.M. Alford, P.A. Smith, G. Dolman, C. Meggs, S.J. Penn and T.W. Button

"A High T_c Superconducting Current Lead Assembly for the XDS Helium Cryostat" 1997 CEC Proceedings, Portland, OR (1997). (C-authors: J.G. Tuttle, T.P. Hait, R.F. Boyle, H.J. Muller, and S.R. Breon)

"YBCO Thick Films for High Q Resonators" in print. (Co-authors: S.K. Remillard, P.A. Smith, G. Dolman, C. Meggs, J. Holmes, and T.W. Button

"Mullite-beta spodumene composite ceramic", U.S. Patent #4,526,876, July 2, 1985.

"Mullite-cordierite composite ceramic", U.S. Patent #4,528,275, July 9, 1985.

"Zircon-cordierite composite ceramic", U.S. Patent #4,576,919, March 18, 1986.

"Method of producing materials for co-sintering". U.S. Patent #4,788,046, November 29, 1988. (Co-inventors: E.A. Barringer, S.I. Lieberman, and M.S. Schmidt).

"Tungsten paste for co-sintering with pure alumina and method for producing same", U.S. Patent #4,835,039, May, 30, 1989. (Co-inventors: E.A. Barringer, B.C. Foster, and R.S. Lind).

"Co-fired metal-ceramic package", U.S. Patent #4,861,646, August 29, 1989. (Co-inventors: E.A. Barringer, S.I. Lieberman, M.S. Schmidt, R. Waack, D.J. Kelley, B.W. Saxton, and W.C. Gruber).

"Method for preparation of superconductor powders", U.S. Patent #5,055,436, October 8, 1991. (Co-inventors: L.J. Klemptner and J.W. Halloran)

"Superconducting 123YBaCu-oxide produced at low temperatures", U.S. Patent #5,340,797, August 23, 1994. (Co-inventor: L.J. Klemptner).

"Cryogenic fluid level sensor", U.S. Patent #5,393,736, February 28, 1995. (Co-inventors: L.J. Klemptner and J. Whitney).

"Self-restoring fault current limiter utilizing high temperature superconductor components", U.S. Patent #5,432,666, July 11, 1995.

"Superconducting 123YBaCu-oxide produced at low temperatures", U.S. Patent #5,527,765, June 18, 1996. (Co-inventor: L.J. Klemptner). "Cryogenic fluid-level sensor", U.S. Patent #5,744,945, April 28, 1998. (Co-inventors: L.J. Klemptner and J. Whitney).

"High temperature superconductor element for a fault current limiter", U.S. Patent #5,761,017, June 2, 1998. (Co-inventors: L.J. Klemptner and D.S. Applegate).

"Magnetically activated switch using a high temperature superconductor component", U.S. Patent #5,805,036, September 8, 1998. (Co-inventors: Q. Huang and D.S. Applegate).

"High-purity polycrystalline alumina cryogenic dielectric", U.S. Patent #5,987,341, November 16, 1999. (Co-inventor: S. Remillard)

"Stripline resonator using high temperature superconductor components", U.S. Patent #6,021,337, February 1, 2000. (Co-inventor: S. Remillard)

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