Dr. Jamshid Avloni has more than 31 years experience in the chemistry of traditional polymers and 25 years developing electrically conductive polymers (CP).  He leads development, production, and applications of conductive fabrics at Eeonyx.  Prior to joining Eeonyx in 1995, he was a scientist in Prof. Alan MacDiarmid's group at the University of Pennsylvania's chemistry department.  Prof. MacDiarmid was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for co-discovery of conducting polymers.  While at the Univ. of Penn., Dr. Avloni worked on the synthesis, characterization, blending, and processing of CP materials.  He earned his Ph. D. from Moscow State University.

Mario Baum was born in 1975 in Burgstaedt near Chemnitz, East Germany. After taking a combined MBE (Master of Business and Engineering) degree at Chemnitz University of Technology he started working as an application engineer for a company called GEMAC mbH Chemnitz in the field of micromechanical sensor systems. In 2002 he joined the team of Prof. Gessner at Fraunhofer ENAS (formerly Fraunhofer IZM) as a scientist with both research and marketing tasks. Currently his research work is focused on MEMS packaging and microsystems as well as medical applications.

Luis Bermudez is Director of the Interoperability Certification program at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). He leads OGC compliance and plugfest activities and supports the Interoperability Program. He teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Master's program. He has a PhD and M.S. in Hydroinformatics from Drexel University, USA and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. He has participated in Sensor Web Enablement standards working groups at the OGC and W3C. He has 15 years experience in software development, GIS, semantic sensor web, and international project management.

Alex Brisbourne is President and COO of KORE Telematics, the world’s largest fully digital wireless network provider focused exclusively on the rapidly-expanding machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market. He is a prolific speaker and opinion leader: He has become a staple at the semi-annual CTIA conferences and, most recently, delivered two sessions at CTIA Wireless 2011 in Orlando, covering smart energy and the connected car. He is frequently quoted as an expert on machine communications in trade and business-oriented media.

Mr. Burneske is Senior Vice-president of Engineering for SMT Engineering in Appleton, WI. He has nearly 20 years of product development experience in the EMS industry and has been responsible for design and manufacturing transition for electronic products in consumer, industrial and medical markets. Mr. Burneske has extensive experience with 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz unlicensed wireless systems for wireless video and wireless sensor applications. Mr. Burneske is a graduate of Milwaukee School of Engineering.

John Canosa is General Manager of M2M/OEM Solutions for ThingWorx™.  ThingWorx is the 1st Application Platform for the Connected World™ - one that combines the key functionality of Web 2.0, social media and Connected Intelligence™, and applies it to any process that involves people, systems and the physical world. John has over 30 years of experience in the electronics and software industries with over 20 of them focused in the device networking arena.  John was recently named an "M2M Pioneer" by M2M Magazine for his strategic vision and the advancement of machine-to-machine technology.

Dr. John M. Chong is Director, Product Engineering at Kionix.  He is responsible for productizing and supporting Kionix’s growing portfolio of inertial sensors.  He was also responsible for developing Manufacturing Test capabilities for Kionix’s accelerometer products as production increased tenfold to 100M units/yr.  Before joining Kionix in 2006, Dr. Chong worked for Calient Networks, a company focused on using MEMS to support increased bandwidth through the automated management of fiber optic networks.  He completed his B.S. (‘93) and his Ph.D. (‘99) in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, where he worked on novel techniques for the design and manufacturing of MEMS.

Bryan is responsible for overseeing and contributing to Hillcrest’s worldwide advanced R&D activities. Since joining Hillcrest in 2008, Bryan has been a key technical contributor to the company’s patented Freespace motion control and in-air pointing technology. Previously, he was Senior Engineer of DSP at Hillcrest. Prior to joining Hillcrest, Bryan was a Staff Audio Software Engineer in the Research Laboratory at Sennheiser Electronics. He was part of the technology development group at Dolby Laboratories, and was a DSP Engineer at AuSIM, Inc., a leading developer and provider of audio simulation, positional (3D) sound, and audio measurement solutions.

Prior to Roving Networks, Mitch Dale was director of product marketing for Calypto Design Systems where he ran all outbound and inbound marketing programs. Mitch has more than 17 years of marketing and engineering experience in functional verification and SOC design tool. He was previously director of verification solutions and was responsible for development of emulation and acceleration products at Mentor Graphics. He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Daly joined Bodkin Design & Engineering of Newton, MA in 2007.  He is responsible for developing new products and managing sponsored research programs.  Previously, Dr. Daly was Senior Scientist for ICx Ion Optics of Waltham, MA.  There he led product development efforts, particularly of wavelength-tuned infrared-based chemical sensors.  Prior to mid-1998, Dr. Daly was a scientist at NZ Applied Technologies and before that Spire Corporation.  He received his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University.  Dr. Daly has over 25 years experience with infrared technology.  He is author of over 60 papers and holds 9 patents.

Raghu Das MA (Cantab) is CEO of IDTechEx. He has an MA Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge University, where he studied physics. He has been closely involved with the development of RFID, printed electronics, energy harvesting and electric vehicles for over ten years, carrying out consultancy in Europe, USA, Asia and the Middle East. He has lectured on these topics at over 300 events and conferences around the world and is author of several IDTechEx publications.

Jay Esfandyari has more than 20 years of industry experience in Semiconductor Technology, Integrated Circuits Fabrication Processes, MEMS development and fabrication, and strategic MEMS market and business development. 

In the capacity of MEMS Product Marketing Manager at STMicroelectronics, Jay Esfandyari has developed new markets for MEMS products and achieved multi-million dollar business opportunities.

In his previous roles, Jay worked closely with customers to develop custom MEMS products, developed models to describe the physics of defect generation in silicon wafer during device fabrication processes, created solutions to perform analysis and computer simulation to improve the quality of silicon wafers.

Jay Esfandyari holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Vienna, Austria.

Focusing today on technical writing and editing, Randy Frank has a diversified technical background for his expertise.

Randy has established departments to address new technologies and effective communications in technology business for over 30 years. At Chrysler Corporation, he was involved in cold room (-20F) engine testing and alternator development. At American Motors, now part of the Chrysler Group, he was responsible for their first electronic engine control systems. At Motorola, he was involved with production, marketing and applications aspects of semiconductors including the introduction of several new power transistors, smart power ICs and sensors. At ON Semiconductor, he developed all of the communication material for establishing a $2 billion start-up and launching the company on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. At International Rectifier, he identified and launched dozens of new leadership products.

Randy is an SAE Fellow, 2001, and former Chairman of Sensor Standards Committee in the Society of Automotive Engineers as well as an IEEE Fellow, 2005,and former Chairman of the Automotive Electronics Technical Committee and Awards Committee of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.

Randy has three patents issued in the semiconductor packaging area and has written more than 300 papers, several book chapters and the book Understanding Smart Sensors, 1995, 2000.

Randy has organized and chaired numerous sessions at technical conferences, including the Energy Harvesting Symposium and the Automotive Sensors Symposium at Sensors Expo since 2003, and hosted several webcasts on a variety of topics.

Randy has an MSEE, MBA and BSEE from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Stéphane Gervais-Ducouret has 19 years of experience in the semiconductor industry as global marketing, project management, and product designer. He has worked for multi-national companies in Europe and in Asia across different segments.  Stéphane also has experience in emerging technologies and markets. His current position is global marketing for sensors at Freescale semiconductor and he is focusing on consumer and mobile phone market development. Stéphane holds a Doctorate degree (Ph. D) in Electronics from the University of Bordeaux (France) and an MBA degree from Newcastle University, Australia. He holds a European and US patent in MEMS application.

Thomas Gessner studied physics and completed doctoral thesis at TU Dresden in 1983. Since 1991 he is the director of the Center for Microtechnologies at the Chemnitz University of Technology and professor of a chair for microtechnology (1993). From 1998 he lead the Chemnitz branch of the Fraunhofer IZM and since 2009 he is the head of the new Fraunhofer-Institution for Electronic Nanosystems ENAS in Chemnitz. Furthermore he got an appointment as advisory professor of FUDAN University Shanghai in 1999 and of Chongqing University in 2003. At least he is author/co-author of more than 410 publications and 14 patent applications.
 

Heinrich Grüger (1968) studied physics at the University of Hannover where he specialized in plasma physics. From 1994 to 1998 he was employed by the Institute of Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden and obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Technical University Dresden with a thesis on the plasma assisted deposition of carbon nitride thin films. In 1999 he was employed by the Fraunhofer-Institute Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) at Dresden, where he is working in the field of sensors. Since 2000 he is group manager and responsible for sensor system developments.

Burkhard Habbe is Vice President Business Development at Micropelt, a thin film thermoelectric chip maker located in Freiburg, Germany. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Munich’s Technical University. and has held various senior positions in sales, marketing and business development - always related to cutting edge technologies such as robotics, videoconferencing (founding a nation-wide rental service),  microelectronics and machine vision. Since 2007 Burkhard became more and more passionate about energy harvesting using Micropelt’s thin film thermoelectrics.

Peter Himes has over 25 years' experience in helping startups and public companies establish their strategic direction and industry position. Experienced in IC and MEMS alike, Peter has held VP of Sales and/or Marketing positions at QuickSil, SiTime, and Winbond Corporations. Earlier in his career, Peter spent 15 years at National Semiconductor in various engineering, marketing and corporate strategy roles in National's Analog Products division.
 

Dr. Perry Holman has been involved in the research, design, and development of magnetic sensors for nearly 20 years.  Currently, Dr. Holman is a Principal Design Engineer with Honeywell Sensing and Control in Richardson Texas.  Dr. Holman is the author of 7 papers, and holds 6 US and international patents.  “Magnetoresistance Transducers And How to Use them as Sensors” is a design handbook on magnetic sensors written by Dr. Holman.

Art Holzknecht is Sales Manager in the Encoder Products Division of Renishaw, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of displacement (linear and angle) sensors and encoders for a wide variety of applications and markets.  Art has previously held positions in engineering design and management with leading technology companies involved in the selection and integration of position sensors .  He holds a BSME from the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mark J. has spent over a quarter century defining, developing and marketing advanced mixed-signal and low power wireless semiconductor solutions for companies like Atmel, National Semi, MicroLinear, Aeroflex and EM and is a return presenter at Sensors Expo.  In his current role, he is empowering ultra-low power and energy harvesting sensor applications through EM's Bluetooth Low Energy, 2.4GHz digital wireless, and RFID solutions.

Matt Jennings is the Vice President of iDigi Applications at Digi International.   iDigi Applications is a Digi business unit tasked to provide custom built business-focused, remote monitoring applications utilizing cloud technology. The division was formed through the acquisition of Matt’s company - Utiligent.  Matt has many years experience in data management and device management with Global Tier.  Prior to that, he had an extensive career with Accenture where he developed strategic business plans and created infrastructures for wholly owned subsidiaries.

Peter Kung, who is the president of QPS Photronics Inc in Canada, obtained his MSEE from the University of Minnesota , he had 20 years of semiconductor experience plus another 10 years in Telecom. He invented the phase masks in 1991 and spent 15 years developing the fiber grating technology, process and products. His latest invention is the VibroFibre- Vibration sensors used to  monitor vibrations in the Stator end Windings inside high power Turbine Generators. His objective is to work with partners to adapt this technology platform towards structural health and condition monitoring.

Vijendra Kuroodi is the Principal Systems Architect at Rohm Semiconductor USA. He has 16 years of semiconductor industry experience managing, supporting, defining and launching successful consumer electronics SOCs and software. He engages with customers, markets and standards bodies to develop specifications and solutions. He has vast systems design experience including development of industrial data acquisition systems, measuring instruments, touch sensors and consumer electronics products. He holds five US patents.

Dr. Lee is a research assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his Ph.D. in KAIST in 2007. His main research interests include energy harvester design, topology optimization, and reliability based design optimization. He is the recipient of Korean Research Foundation Grant. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. He was awarded the best paper prize by the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2007, and the 2009 highlight of collections by smart materials and structures (IOP publishing). His recent development on energy harvester was acknowledged by several science news websites (PhysOrg.com, EETweb.com).

Recognized scientist, engineer and leader in operations, strategy, business process reengineering and research commercialization. His research and development background is in software, physics, biophotonics and analytical instrumentation with life science, remote sensing and analysis applications. Mr. Levy has a career of successful scientific and engineering projects with many federal agencies, national laboratories and major corporations. Currently, he is Chief Technology Officer at Quant Engineering, specializing in software for engineering and science. His responsibilities include analytical modeling; data acquisition, analysis and statistics; image processing and analysis; modeling of physical processes; design algorithms; process automation; numerical optimization and innovative numerical techniques.

Johnny is an RF/EMC engineer at LS Research.  He has experience in the development of small custom antennas for 433 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.9 GHz, and GSM bands.  In addition to antennas; Johnny has worked as part of a team designing 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz wireless radio modules.  He has also developed range prediction software for low power, short range wireless devices.  As a compliance engineer, Johnny has experience testing to FCC Part 15 and Industry Canada standards. 

Karen became the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) Managing Director in June 2007. She oversees operations of MIG; spearheads strategic growth; and oversees sales, public relations, marketing, and outreach. Karen is active on the worldwide MEMS conference circuit as a keynote speaker, moderator and panelist promoting MIG’s role as a key player in the MEMS global supply chain.

Formerly Director of Special Projects, Karen played a pivotal role in launching MIG in January 2001. Karen has been critical in creating the content for MEMS Executive Congress, MEMS Education Series and annual member meetings, as well as establishing and maintaining partnerships with other organizations to advance the MEMS industry.

Karen joined MIG from Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development where she was a Senior Policy Analyst. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Karen was Senior Associate at Cleveland Tomorrow, promoting public-private partnerships and private capital investment. Karen was also a Program Associate with the Ford Foundation, managing programs to catalyze development in communities around the United States.

In her spare time, Karen volunteers at the Environmental Charter School at Frick Park, the National Council of Jewish Women and the University of Vermont. Karen has a BA from the University of Vermont and a MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Karen and her family reside in Pittsburgh, PA.

Mr. Lloyd is responsible for managing and leading the advanced development, product development and firmware development teams at InvenSense. He joined the company in 2008 and oversees the development activities that result in the production of the company’s industry-leading MotionProcessing™ technologies. Mr. Lloyd is a seasoned mixed-signal IC designer with over 20 years of hands on and executive management experience for leading semiconductor companies. Mr. Lloyd earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. John Logan has more than 25 years experience in sensor design, manufacturing and use. As Engineering Manager at GE NovaSensor he managed the development many high volume MEMS sensors for automotive, medical, consumer and industrial applications some of which have shipped more than 100million units. At Atmel, John has applied his experience and knowledge of sensors and has been a key member of the team that has designed and implemented the Sensors Xplained development environment.

Jacob Loverich is currently the VP of Research at KCF Technologies. He has been developing electromechanical devices for the past ten years and has focused last five years on wireless sensors and energy harvesting technologies. This work has spanned secure wireless sensor networks to acoustic sources for filter cleaning to piezoelectric atomizing devices. In his previous position a as a JSPS Fellow at Kyoto University in Japan, Dr. Loverich developed a new class of all polymer micropumps and invivo energy harvesting devices. He earned his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Center for Acoustics and Vibration at Penn State University. 

Mr. Lutz has over 8 years experience in the development of MEMS devices for application to biomedical and environmental diagnostics.  Brent earned his graduate degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, where he developed a highly-selective hydrogen gas biosensor on a microfluidic platform, with results published in Analytical Chemistry.  Since then, Brent has worked on a large variety of portable sensor technologies, including classic e-nose devices such as the Cyranose.  Brent’s recent work has focused on a completely novel gas microsensor that leverages emerging ceramic MEMS technology, and enables devices that are practical for embedding in mobile devices.

Mary Ann Maher is the CEO of SoftMEMS LLC. She received her Ph.D. degree (1989) from Caltech in the area of semiconductor device modeling. She subsequently conducted post- doctoral studies at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) in Neuchatel, Switzerland and joined Tanner Research in 1992. She moved to MEMSCAP in 1999 as an Executive Vice President and became the company's CTO in 2001. She founded SoftMEMS LLC in 2004.
 

Babak "Bobby" Matinpour, PhD, is the Director of Product Marketing at Epson Electroncis America, Inc., a leader in high-performance timing and sensing products. Dr. Matinpour holds a BS in EE from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD degrees in EE from Georgia Institute of Technology. He held numerous technical and marketing management positions in RF and Analog at National Semiconductor, RF Solutions (aquired by Anadigics), and VT Silicon, a company he co-founded. He has authored more than 20 IEEE conference and journal papers and a book published by Wiley.

Reza Moghimi is an applications engineering manager in San Jose, CA. He received a BSEE from San Jose State University in 1984 and an MBA in 1990—and has also received a number of on-the-job certificates. He has worked for Raytheon Corporation, Siliconix, Inc., and Precision Monolithics, Inc. (PMI)—which was integrated with Analog Devices in 1990. At ADI, he has served in test-, product-, and project-engineering assignments. He has written many articles and design ideas—and has given presentations at technical seminars. His hobbies include travel, music, and soccer.

Cody Morrow is graduate of Iowa State University in Aerospace Engineering and has been identified as one of the up and coming bright engineers by his peers and management at Cirrus Aircraft    Cody holds a commercial aircrafts pilot's license as well a being a Certified Flight Instructor .  Cody was an instrumental part of the team to get the Cirrus SR22 aircraft certified for flights into known icing (FIKI).  Specific to our presentation, Cody was the lead engineer to incorporate a new system for fuel and Ice protection level indication into the Cirrus SR2X platform.

Roger Nessen is Manager of Sales and Marketing at ITT-R2AS for products including industrial, commercial, medical and military and responsible for bringing new initiatives to ITT including First responder alarms, bio-med cardiac acoustic products, and energy harvesting. Products that Roger has successfully launched include Piezo Motor for high speed switching of fiber optic lines, Precision High force actuators for metrology machines used in wafer production. He started a medical product initiative using piezo electric ceramic components and maintained and grew the Value Added product line to show that piezo ceramic products can successfully be used across many industries.

President and founder of Dynamic Control. Angelo has an extensive background in electrical design and has been awarded many US Patents. Over the past 20 years he has led the design and manufacture of a diverse array of products including medical robotics, missile avoidance systems, automotive engine control systems and the advanced cargo systems for military helicopter systems.  He has extensive experience in creating and leading dedicated teams that produce products in a  cost-effective and timely manner.  Angelo has used the ARAMIS 3D image correlation technology for validating designs and computer models for successful competitiion against substantially larger competitors.

Rob OReilly is a Senior Staff Engineer at Analog Devices Inc. Rob has spent the last 20 years developing test, characterization and reliability processes for MEMS inertial sensors and microphones. He is currently responsible for advanced MEMS test, unique application support and business development. A former flight engineer in the US Navy, Rob also attended Northeastern University with focus in mechanical engineering and solid state physics.

Jonathan Oram is responsible for environmental monitoring and control of over 200 buildings in the ATK facility.  He has 8 years of experience with sensor networks and enterprise level software systems.

Pragnesh Patel is a Senior Engineer at Moog-Quickset, the leading manufacturer of Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) systems for military and industrial applications.  Pragnesh is directly involved in the specification, selection, qualification and implementation of solid state position sensors for use in PTZ systems.  He has particular expertise in hardware/software integration and real time control systems implementation.

Scott Philiben has been in aerospace engineer for his entire career.  A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Mechanical Engineering.  A holder of 6 Patents and One patent pending , Scott has had a varied and progressive career in aviation small to medium size companies that were absorbed into Goodrich Aerospace, Zodiac Aerospace, Cessna, Gulfstream.  Most recently Scott organized a new engineering and aircraft component  company around a critical issue in aviation - accurate fuel level and usage reporting

Steven Ramage is Executive Director, Marketing and Communications at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC is the industry standards body for spatial technology and location, namely addressing geospatial data exchange and interoperability.  Steven is responsible for a broad range of marketing, communications and education program activities worldwide. These include encouraging participation in OGC programs from the OGC's members. He also works closely with the OGC Global Advisory Council and the OGC Board of Directors.  Steven has a degree in Information Management and an international postgraduate diploma in European Marketing.  He speaks several languages including French, German and Norwegian.

Dr. Ricketts is Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer in IBM Industry Solutions.

Laurent Robin is in charge of the MEMS & Sensors market research at Yole Developpement. He previously worked at image sensor company e2v Technologies (Grenoble, France). He holds a Physics Engineering degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse, plus a Master Degree in Technology & Innovation Management from EM Lyon Business School, France

Mark I. Schiefer is the currently the Senior Scientist in charge of technical development at The Modal Shop.  With over 30 years of expertise in sensors, calibration, optics and digital data acquisition, Schiefer is responsible for the creation of transducer level distributed intelligent dynamics sensing systems and application solutions.  He provides both national and global support to the metrology community, serving on IEEE and ISO standards committees.  Schiefer holds an MSEE from the University of Cincinnati. 

Michael Scholles received the Diploma in electrical engineering and the Dr.-Ing degree, both from Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg (Germany). From 1990 to 1995 he has been with the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (Fraunhofer IMS) Duisburg. Since 1996, he has been employed by Fraunhofer IMS Dresden. In 2003, he became Division Director “Electronic Systems” at the then founded Fraunhofer IPMS. Since 2005 he is Business Unit Manager “Sensor and Actuator Systems” at Fraunhofer IPMS. Since January 2011, he is responsible for “Business Development & Strategy” at Fraunhofer IPMS.

Schwartz joined Digi in July 2006 as Technology Strategist with more than 10 years of embedded, RF design and project management experience. In this position, he evaluates new standards and technologies, resulting in proposed product direction. He also provides product training internally and externally. Prior to joining Digi, Schwartz’s major responsibilities included Director of Applications Engineering at Maxstream, a Digi-acquired company. Schwartz holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Utah State University.
 

Greg has been with Kaman for 40 years holding positions in Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales and Customer Service.  His knowledge of Inductive Eddy Current Technology for Non-Contact Displacement Sensing is unsurpassed in the industry

Patrick J. Timmons is currently the Calibration Systems Engineer at The Modal Shop, a PCB Group Company. Timmons graduated from Michigan Technological University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He has since continued development on a linear motor based shaker for low frequency long stroke calibration applications.

Christopher Townsend received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1990. He has been awarded over 20 US patents, and has contributed to 14 journal publications and a wide range of presentations and abstracts in the area of advanced instrumentation, wireless sensing, and energy harvesting. Townsend is Executive Vice President of Engineering for MicroStrain, Inc, which specializes in smart sensing systems with expertise in wireless sensor networks, inertial sensing, precision displacement sensing, and energy harvesting.  

Craig Trautman is Vice President, Business Development for Innovative Micro Technology and holds more than 25 years of experience in engineering, marketing, and sales.  Prior to IMT, he was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at TeraVicta Technologies; a RF MEMS switch company as well as VP of Marketing and Sales at StarCore LLC, a DSP  IP company targeting wireless and consumer electronics .  Previously, he directed global systems engineering, marketing and sales organizations at Motorola and held engineering positions with Delco Electronics, Honeywell and McDonnell Douglas. 

Mr. Trautman holds B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri.
 

Willard is the Director of Embedded at ARM, responsible for developing the awareness of ARM technologies in the embedded markets such as Automotive, Smart Energy, and Standard Microcontrollers. He is a 23-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, having worked in variety of engineering, sales and marketing positions promoting semiconductors for embedded applications for Motorola Semiconductor (Freescale), National Semiconductor, and NEC Electronics (Renesas). Willard holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan, and a MBA from the University of Phoenix. He has been with ARM since 2006.

John Tyson II, PE is the founder and president of Trilion Quality Systems, a manufacturer and developer of advanced optical measurement systems.  He has more than 25 years experience in the field of laser based and optical inspection methods of holography, ESPI, shearography and photogrammetry, as well as six patents in the field.  He is a graduate of Duke University (1981) with a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.  He lectures extensively, has written and reviewed peer-review journal articles.  He authored Optical Leaking Testing Method in MIL-STD-883, is co-founder and twice Chairman of the Laser Methods Group of ASNT.

Founder of Sensorcon, focused on gas & environmental sensor system design and manufacture.  ~10 years experience in electronics/packaging & manufacturing.   BS Engineering from Clarkson University, MS from Tufts University, PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo.

Jeannette is a Product Line Manager in Freescale’s Sensor and Actuator Solution Division.  In this role, Jeannette is responsible for the product and operational aspects for the intelligent motion sensor platform.   Jeannette has over 23 years experience in the semiconductor industry.  She has held positions of increasing product and marketing responsibilities.  Ms. Wilson has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a MBA. 

Principal Engineer with more than 15 years experience in acoustic, pressure and vibration sensor design and development, utilizing both piezoelectric and silicon MEMS piezoresistive technologies.  Formal education comprises both a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Master of Science in Physics.  Coupled with my professional occupation in research and development, I also have more than 8 years experience as a college faculty Physics professor, primary teaching focus is calculus-based mechanics and electromagnetic theory.