Integrated circuits, from basic technology through applications:

• Adviser to National Semiconductor in support of their Wafer Foundry activities
• Nif/T New Business Architects on two specific projects, one an IP based start-up
• Trade secret and patent actions, including a Santa Clara-based IC manufacturer and the suits prompted by the theft of processing information in Asia.

Past experience includes:

• actively participating in the early development of Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs)
• involvement in memory products, including product development, product management and business analysis
• project management for a state-of-the-art wafer fab in Nagasaki, Japan
• co-authoring a ten-year outlook for key IC markets
• technical liaison with several active foundries, ranging from linear bipolar technologies to advanced CMOS and FLASH technologies
• management of CMOS process development
• inventing or co-inventing 31 US patents