MICHAEL J. MARENTIC
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`EDUCATION:
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`M.S. Degree - Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois
`Thesis: Electron Density Measurements of an AC Plasma Panel Using
`Laser Interferometry.
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`ORGANIZATIONS
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`ACHIEVEMENTS:
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`B.S. Oegree - Engineering Physics, University of Illinois
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`Multiple Excellence Awards at QinetiQ
`Testifying Expert Witness
`President's Award at Hitachi America
`Chairman VESA Board of Directors in 1997
`Interstate Electronics Special Achievement Awards
`Member of Society for Information Display since 1977
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`CAREER SUMMARY: Extensive industrial and theoretical experience in product engineering , system
`engineering, display electronics design, and device fabrication. Support various infrastructure groups with
`technology evaluations during acquisitions and equity position investment. Supported customers with
`application engineering and marketing with technical reports and assessments.
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`EXPERIENCE:
`2002 - 2011 QINETIQ NORTH AMERICA - TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS GROUP
`Company: Provider of innovative and cost-effective hardware solutions to US
`Government agencies. 600 employees
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`Principal Electronic Engineer for underwater submarine to aircraft laser communications;
`System and lead engineer for airborne multi-spectral imaging payload used for
`detection of land mine fields: Lead electrical and system engineer for medical device
`used for cervical cancer detection and treatment.
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`2001 - 2002 ALIEN TECHNOLOGY, Morgan Hill , California
`Company: Start-up with unique low cost silicon packaging technology; 110 employees
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`Senior System Developer in IC Design team. Developed innovative LCD driver
`architecture for very low cost, mechanically flexible, ultra low power LCD.
`Member of IC design team that designed first Nanoblock, modular OLEO display driver.
`Member of team that designed and manufactured first class 1, UHF, EPC Global
`protocol , passive RFID tag and reader.
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`1999 - 2001 PHILIPS COMPONENTS, Sunnyvale, California
`Company: Multi-national component manufacturing conglomerate; 50,000 employees
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`Director of Engineering for new product creation business group. Projects include
`Video monitor design, large LCD TV, optical backlighting, and human interfaces.
`Project timing was several months from concept to working prototypes.
`Designs were documented and handed off to pertinent factory for volume manufacture.
`Member of team that performed due diligence for acquisition of LG LCD.
`Technical consultant to market development, venture capital investment, and
`CTO organizations.
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`1995 -1999 HITACHI ELECTRONIC DEVICES (USA), INC. , San Jose, California
`Company: Sales and manufacturing subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate ; 1,200 employees
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`Manager of small design group for flat panel monitors. Projects included
`LVDS, TMOS digital and analog video interfaces for LCD notebooks and monitors.
`Liaison office between three Japanese LCD design departments and various
`partnered Silicon Valley companies.
`Very active in Video Electronics Standards Association as chairman of Flat Panel
`Display Interface working group.
`Wrote quarterly market and technical position report on video chips for LC~ 's.
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`1993 -1995 SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION , San Diego, California
`Company: Employee owned, technical services provider; 17,000 employees
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`Principal Engineer responsible for transfer of LCD backlight from prototype fabrication to
`high yielding production. Assignment areas included process engineer for phosphor
`deposition, UV lamp design and cathode engineering ; device engineer for
`characterization of life, environmental operating window, optical efficacy;
`System engineer for support of marketing group.
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`1987 -1993 PLASMACO, INCORPORATED, Highland, New York
`Company: Start-up using IBM's former plasma panel manufacturing line; 80 employees
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`Founder and Vice-president responsible for development, design, and manufacture
`of high voltage driver chip on glass technology. Responsible for ali post clean room
`assembly, burn-in, characterization , yield management, and cost containment.
`Managed purchasing, coordinated vendor contracts for PCB assembly, power
`supply procurement, and process equipment purchases.
`Participated in business plan writing , obtaining financing , construction, start-up,
`and staffing of 65,000 sq. ft. factory.
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`1986 -1987 SIGMATRON NOVA, INCORPORATED, Thousand Oaks, California
`Company: Thin film electroluminescent manufacturer; 40 employees
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`Product Engineering Manager responsible for quick design and manufacture of custom
`TFEL displays. Characterized device failure modes and designed tolerant drive
`electronics to aid in long life displays.
`One-third time accompanied Marketing Manager on trips to customers.
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`1985 -1986 PLASMA DISPLAYS, INCORPORATED, Orange, California
`Company: Consulting corporation
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`AT&T Technologies, Incorporated, Reading, Pennsylvania
`Assisted Beli Laboratories with technical leadership to the development, design
`and manufacturing groups involved with transferring unique 3-Electrode
`per pixel plasma display from prototype to high volume production.
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`Data View, Incorporated, Champaign, Illinois
`Designed and prototyped custom plasma display electronics and packaging in six months.
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`1979 -1985
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`INTERSTATE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION , Anaheim, California
`Company: Military contractor for US Navy; 1,800 employees
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`Engineer responsible for design , prototyping, and initial production of analog drive electronics
`in militarized plasma display terminal family; designing and documenting IEC's nuclear
`hardened display terminal; technical interface for procurement of electronic components
`and assemblies; liaison with other groups within company such as Quality Assurance,
`Manufacturing , and Parts Standards.
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`1977 -1979 NCR CORPORATION , Electronic Display Systems, Colorado Springs, Colorado
`Company: Manufacturing division for displays used in point of sale terminal; 60 employees
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`Specifying, designing, tooling, and scheduling of all new AC plasma panels; Process
`Engineer for vacuum backfill, overcoat application , and wet processing; principal
`Development Engineer for NCR second-generation plasma panels (shift type).
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`1973 -1976 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Coordinated Science Labs, Urbana, Illinois
`Employer Profile: Multidiscipline laboratory where AC Plasma Panel was invented.
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`Design , construct and perform experiments leading to successful electron density and
`discharge activity measurements of a plasma panel.
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`PUBLICATIONS:
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`Plastic Film Displays with Nanoblock ™ IC Drivers Integrated by Fluidic
`Self Assembly TM Process, Jacobsen, et aI., SID 2002
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`Manufacturing of Large Wide-View Angle Seamless Tiled AM LCD's for
`Business and Consumer Applications, Greene , et. ai, International Display
`Manufacturing Conference 2000, Seoul, Korea
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`LCD Backlight Performance over the Military Operating Temperature Range,
`Marentic, SPIE 1995.
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`High-Speed Asynchronous Video Addressing of AC Plasma Panel Incorporating
`Brightness Control; Lee, Marentic, Moore, Weber; SID. 1986.
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`Two Equal-Brightness On-States in AC Plasma Displays Driven by Conventional
`Sustain Waveforms; Weber, Steiner, and Marentic; SID. 1983.
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`Brightness Control of the AC Plasma Panel ; Suste and Marentic; SID. 1982
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`PATENTS:
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`Plasma Display Panel Drive Electronics Improvement, M.J. Marentic.
`U.S . Patent. #4,492,957
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`Advanced Waveform Techniques for Plasma Display Panels, M.J. Marentic.
`U.S. Patent #4,415,892
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`Modular Waveform Generator for Plasma Display Panels, M.J. Marentic,
`D.A. Manseau. U.S. Patent #4,464,657
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