Expert Details
Surfaces, Nanostructured Materials, and Electrochemistry, Including Batteries)
ID: 735870
Colorado, USA
MISSION
Expert offers technology consulting, IP consulting, and expert services, leveraging his expertise in developing new materials and device technologies across a broad range of applications.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Business-focused technical leader with excellent analytical, communication and leadership skills. Technical expertise on the applications of materials science and device technologies across a broad range of market applications. Author or co-author on over 100 patents and published patent applications. Led the development of multiple technologies from innovation to the marketplace.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
o Averted >$100M in potential recall liability to TI by identifying a previously undiagnosed failure mechanism for surface adhesion in a MEMS device, and leading the team to design and ship replacement parts. Parts shipped <9 months after the failures were identified.
o Originated the concepts, wrote, and won grants of >$2 million in non-dilutive government funding for four different companies (seven awards total).
o Author on 90 issued U.S. patents across a wide range of fields, with a focus on materials, surfaces, and electronic and optical systems.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2000 | Degree: Post-Doctoral Researcher | Subject: Chemistry: Molecular Magnetic Materials, Conductive Polymers, and Crystal Engineering | Institution: California Institute of Technology |
| Year: 1998 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Chemistry | Institution: California Institute of Technology |
| Year: 1992 | Degree: BA | Subject: Chemistry | Institution: Carleton College |
Work History
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| Years: 2009 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert asks as a technology strategy consultant to Fortune 500 clients, helping them design new products, identify cost reduction opportunities, and target R&D and M&A investments. His clients benefit from his unusually broad background, including batteries, semiconductors, medical device, and software, and his focus on the fundamentals of the business. He has consulted to well-recognized names in aerospace, semiconductors, industrial products, consumer products, apparel, and food, among others.Expert also acts as an advisor and CTO-for-hire for early stage companies still developing their technical and business strategies. As a technical expert in IP matters, he possesses 10 years' experience in expert witness testimony, prior art and invalidity searching, performing diligence for investors, reviews of portfolios for large IP owners, and IP and technology landscapes for both small and large companies. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Electrochemistry Research Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Cost and performance benchmarking of new battery and supercapacitor technologies. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2018 to 2020 | Employer: Xinova | Title: Managing Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Xinova helps companies find and scale technology growth initiatives through open requests of an inventor network from which the company sources technology innovations; strategic planning to help clients prepare for and take advantage of technology disruption, led by a staff of senior industry executives; and access to capital to fund product development, M&A, and new ventures. Currently, Expert is working on M&A and technology evaluations, and implementing open innovation initiatives for select clients. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2016 | Employer: Technology Reserve, Inc. | Title: Chief Technologist / Technology Advisor | Department: |
Responsibilities:Helped multinational organizations (including General Electric, DuPont, Alcoa, Ford, and the research organization CSIRO) out-license technologies to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). Developed process for interviewing SMEs to identify technical and market needs, and drafted best-in-class documentation to communicate these technologies, and facilitate transfer. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2008 to 2017 | Employer: Ardent Research | Title: Inventor; Manager of invention review team | Department: |
Responsibilities:Served as an inventor-for-hire on over 70 patents and published U.S. Patent Applications. Manage Ardent’s expert and inventor networks of a dozen independent contractors. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2015 | Employer: ClearMark Systems, LLC. | Title: CEO | Department: |
Responsibilities:Co-founded a DARPA-funded software company developing anti-counterfeiting and forensics analysis software for the semiconductor industry. Raised $1.1 million. The technology uses machine vision to capture a microscopic image of tooling-specific characteristics of a product, and by comparing these images against a database, an automated algorithm confirms authenticity. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2008 to 2015 | Employer: Rocky Mountain Section of the MRS | Title: Founder, President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Founded and led non-profit that hosts technical talks, short courses, and networking events for the materials science community in the Front Range of Colorado. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2009 to 2014 | Employer: University of Colorado, Boulder | Title: Research Faculty | Department: |
Responsibilities:Collaboration with Prof. Doug Gin, Chemical Engineering. Consultant to Prof. Steve George, Chemistry. Consultant to Prof. Jill DuPre, ATLAS Institute. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2005 to 2008 | Employer: Zettacore | Title: Principal Polymer Chemist | Department: |
Responsibilities:Developed a new class of high strength gelled liquid electrolyte for a semiconductor memory device that stored bits in the redox states of molecules. Raised $500,000 in grant support for Zettacore’s successor company, eSionic, to develop the technology further. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2000 to 2005 | Employer: Texas Instruments | Title: Process and Packaging Engineer | Department: Digital Light Products |
Responsibilities:In 2001 elected as Group Member, Technical Staff, fastest in division history, for contributions identifying an unanticipated stiction failure mechanism and leading the team to develop a remedy. Led teams of up to 20 engineers in integration and qualification of new anti-stiction coatings, and new technical solutions to dramatically to improve the contrast ratio of DLP systems. |
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Career Accomplishments
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| As of early 2020, Expert has been a technical expert in 8 litigation cases. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| U.S. Patents and Patent Applications: 90 issued U.S. Patents, and 109 published U.S. Applications Patents and publications in: Batteries and Electrochemistry, Sensors and Devices, Optics and Optoelectronics, MEMS, Functional Materials, Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, Carbon and its Allotropes, Membranes and Chemical Separations. |