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Marilee Mohajer
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Marilee Mohajer is an educator with
more than 30
years of teaching and research experience. Her expertise contributes
greatly to Savant Company's excellence in training and our ability to offer
the highest quality conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Marilee has a Bachelor of Arts
in English and Education from Northern Illinois University, and she has
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Sherie Motakef, Ph.D. |
Sherie Motakef holds a Ph.D. in
Optical Materials and Engineering from the
University of Arizona. She received her BS and MS degrees from MIT in Materials
Science and Engineering with a special concentration in
semiconductors. While at MIT, she completed 3 research projects at the IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center on silicide and copper materials for microelectronic
applications. Sherie has received awards from the American Ceramic
Society (1994) and the American Chemical Society (1995) for her dissertation
on novel materials for integrated optics. She has authored and coauthored 25
technical publications.
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Joe Tinervia |
Joe Tinervia, a 20-year veteran of the New York book-publishing
scene, is the author of a number of textbooks on business communications,
writing, and English grammar. He is a former Editorial Director of the
McGraw-Hill Book Company, where he specialized in business communications.
Today, as Director of The Writing Center, Joe conducts seminars on writing,
vocabulary development, grammar and punctuation, presentation skills, and
time-management techniques.
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Joe's
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Bill
Dresselhaus, MSChE, MSPD |
Bill Dresselhaus
is passionate about the
creative innovation process. With an extensive career in the trenches of new
product design and development, he wears many hats—product engineer,
industrial designer, business entrepreneur, innovation strategist, graphic
artist, educator, author, speaker and publisher. Bill provides management,
consulting and training internationally to entrepreneurs, corporations and
educational institutions for revolutionary business success.
Bill was
one of the first in-house product designers at Apple Computer, leading and
managing the design process there for several innovative new products,
including the forerunner of the Macintosh. After leaving Apple as a Product
Design Manager, he continued as a design consultant to Apple on a number of
new computer products. Bill is featured as an early Apple innovator in the
book by Paul Kunkel, AppleDesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design
Group (Graphis Press).
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M. Grewal,
Ph.D. |
Mohinder Grewal
is a
Professor of Electrical Engineering at
California State University, Fullerton. He received
his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a Specialization in Control Systems
and Computers from the University of Southern California. Dr. Grewal
co-authored
Kalman Filtering Theory & Practice Using MATLAB (Second Edition) and
Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation & Integration,
published by Wiley & Sons in 2001. He was invited to author the "Kalman
Filters and Observers" article for the Wiley & Sons
Encyclopedia of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering (1999) and "The Kalman
Filter" for
Encyclopedia of Life
Support Systems (EOLSS), now under development as part of a
scholarly partnership with UNESCO.
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Laura
LeBlanc |
Laura LeBlanc
has 20 years of
experience in the electronics industry in the areas of business development,
strategic marketing, account management, sales, application engineering, and
design engineering. Her unique blend of business and technical experience
enables her to develop strong customer relationships; identify technical and
business needs; and develop and execute marketing and sales strategies to
help companies achieve their business goals.
Laura
is the former Director of Networking Products for Kawasaki LSI, U.S.A.,
where she developed product marketing and sales strategies based on market
trends and requirements for established and emerging markets. Laura holds a
BSCE from Boston University.
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Janice
Ozguc, MSEE |
Janice Ozguc
is a business
development and strategic marketing consultant for electronics companies.
She has over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry, principally
in the areas of executive management, strategic marketing, and business
development, as well as design engineering and applications engineering.
Prior to establishing her consulting
business, Janice was Vice President for Networking Products at Kawasaki LSI,
U.S.A. Janice’s business development work enabled Kawasaki to become a
major player in the networking market.
Janice holds an MSEE and
undergraduate degrees from Boston University.
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Jordan Isailovic, Ph.D. |
Dr. Jordan Isailovic
is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at California State University.
He is the author of
Videodisc and Optical Memory Technologies and Videodisc Systems: Theory and
Applications. He has authored numerous technical articles and holds several
patents on digital information storage techniques and video signal
processing. He presented the world's first public engineering course on
videodisc technology (January 1982) and taught the world's first graduate
courses on videodisc and optical memories (CD, CD-ROM, etc.).
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Mahnaz
Moghaddam |
Mahnaz Moghaddamc
has 20 years of
experience in ASIC and SoC design and development. Her unique blend of business and technical experience
enables her to develop strong customer relationships; identify technical and
business needs; and develop and execute complex ASIC/SoC/ASSP engineering
tasks to
help companies achieve their product development goals.
Mahnaz
is the former Sr. Engineering Manager of Toshiba America Electronic
Components,
where she managed an ASIC/SoC Engineering team, worked very closely with
Toshiba customers in the North America and developed many complex ASIC/SoC
designs for them.
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Judith Kahn, MBA |
Judith G. Kahn is a public relations consultant providing
communications counsel and related services for technology companies. She
brings more than 20 years of high-tech public relations experience to her
clients. Before starting her consultancy, she was a Vice President and
cabinet member of the Technology Leadership Practice in the Silicon Valley
office of KVO Public Relations, a Fleishman-Hillard company. She earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Master of Business Administration
degree in Marketing/Computers and Information Systems from the University of
California, Los Angeles.
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Eureka Thomas
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Eureka Thomas is an international business consultant.
Eureka works
with Savant Company Inc. on business development conferences and seminars
specializing in international business relations and understanding with
an emphasis on Japanese business practices. She is currently studying at California
State University,
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Joanna Colunga |
Joanna Colunga
received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Azusa Pacific
University. As the Training and Conference Coordinator for a large,
private, non-profit, social service organization in Los Angeles, Joanna
planned and organized numerous local, regional, and national conferences. In
addition to large-scale conferences, Joanna has organized and implemented
a wide variety courses and training series for professionals in social work, law
enforcement, mental health, early childhood,
and medical fields on child-welfare issues.
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Hossein Moini, Ph.D. |
Hossein
Moini
is a Professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton. He
received his Ph.D. from
the
University of California,
Santa Barbara in 1986. Dr. Moini's current research and
development activities are focused on the design of mechatronics systems, adaptive
structures, and microprocessor applications in mechanical engineering.
He is a member
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
and other professional organizations.
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Farzin Jahed, MBA |
Farzin Jahed
has 18 years of experience in the electronics industry,
more than 14 with Toshiba America Electronic Components, where he
specialized in application engineering and hardware engineering, with an emphasis
in memory technology, architecture, and applications. Farzin is
involved in the study of IPs for various market segments such as wireless,
computing, automotive, and networking. He earned
his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of
California, Berkeley and his Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Farzin
is a marketing and technical consultant with
leading-edge electronic companies.
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