Frank Shemansky, Ph.D., VP of Business Development
Frank has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, MEMS, solar, and biotechnology industries. Prior to joining Sensor Platforms Frank held executive management positions at Mcube and Lumedyne Technologies focused on developing inertial MEMS sensor technologies.

THis guy has a LOT of valuable experience…

As Manager of Sensor Technology Development at Motorola (now Freescale), he was part of the team that developed and commercialized some of the first revolutionary high volume MEMS products. He also held senior management positions at Akustica and Orchid Cellmark. Frank has seven issued MEMS patents and over thirty technical publications and presentations and is a co-author of the first MEMS textbook. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in semiconductor device physics from Arizona State University.

He is putting his experienced shoulder to QUIK’s roadmap. 

March 7, 2015 at 8:12 am#3606REPLY

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Frank ShemanskyProduct Management at QuickLogic

Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Industry
Semiconductors
Previous Sensor Platforms (Acquired by Audience, Inc. Aug 2014), Mcube Inc, Lumedyne Technologies
Education Arizona State University
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Have enjoyed multifunctional roles from groundbreaking R&D to technical business development in MEMS, sensor, semiconductor, and biotechnology industries including 5 years of academic research in thin film physics & bioengineering. Have seven issued U.S. patents and co-authored one of the first MEMS textbooks.

• Senior technical professional with a track record of development and program management of advanced and enabling technologies from concept through commercialization, on-time and within budget emphasizing low cost and manufacturability in the earliest stages of design.

• Member of the Motorola team that designed, developed, and brought to market some of the first high volume inertial MEMS products, transforming a concept into a $250M/year business.

• Led team of engineers and scientists that designed and brought to market the smallest commercially available microphone (CMOS integrated MEMS).

• Expert skills in statistical process control, comprehensive design and analysis of experiments, and six sigma philosophy have resulted in high-risk development success within condensed time frames.

• Have managed dozens of successful international programs and joint ventures and have developed and implemented corporation’s program management phase-and-gate methodology.

• Team player with considerable experience in both Fortune 500 corporations and start-up businesses, have authored and implemented technology strategies & roadmaps, created design methodologies, and acted as the interface between manufacturing, the business units, and the design communities.

• Process development expertise particularly in thin films, kinetics, RIE, wet etch, and CVD

Experience
Product Management
QuickLogic
2014 – Present (1 year)|Sunnyvale, CA
VP Business Development
Sensor Platforms (Acquired by Audience, Inc. Aug 2014)
2012 – 2014 (2 years)|San Jose, CA
VP Engineering
Mcube Inc
2011 – 2012 (1 year)|San Jose, CA
Fabless semiconductor start-up developing and manufacturing primarily inertial Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for consumer applications (mobile phones, tablets, laptops, game consoles, etc.) including gaming, image stabilization, and indoor navigation.

VP Engineering
Lumedyne Technologies
2009 – 2011 (2 years)|Greater San Diego Area
Fabless semiconductor start-up developing and manufacturing high performance optically based inertial Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for seismic imaging, inertial navigation, and space based applications.

Director, MEMS Technology Development
Akustica (Acquired by Bosch)
2004 – 2008 (4 years)|Pittsburgh, PA
Director, Microsystems Technology Development
Orchid Cellmark
1999 – 2001 (2 years)|Princeton, NJ
Manager, Sensor Technology/Product Development
Motorola
1990 – 1999 (9 years)|Phoenix, Arizona Area

Use this as a mental model of the sort of people that have joined the QUIK team. Also use it for that guy working on INdoor location( for some time now).
200 man yrs of such folks. 100 for 14 and 100 so far for 15.

Consider that QUIK IS NOT the same company any more with this talent shaping the future, with a solid history of execution.

March 7, 2015 at 8:30 am#3607REPLY

It really great that he spent time in the startup mCUBE, they are in the news a fair bit…

Open publication - Free publishing

tech. (Image: mCube)
Internet of Things mCube Raises $37M to Simplify Chip Manufacturing for ‘Internet of Moving Things’
by John Rath on July 7, 2014
inShare.Silicon Valley-based maker of small motion sensors for the Internet of Things mCube has raised $37 million in a series C funding round to accelerate and expand its monolithic, single-chip design approach that the company says is simple to manufacture and easy to design into a wide range of products.

Building microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as small as sand, the company says that it helps enable an “Internet of Moving Things,” where the movement and context of everyday objects and devices can be measured, monitored and analyzed, generating data and insights that will change consumer experiences.

“mCube is well positioned with the world’s smallest MEMS motion sensors to enable this high-growth new market we refer to as the Internet of Moving Things,” said Ben Lee, president and CEO of mCube. “Virtually anything in motion can benefit from mCube’s high-performance and low-power sensors.”

Founded in 2009 mCube has shipped more than 60 million extremely small semiconductor chips. Accelerometers using its MEMS technology are installed in Android smartphones and tablets.

The company also produces magnetic sensors and the iGyro, a 9 Degrees of Freedom software-based gyroscope.

Original investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers joined this recent round. Early partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, which produces mCube-designed designs, invested invested as well.

Other existing investors that took part in the round include MediaTek, iD Ventures America and DAG Ventures. New investors include Keytone Ventures, SK Telecom (China) Ventures and Korea Investment Partners.

mCube believes the market for moving things is a huge opportunity, and with the funding round it can expand further in the markets for consumer, mobile and wearables, in such areas as 3D gaming on smartphones and tablets, smart watches, automotive or commercial trucking, shipping and sensor tags used in monitoring farm animals.

The chips are small in size, power consumption, and cost — prices range from 30 to 70 cents per chip. The company says its MEMS design represents the next generation of sensors – very small, single-chip MEMS+ASIC devices that are cost effective, consume low power but provide high performance.

“It’s rare for a new MEMS supplier to ramp to high volume quickly as MEMS are typically very complex and hard to manufacture,” said Tony Massimini, CTO for Semico Research. “It’s especially impressive for mCube to ship 60 million units within 2.5 years of product launch. With a proven design that is ground-breaking in terms of its small size, ‘manufacturability’ and high level of integration, mCube will be an important company to watch in MEMS.”