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   jfiebWell-Known Member

   
   

   up from the musty archives for rereading while waiting for this show....
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Sunday, March 8, 2015
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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.
   
   
   
   Director, MEMS Technology Development
   Akustica (Acquired by Bosch)
   2004 – 2008 (4 years)
   

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   So that Bosch mic that is on the reference design...
   
   Yup Frank S had a hand in it most likey got it started...
   
   & Analysis
   
   Bosch acquires MEMS microphone pioneer Akustica
   
   R. Colin Johnson
   
   

   
   
   
   Akustica has since developed MEMS microphones and has sold over 5 million CMOS microphones for consumer devices like PCs and cell phones. Although several other MEMS microphone makers have entered the market, Akustica is so far the only company that integrates both the mechanical microphone and its supporting analog and digital circuitry onto the same CMOS chip.
   
   you see it over and over. The coral reef is small enough that they all know each other. Nice.