Please tell us about your professional experience and how it has related to Tekmos.

As a teenager active in ham radio, I became interested in electronics and communications. One of my side hobbies back in the day was to acquire very heavy military transmitters and receivers that were surplused and sold by the pound.   It was a lot of fun to salvage the good components and use them in my homebrew projects or sell them to friends for their projects.  Although I enjoyed the theory and practice of hardware engineering, I was destined to work in the business side of electronics as I enjoyed Sales.  

After completing a Bachelors in Marketing at Penn State I went to work in marketing at Western Electric.  Western Electric was the manufacturing arm of the Bell System and a melting pot of technology. Western Electric developed and manufactured a wide range of technology that spanned from the beginning of time for communications equipment to the most advanced chip technology.  For a few years they had one factory that produced vacuum tubes, transistors and integrated circuits all under one roof. Eventually the laws of obsolescence came into being and the tubes and transistors had to go.  The realities and challenges of managing obsolescence were very apparent, especially if you had to support equipment with long product life cycles.

 
In my career I was also fortunate to work with many talented people at VLSI Technology and later on, Orbit Semiconductor. The experiences at VLSI Technology enabled me to help customers design in the new and most advanced chip technologies into products including the marketing of what later became ARM Ltd cores into ASICs.  At Orbit Semiconductor I was involved in developing sales for a semiconductor company which specialized in FPGA conversions that enabled customers to lower their device and system costs.  These experiences required marketing and developing sales directly with major customers as well as developing channels to include distributors and manufacturers representatives to expand the marketing of our products and services.  

In coming to Tekmos, it was a great opportunity to develop marketing and sales programs for a small start up that was very talented in chip engineering solutions and very committed to customer service and delivering products to the customer's complete satisfaction.  This commitment to engineering and making the product work in the customers system, no matter how difficult the problem or how long it took, distinguished Tekmos in the industry.

 
We are proud to serve our customers with highly reliable devices that support their products for many years to come and provide them with options to better manage the life cycles for their product lines.

I would like to thank all of our customers over the years for their support and to send Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year from everyone at Tekmos.