Owner of ***** ***** Systems, a consultancy company. Provide technical consultation in the area of scale up of ***** ***** processes for production. Clients include(d) a kitchenware manufacturer, an electrical power supply company, a battery start-up, a solar start-up and a venture capitalist.

BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical Division, now: the IMA Group (September 2006 - January 2011)
Global Director of Technology. Technology roadmapping and management of the product range, technology development and acquisition, new product development and engineering execution. Product control on three continents (Europe, USA, China), intellectual property management.

BOC Edwards Corporate Technology, now: the Linde Group (2000 – 2006)
Vice President of Technology and Engineering. Technology roadmap and development, engineering design, new product development and commercialization over a broad spectrum of technologies, intellectual property management. Site Manager of Santa Clara, CA.

BOC Edwards Chemical Management Systems, now: Air Liquide (1997 – 2000)
Vice President of Technology and Engineering. Responsible for the rationalization of the product lines of two acquisitions (Systems Chemistry and FSI): Engineering process and procedures, product standardization, cost reduction.

BOC Coating Technology, now: Applied Materials (inactive) (1993 – 1997)
Director of Technology and Engineering. Site Manager of Concord, CA. Responsible for the development, engineering and commercial implementation of ***** ***** deposition and plasma processing technologies, for the planning and administration of the technical activities of about 80 people in 2 organizations and 4 locations in the USA and UK. Operating budget responsibility of about $10M. Managed major down-sizings of the Company and its rebuilding into a more efficient and effective organization.

The BOC Group, Technology Center, Murray Hill, NJ (1990 – 1993)
Section Manager of Gases and Vacuum Products, providing the technical direction and overall management of the ***** *****s Group. Responsible for program planning and technology transfer to the operating divisions and support of critical technologies at Airco Coating Technology (CA) and Edwards High Vacuum International (UK).

Ph. D. in Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Research of the optical and mechanical properies of ***** *****s. Dissertation: "Diffuse Optical Scattering from ***** *****s", in-situ optical scattering and deconvolution of the growth morphology of ***** copper *****s.

Ingenieur's Diploma from the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands with a specialization in ***** ***** processing and hybrid microcircuitry. Thesis: "Electrical Conductivity of Sputtered SiO2 *****s"

American Vacuum Society (AVS), organizational office functions at local and national level. ***** ***** Division Chairman (1989). National Program Chairman (Toronto, 1990). US representative to the ***** ***** Division of the International Union of Vacuum Science, IUVSTA (*****). Short Course instructor. Now Emiritus Member of AVS and still a frequent reviewer for professional journals.

Lectures and teaches courses in ***** ***** and vacuum technology worldwide (USA, Canada, Singapore, and Europe):
- Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications.
- ***** ***** Technology: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications.
- Vacuum Technology for Technicians