Lee
Lee has spent most of his career in startups or consulting for startups which is a considerably different environment than Intel and Xerox PARC, two of the larger companies where he was employed. Invariably, he was the only development engineer or occasionally, a member of a small team, which places a special demand upon his skills and abilities: there is no B team to fall back on and there are no second chances.
At Momentum Computers the management hitched their wagon to a brightly burning star, Solo Systems. As the engineer and team leader Lee had four months to develop a completely new workstation from scratch or the company would face a failure in its new round of funding. The team came through on time and celebrated an early Christmas with champagne and turkey.
At Curtis/PMC he developed their first digital motor controller for vehicles and subsequently a family of controllers still used today. Lee left Curtis and formed an LLC to develop heavy duty motor controllers for on-road vehicles. He got a DARPA grant and successfully developed the controller under budget and ahead of schedule. Unfortunately the market driver, California’s EV mandate, faded out and dried up any enthusiasm for electric vehicles at that time(the operation was successful, but the patient died).
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, was a fun place to be. Lee worked on robotics, solar projects and massively paralleled system using multiple fast networks and fast embedded computers which he designed and programmed.
Lee has obtained patents in motor control, solar power, electronic paper, and advanced printing technology.