The following are the section OpComm positions for which we would hold elections for 2011. The candidate bio/statements are also provided here. The section members will be intimated once the online tools are setup and open for voting. Once started the deadline for voting would be midnight MST on Dec 3rd.midnight MST on Dec 3rd. Please vote the URL below:
https://voting.vtools.ieee.org/
Chair: Chris Gunning, Randy Wolff
Vice-Chair: Shyam Surthi, Perry Lea
Secretary: Kristen Hopper, Joe Rekiere
Treasurer: Gary Ashton, Huy Le
Chris Gunning is the current section chair of the IEEE Boise Section. Previously, he was the section secretary and the chair of the Boise Computer Society chapter. He has been an IEEE member for 25 years. Chris has a BSCS from MIT and an MSEE from Stanford. After serving in the US Air Force for ten years, Chris joined HP in 1992, where he currently is the security firmware architect for enterprise LaserJet products. He lives in Boise with his wife, daughters, and two neurotic cats.
Randy Wolff has worked in various engineering positions at Micron Technology since 2000 and currently leads a component modeling team within the Signal Integrity R&D group. He graduated cum laude from Montana State University with a BSEE in 1999. He is currently the Boise section treasurer and has previously been the GOLD affinity group chair and chair of the Montana State University student section.
Shyam Surthi is a Senior Process Integration Engineer with the DRAM process R&D team at Micron Technology, Inc. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama. At Micron, Shyam has been a part of the thin films process development team and is currently leading the module development and electrical characterization of next generation DRAM. He has co-authored 24 referred publications in journal and conference proceedings and has 10 US patents/applications.
Shyam has been actively involved with the IEEE Electron Devices Society Boise chapter and the Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED) since 2004 and was the General Chair of WMED-2009 held on April 3, 2009 in Boise. He is currently the EDS Boise Chapter Chair as well as the Vice-chair of the Boise section. During last two years, he has led the Senior Member drive and increased the Senior member count of chapter/section from 40 to 60.
Perry Lea is a master architect working at Hewlett Packard. His main interests are deeply embedded design, imaging, and heterogeneous multiprocessing. He has a number of patents, pending patents, trade secret technologies and numerous defensive publications. He has been an IEEE and ACM member for 17 years and was elected to senior standing in the IEEE in 2002. He also was one of the founders of the IEEE Computer Society in Boise and served as officer and chair. He has a BS Computer Science, MS Computer Engineering and recently obtained his postgraduate EngD at Columbia University. He currently lives in Eagle Idaho with his wife.
Kristen Manon McNair Hopper, an IEEE Senior Member, is the present IEEE Boise Section Secretary and Client SSD Strategic Marketing Manager at Micron Technology, Inc. She recently served as the European Automotive Customer Marketing Manager at Analog Devices’ Micromachined Products Division in Cambridge, MA. She previously worked in Engine Management at Infineon Technologies in Munich, Germany, as Technical Marketing Staff Engineer, at Delphi Technical Centre in Luxembourg as an Electronics Systems Engineer and at Delphi in Indiana as Advanced IC Project Engineer and MEMS Process Engineer. Mrs. Hopper received her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Joe Rekiere works as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard in their storage works division. He currently serves as Boise Computer Society treasurer and the Boise section PACE chair. He is a past section newsletter editor and has held officer postions in the Boise Computer Society as chair, treasurer and speaker chair. He received BSEE and MCS degrees from Arizona State University. He holds a CSDP from the IEEE Computer Society.
Dr. Gary Ashton has been an IEEE member for twenty years and active in the Boise Section for the last several years with activities including the FY2010 financial audit and compiling election results. His career includes PhD and MS degrees in Physics, an MS degree in Image Science, and a BS degree in Physics and Mathematics. He has been involved in research and development in multiple technologies and products at 3M, Imation, Compaq Computer, and Hewlett Packard and has seven patents.
Huy Le, Ph.D. has been working in the industry for 20 years. His experiences include VLSI reliability engineering and device physics, wire-line and wireless data communication engineering. He has published a number of technical articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is currently with Micron Technology, and a senior member of the IEEE.Huy Le, Ph.D. has been working in the industry for 20 years. His experiences include VLSI reliability engineering and device physics, wire-line and wireless data communication engineering. He has published a number of technical articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is currently with Micron Technology, and a senior member of the IEEE.
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