Randy Andrews

J. Randolph Andrews received his B.S M.E in 1981, B.S E.E in 1983 from

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Andrews spent 4 years at

Hewlett Packard’s corporate research laboratory in the Applied

Physics Research center as well as the manufacturing research

center. The following 4 year period was spent with Galil Motion

Control.

In July 1991, Mr. Andrews founded douloi Automation, Inc. to provide

motion control hardware and software solutions for use with

Microsoft Windows and Windows NT. Professional interests include

motion control, software/electrical/mechanical system design

tradeoffs, high abstraction programming, real-time programming,

and visual programming techniques and tools.

TECH

Jennifer Apy

Jennifer Apy has a computer science and cognitive science

undergraduate degree, and Stanford MBA. Upon graduation, she

joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in their IT consulting

division. Ms. Apy then moved into marketing, but now, 20 years into

her career, she finds that the social media era has required her

understanding of computer programming and relational database

concepts more than she would have imagined. “The message I

would like to deliver to students, is that a STEM major can lead to

MANY careers, and can be a real differentiator in careers such as

marketing and business management.”

TECH

Pat Bournes

Pat Bournes has 30 years of product development experience. He

worked as a co-op for the CIA to pay his way through college. After

that, he moved in and out of classified government work and Silicon

Valley startups. Have worked on multi-billion dollar spy satellites,

CIA covert gear, robotics, micro-satellites and wooden toys.

TECH

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Jennifer Carlson

Jennifer Carlson dreamed of being an engineer when she was a little

girl in China, and has lived her dream for the past 25 years. Her

passion is to make technology easier for humans to use. Ms. Carlson

is now leading a team consisting of researchers, interaction

designers, usability engineers, a visual designer, a prototyper, a

research participant recruiter, and a project manager.

Engineering

Christine Chan

Christine Chan was born in Taiwan and grew up in New York

City. She attended Cornell University and majored in Animal

Sciences, staying on at Cornell and receiving her Doctor of

Veterinary Medicine degree four years later.

After eight years of snow and ice (and beautiful fall colors), Dr. Chen

says that she “decided she needed more sun and moved out to the

Bay Area!” She has been practicing as a small animal veterinarian

since, seeing mostly dogs and cats in a private animal hospital. She

works part time, which gives her the “flexibility to do volunteer work

and take care of my family (husband, three children, and a cat!).”

Medical

Geoff Chatterton

Educated at M.I.T., Geoff Chatterton is a technology executive and

entrepreneur focused on consumer hardware and software product

development. Mr. Chatterton served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy,

and began his career at Apple. He was a founder of Duff Research,

which was acquired by PayPal. He is currently the head of PayPal’s

Labs.

Engineering

Julie Chen

Julie Chen is a general pediatrician practicing in the same medium-

sized practice for the last 20 years in Los Altos. She has a BS in Biology

from Stanford University and an MD from Baylor College of Medicine

(in Houston). She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Lucile

Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

Medical

Fred Cheng

Fred Cheng majored in Mechanical Engineering entering college

because he liked the mechanics portion of my high school physics

class. But, discovering that he “wasn't really cut out for” mechanical

engineering in grad school, so he switched to computer science.

Since then, Mr. Cheng has worked at a variety of software

companies, from startups to large companies, and now works at a

large web company where he works on products that hundreds of

millions of people use. “Plus my company pampers us with free

gourmet meals and drinks and massages.”

Engineering

Liz Cox

Elizabeth (Liz) Cox is a RDN (Registered Dietitian Nutritionist). She has

worked in a variety of health care settings over the past 30 years,

doing personalized nutrition counseling, teaching in corporate

wellness, and writing for local community newspapers. She currently

works on a contract basis for 6 health care communities in the local

Bay Area. Mrs. Cox earned bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Science

with a minor in Chemistry from San Jose State University and

completed her dietetics internship at UC Berkeley.

Medical

Brian DuBois

Brian DuBois has worked for medical device companies ranging in

size from three employees to several thousand employees over the

last 24 years. He has been involved in the introduction of over three

dozen medical devices and holds over 30 US and international

patents for products in a variety of surgical specialties including

cardiac bypass surgery, spine and back pain, general surgery,

gynecology, endoscopy, and Ear, Nose, and Throat. He is currently

the Vice President of Research & Development for a small medical

device company that is developing products to improve the lives of

patients suffering from sinus and nasal diseases.

Medical/Bio Med Engineering

Shalan Ertis

In 2012, Shalan Ertis graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a

bachelors of science in mechanical engineering. After working on

school projects and having internships and jobs in a variety of

industries,he landed at a product development consultancy working

as a mechanical engineer. At Design 2 Matter, “we help clients

invent stuff by creating products that are interesting and

relevant.” He is experienced with the design process, from ideation

to design for manufacturing, and uses Solid Works (3D CAD software)

and creating prototypes with our 3D printers.

Engineering

Martin Gates

After graduating from UC Berkeley with a BA in Computer Science,

Martin Gates worked at HP developing CAD software for integrated

circuit design. After 7 years, he joined a startup developing pen-

based computers – EPIC FAIL! At Intuit, he worked on Pocket

Quicken for handheld devices, and later managed parts of the

QuickBooks small business accounting package. That experience

prepared him to co-found a company that developed a SaaS

payroll service that was ultimately purchased by Intuit and is known

as Intuit Online Payroll. Mr. Gates now advises startups and writes iOS

apps for fun.

Engineering

Hannah Williams

Hannah Williams is a software engineer specializing in firmware,

which programs the hardware. She has previously worked on

firmware for devices like set top box, Blue Ray player, and internet

routers. She is currently working at Intel on firmware for Chrome Book.

Engineering

Jeff Haynie

Jeff Haynie is a seasoned technology executive and serial

entrepreneur. Currently an executive vice president at Axway, his

specialties include opensource software, and mobile, tablet and

alternate screen technologies and trends. He was a co-founder and

the CEO of Appcelerator, the leading platform for rapidly

developing native and web-based mobile applications and cloud

services

Engineering

Darren Heeke

Darren Heeke currently holds the position of Scientist at MedImmune,

a Biologics drug development company, owned by one of the top

ten pharmaceutical companies in the world called AstraZeneca. As

a scientist, Mr. Heeke works on advancing antibody molecules to the

clinic which will help fight cancers such as melanoma and lung

cancer, infectious diseases such as HBV and influenza, autoimmune

disorders like lupus and arthritis. Many of the day to day aspects of

his position involve working with human, monkey and mouse immune

cells and applying cutting edge genomic, proteomic and cellular

technologies to investigate immune responses.

Science

Dean Hung

Dean Hung received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University,

where he studied molecular signaling pathways controlling bacterial

cell division. He has been a co-founder of multiple

biotech/pharmaceutical startups involved in developing products

ranging from software, dermatology, and ophthalmology. Dr. Hung

enjoys observing the real-life effects of genetics in orchids, dogs, and

humans. Both of his kids are current TKA students.

Science

John Hurley

John Hurley is a mathematician and programmer, and he currently

work at Apple doing low-level security infrastructure code for iOS

and OSX. He uses C, C++, Ruby and Python for programming. "I have

a Ph.D. in Mathematics from SUNY at Stony Brook, and a Certificate

in Quantitative Finance. I have recently taken classes in data

science and am halfway through a specialization in Machine

Learning with the University of Washington.

He has a son who is a successful motion graphics artist and his

daughter, Jinju, is in the tenth grade at TKA. His other interest include:

learning languages, photography, horseback riding, and travel.

Science

Edward Jacobs

Edward Jacobs has had 30 years of experience in all phases of

digital hardware chip design. Chip functionality includes CPU, WiFi,

security, display touch sensor, network routers, and others. He has

experience at 50-person startup companies and 30,000-person large

firms.

Engineering

Dave Jensen

Dave Jensen and his wife, Barb, are the proud parents of a current

TKA student and two alumni. Mr. Jensen has a bachelor’s degree

from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a mechanical engineering

degree from Santa Clara University. He is currently a senior manager

in hardware engineering at Varian, a medical device company.

Engineering

Kelly Johnson

Kelly Johnson has been an embedded systems software engineer for

3 decades, designing software that is embedded inside devices like

cell phones and GPS receivers. He’s worked for 4 startup companies

and 4 public companies, and has been working on location

technology (including GPS receivers) at Qualcomm, Inc. for the past

13 years. If you own a cell phone, then you have almost certainly

used his software

Engineering

Ken Knaus

Ken Knaus graduated from M.I.T. with degrees in Electrical

Engineering and Mathematics. He joined Hewlett Packard in 1982

and has been there ever since. His department serves as the "CSI" for

HP. To execute on this, sophisticated instrumentation is involved that

requires knowledge of physics, chemistry, and electrical and

mechanical engineering principles to interpret their output. His job

affords exposure to a host of engineering disciplines and constant

challenges from new product technologies.

Engineering

Leeanne Knaus

As a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania, LeeanneKnaus

practiced physical therapy for over 30 years. She has owned her

own practice for 20 years. Working with professional athletes,

musicians, and weekend warriors, her specialty is orthopedic and

sports rehabilitation

Medical

Mike Leary

Mike Leary received his B.S.E.E degree from the University of

Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. He has worked in the semiconductor

industry for over 30 years at such companies as Digital Equipment

Corporation, ATI, AMD,Silicon Valley startups and now Xilinx. Mr.

Leary enjoys working on technology that everyone can use, such as

AMD microprocessors and Xilinx FPGAs, which are in self-driving cars,

Martian exploration vehicles, gaming platforms. He has been

involved with the MESA program at San Jose State, working with high

school students in STEM

Engineering

Greg Liu

Greg Liu works in Medical Devices as a manager at Verily Life

Sciences, which is part of Alphabet, the parent company for

Google, Google[x], Nest, and the Self Driving Car. He helps out with

partnerships, program management, testing, manufacturing, some

advanced R&D initiatives, and product feasibility. Mr. Liu

occasionally uses what he learned from his Bachelor's and Master's

degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford (Go Cardinal!),

where he accepted Christ and met his wife Mina. Together they

have three children, the oldest of whom, Miya, is in seventh grade at

Kings (Go Sevvies!).

Technology

Dennis Majchrowicz

Dennis Majchrowicz attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign (a Big Ten school) and received a Bachelor of Science

degree in Metallurgical Engineering (the study of metals).

His first job was working for U.S. Steel in Chicago. He quit it, came to

California to visit a classmate, and began working for Lockheed

Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) in Sunnyvale. Other than a brief

stint at Raychem Corporation in Menlo Park, working on UV-curable

polymers, he has spent nearly his entire career in the Material and

Process Control Laboratories” of Lockheed Martin.

Science

Grace Leung-Marshall

Grace Leung-Marshall is the mother of a TKA Freshman. She has

been an engineer at Cisco Systems for 15 years. Ms. Leung-Marshall’s

current position is Technical Leader at the company's Cloud and

Visualization Technology Group, where her primary focus is in the

design and architecture of software defined controllers for the

networks.

She received a B.S. Computer Science and a Master in

Telecommunications at the University of California, San Diego. “I look

forward to sharing my career experience with you!”

Engineering

Brad Ostman

Brad Ostman currently is a Sales Executive for Pleora Technologies, a

high performance video interface company in the automation,

military and medical markets.

Prior to this, Mr. Ostman held various positions, including Director of

Sales & Marketing for BAE Systems, which included imaging products

from aerospace & defense, scientific cameras and dental X-ray

systems, among others. Prior to BAE Systems he served as Director of

Sales and Marketing at Fairchild Imaging in the aerospace &

defense business segment. He has also held other leadership roles

with Loral and Northrop Grumman.

Mr. Ostman holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business

Administration from California State University Chico.

Tech

Andreas Ott

Andreas Ott studied theoretical physics (masters) at the University of

Stuttgart in Germany, with minors in chaos theory and analog/digital

signal processing. He co-founded a consulting company producing

the first internet connectivity software kit for the German Research

Network.

Since 1997, Mr. Ott has worked in various positions as a network

engineer in Silicon Valley, first for the original consumer broadband

cable modem network; then for startups NetVMG, MetroFi and

PacketDesign. Now at Internap Corporation, Mr. Ott designs and

operates global datacenter networks, providing services to cloud

computing, retail and web commerce, and payment card

processors. He specializes in protocols and security.

Tech

Kevin Scott

Kevin Scott graduated from Stanford University with a BSEE in

Electrical Engineering. After a career-ending knee injury (NFL), he

joined Maxim Integrated Products as an applications engineer.

Maxim specializes in the design and manufacture of mixed signal

(analog and digital) integrated circuits. He remained there for 11

years where in addition to applications, he held the titles of business

manager and product definer for the data converter product group.

Mr. Scott currently works as a senior strategic marketing engineer (14

years) at Linear Technology Corporation, where he trains both the

LTC sales team and distribution partners on the company's latest

product releases.

Engineering

Sheela Pillai

Sheela Pillai received a B.Tech degree from The College of

Engineering, Thiruvanathapuram, in Electronics and Communication.

She has been part of the semiconductor industry for over 20 years

working in many Multinational Semiconductor companies (Philips,

Intel, AMD, Altera). She has spear-headed many company initiatives

and led a number of flagship product developments, and has

participated in many Industry leadership panels and symposia.

Ms.Pillai is passionate about chip design, mentoring, coaching and

guiding her team to get the best result while helping to build their

careers.

Engineering

Chris Shols

Besides being a TKA dad to Erika (Class of 2015) and Rebeka (Class

of 2017), Chris Shols has been a business technology advisor to a

variety of hi-tech companies in the valley. He has a BA in Chemistry

from Duke University and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the

Ohio State University. As a mentor to high school and college age

students, Mr. Shols hopes “to encourage this generation to explore

all the possibilities that they may not be aware of as they tap into

their intellectual potential in the world of STEM.”

Engineering

Jonathan Wu

Jonathan Wu is the Sr. Director of Product Management at NETGEAR

for the last 8 years and has played a critical role in growing

NETGEAR’s retail business to the #1 position by expanding into new

geographical territories and entering into new product

categories. Prior to NETGEAR Jonathan worked for Apple, where he

launched the first iPod Touch product. Earlier in Jonathan’s career

he was a software programmer working for Agilent Technologies

where he programmed semiconductor equipments to test FLASH

memories. Mr. Wu has a MSEE from Georgia Tech and a MBA from

Columbia Business School.

Engineering

Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar is the founder and CEO of a data analytics startup. He

previously worked at Cisco Systems in various global roles involving

strategy, engineering and consulting services. Mr. Kumar studied at

USC and Stanford, and specialized in developing new products that

connect the physical world with the digital world; and in cyber

security.

Engineering

Jeff Jasper

Jeff Jasper graduated with a B.S. degree in chemistry from Cal Poly,

San Luis Obispo. He earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology at UCSD’s

School of Medicine and completed his postdoctoral training at

Stanford in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and in the

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. Dr. Jasper is Vice

President of Preclinical Sciences at Revolution Medicines, Inc.

(Redwood City) and has more than 20 years of experience in the

pharmaceutical industry, including Merck & Co. and Roche

Pharmaceuticals. He is co-founder of Altos Therapeutics, devoted to

developing pharmaceuticals for gastrointestinal disorders. Dr. Jasper

hasserved for more than 18 years on the Editorial Board for the

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology and has published

over 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Additionally, for 12 years he instructed the “Molecular

Pharmacology” course for the University of California, Berkeley

Extension.

Science

Sanjeev Kumar

Sanjeev Kumar is a Vice President, and Head of Insurance at Saama

Technologies in Campbell, CA. He is responsible for delivering

innovative data analytics solutions to the industry. Before joining

Saama, Mr. Kumar was the co-founder, COO and board member of

InfoSTEP, a position he held at the time of their acquisition by

Saama. Prior to InfoSTEP, He has served in senior management BI/BA

roles at Silicon Valley mainstay companies Sun Microsystems, SGI,

Applied Materials and CMC Ltd.

Tech

Gregory Niven

Gregory Niven is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for

Necsel. Necsel designs and manufactures high powered

visible lasers. It has become the leader in visible laser system

solutions. Necsel's unique patented technology has transformed

cinema projection and specialty lighting markets. Mr. Niven studied

engineering physics and electrical engineering at the University of

Alberta. He is a TKA parent, and a member of its school board.

Tech

Divas Neupane

Divas Neupane is a senior pharmaceutical scientist at Merck. His

undergraduate degree is in biochemistry (San Francisco State), and

he holds a PhD from Dartmouth Medical School in pharmacology

and toxicology (pancreatic cancer biology). Dr. Neupane focuses

his efforts on therapeutic biologics development.

Science

Stephen Tom

In addition to being a member of TKA's school board, and a TKA

parent, Stephen Tom is the Lead Senior Engineer at Synopsis, Inc. He

is responsible for the development and architecture of core web

applications. Mr. Tom graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in

computer science, and holds several patents.

Engineering

David Young

David Young is a senior software quality & assurance engineer at

Highfive Technologies, Inc. He has a passion for "breaking" software

and using open source tools. Mr. Young has prior experience at

Hewlett Packard and Google, and other companies. He earned his

undergraduate degree in math and computer science at San Jose

State, and he is a TKA parent.

Engineering

Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee has been a business development professional at

Adobe Systems for over 8 years. He received his B.S. in mechanical

engineering from MIT and a M.S. from Stanford University. Joseph

began his career as a hardware support engineer at Applied

Materials, he then transitioned into a product marketing and

business development role at Silicon Image, a semiconductor

company best known for creating the DVI and HDMI standards. At

Adobe, he is responsible for engaging in strategic partnerships that

grow demand for Adobe’s authoring software and cloud services. As

a self-proclaimed nerd, Joseph’s personal interests include playing

video games, building gaming PCs, home automation, and green

technology. He feels immensely blessed to be married with two sons

(Andrew in the TKA 7th grade, and Aiden who will enter TKA’s

6th grade in the fall).

Engineering

Bryant Ling

Bryant Ling holds a B.S. in computer and systems engineering from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he attended through the

NROTC program. He subsequently served in the US Navy as an A-

6E "Intruder" bombardier/navigator before he relocated to Silicon

Valley with a well known government agency. He has two decades

of experience in criminal investigations, computer security, and

digital evidence analysis, and is currently the supervisor of his

agency's digital evidence laboratory

Engineering

Steve Ling

Steve Ling has been at Texas Instruments as Field Application

Engineer for 22 Years and 11 years as a Design Engineer. In both roles

his focus has been on firmware and embedded

processors/microcontrollers. Steve graduated from the University of

Texas, Arlington.

Engineering