To Whom It may Concern

Good People, Dear

I would like to request you to consider this as an application for a suitable position in Computer Sciences Electronics, Math and Engineering, preferably in the areas of teaching and training with applied research. A. My academic background includes:

1. Ph. D, in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, CA 2. MSEE, BSEE and B.S in Mathematics from reputed Universities like IIT 3. More than 30 technical publications in well known journals like IEEE 4. Teaching experience of more than 22 years in challenging positions 5. Several distinctions of Fellowship: Technical Societies, National Awards et al B. I have been teaching at the Senior, Junior and Sophomore levels of BSEE and BSCE, for the last 22 years. I have taught several courses: Basic Computer Labs/Science, Basic Electronics; Analog, Digital and Industrial Controls, Computer Architecture/Algorithms, Linear Equations, Mathematics, and Computer Networking. I won the best teacher awards at ITT Technical Institute, Santa Clara, CA and at MSR Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

C. I do my best to follow the six (6) Cardinal principles of teaching: Teaching competently and enthusiastically, using technology tools for delivery, providing extra help for learning, motivating and inspiring students, caring and encouraging students, constantly developing and acquiring new technology tools relevant to the learning process, and tutoring students to stay even with their classmates.

D. More recently, I won a Toshiba America grant of $50,000 and established a Computer-Based Science (CBS) Lab for Physics (nearly 20 essential concepts). I extended this approach to teach both Electronics and Electrical Engineering courses. I have won another grant amount of $30,000

(for one year) to establish a multimedia computer lab to train nearly 100 teachers to use technology tools (computers, graphics tablets, printers, scanners, digital/video/video cameras, power-point presentations with a PC and an LCD projector, and Internet) to enhance the productivity of teaching and the efficiency of student learning. I use these multi-media teaching tools every day of classes. I have enclosed a copy of my bio-data for your consideration. I will be happy to furnish additional details as per your email or telephone communication. May I request you for an early communication? Thank you for your kind consideration. Sincerely,

Nrmantena

P.S. I would appreciate a face-to-face meeting to present my credentials and all experience related to hands-on training in face-to-face and hybrid-/online-modes

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Resume of Dr.Neil R. Mantena

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* Over 45 years of progressive growth with excellent track record of R&D from concept of design and engineering to production and marketing in the Computer controls, Consumer and Industrial Electronics

* Excellent communication skills: oral and Written; Wrote a few successful grant proposals

* Industry-centered Hardware and Software development skills with excellent product accomplishments

* Established and finely-tuned teaching experience of more than 22 years w TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development of Semiconductor Devices, IC s, Quartz Watches, Photo Voltaic devices and subsystems; Systems developed include Computer controlled manufacturing, Time measuring Devices, Product Costing and Management (on IBM PC and PDP-11) and Computer Modeling of device-circuit interactions.

Languages: C/C++, FORTRAN, ALGOL, PASCAL, UNIFY, dBase Software: MS OFFICE 2007, AUTOCAD, CAI, CBL, Office 2013 Operating System: MS-DOS, SCO UNIX, WINDOWS 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 10 Hardware: IBM 360, PDP-11, Burroughs 5500, IBM PC, TDC 12, MACINTOSH Publications: 30 Technical journal articles and many technical reports EXPERIENCE

8/96-now: 1. Professor, Electronics & Computer Technology @ Los Angles South West College

Teaching of several courses in Electronics, Industrial and Computer Technology

Have a tenured, FT position which is a quite challenging and satisfying

Recently started teaching Wind and Solar – Energy courses 10/94-10/96: 2. Computer Business College, San Jose and ITT Technical Institute, Santa Clara, CA

Teaching of four modules (Electricity/ Electronics/ Industrial/ Digital Electronics) and Computer labs;

taught Math at Freshman/Sophomore level.

Encouraged computer aided Instruction (CAI) wherever possible. 11/87-10/96: 3. MSR Institute of Technical, Bangalore Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Teaching of Computer Science courses and R&D Work on RDBS. Courses taught include Operating Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, Application programming, Computer Organization, Operations Research, applied and basic math.

Guided several tens of students for their BS (CSE) project work 1/85-11/87: 4. HMT Limited Bangalore

HMT Ltd, with sales of over $2000 million, is a high-tech company well-known for world-class manufacturing of mechatronic products and systems. a. General Manager, Computer Numerical Control Systems (CNC Systems)

Responsible for the Budgeting and Operational results of the Division Consistently

Produced 15% profit on sales and managed over 30 Engineers and 60 Employees.

Implemented a manufacturing project for microprocessor-based control systems used in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), and developed applications for CAM

Introduced Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) concepts to produce mechanical, electronic and Electro- mechanical parts for the mechanical and electronic engineering industry. 6/79-12/84 b) General Technical Manager: Quartz Watches and Related Components Pioneered the design and manufacture of Quartz Watches and established a 90 percent market share in the country. Developed and produces several new components including Electronic Circuit Block (ECB), Quartz Crystal and Stepper motor. 10/74-6/79: 5. Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation (APDIC, Hyderabad): Project Manager

Successfully promoted and implemented several Electronics projects from Concept to production within cost and time schedules

Developed and implemented software packages for projects scheduling, monitoring and management

Became quite knowledgeable in project financing, cash-flow crunch, DCF, NPV and IRR 4/70-10/74: 6. Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad, Technical Manager, Semiconductors

Contributed to the development of new semiconductor Devices like High Power Transistors

Implemented several R&D projects in the area of Microelectronics

Managed an R&D team of 10 engineers and 25 technicians with 10% of division’s budget 12/65-12/69: 7. Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA. Research Engineer, Research and Development, HP Labs

Developed IC ( Ga As /Silicon) technology for Night Vision Use of Army Electronics Command

Proved the feasibility of Infrared to vision light conversion using array of photo-diodes, linear ICs and light emitting diodes (LED) for use in Night Vision Goggles

Worked on MOS-IC Technology, Optoelectronics, and Microwave (Transistor & GaAs Gunn Effect Devices, Achieved optimization of parameters for nonlinear operation of active devices to maximize efficiency and power); used simulation techniques for interaction of circuits with non-linear, time-dependent devises at EHF 1/65-1/66 : 8. University of California, Berkeley, CA. Assistant Professor, EECS dept

Worked on Electron-beam energy conversion devices and made original contributions to the understanding of noise reduction in microwave amplifiers and oscillators used in Satellite communications in space

Taught undergraduate courses for 1 year in the EECS Dept, including the labs 9/61-12/64: 9. Research Assistant, Electronics Research Laboratory, Univ. of California @ Berkeley, CA

Achieved significant improvement in the performance of experimental microwave amplification

Contributed to building devices with improved performance parameters: Gain and Reduced Noise

Worked day and night doing controlled and reproducible experiments to prove theory EDUCATION

Ph.D. (EECS-1996), UC Berkeley: GPA 3.7/40

MS (ECE-1961), IIT Kharagpur: GPA 3.65/4.0 Rank 1/20 BS (EE-1960), MIT Madras GPA 3.7/4.0 Rank 1/40

BS (Math-1957), Andhra University: GPA 3.8/4.0 Rank 1/40

* Distinctions

-Won several scholarship which provided 90% support over many years of studies

-Member, Robotics and Manufacturing Automation: Science Advisory Council (1987)

-British Council Fellowship at Henley Management College (1986)

-Fellow of IETE and IEE since 1979 and 1985 respectively

-Won the “Sir J. C. Bose award of IETE, 1983” for the best article in engineering

-Won the “best teacher award of IT” for AY 1995

-Tons of patience for dedicated hard-work directed toward positive results

-Excellent communication skills: Written and Spoken References: Provided on request

List of Technical Journal Publications of Dr. N.R. Mantena (NRM) 1. Characteristic features of “Emotional Intelligence and their application in real-life situations with examples”, Proceedings of the Institute of Professional Engineers (Hyderabad)….June 2015, July 2014 and January 2013 1. NRM, “Concentrated Solar Power, CSP, as an immediately usable renewable-energy source, “Technical Seminar paper presented to the Deans, Faculty and Research Staff of Raghu College of Engineering & Technology, Visakhapatnam, Jan. 2010

2. NRM, “positive impact of Renewable energy on reversing carbon-dioxide emission and accumulation, “Technical paper presented at the global-climate change conference at Andhra University, Walter (Oct. 2009) 3. NRM, “Wind and Solar-energy utilization in place of oil-and coal-based energy generation to reverse global- Climate change “, Technical paper presented at the conference of Vice-Chancellor, Deans and Chairs/faculty members of GITAM University, Rishi Konda (Waltair), Dec. 2009. 4. NRM & FL, “challenge to Engineering Education-Mastering Mathematics, “ASEE proceedings (1996) 5. NRM, “RDBMS for on-line generation of Transcripts, “ Comad 91, Bangalore, 1991. 6. NRM & GM Ajit, “Impact of Software on Automation”, Techno vision, pp.9-12, Mar ’87. 7. “High power Microwave Transistors,” IETE Tech. Review, pp-39-49, Feb. ’83. 8. “IR Image Sensing & Conversion into visible light”, JIETE pp.71-76, Feb, ’83. 9. NRM & SP Mehra. “CAD/CAM practice in Watch Industry”, Proc, of Computer Soc., 1982. 10. NRM et al, “CAD/CAM for PCB Mfng”, Proc. Of National Workshop, Bangalore, April ’82. 11. “Electronics Watch-Functions & Applications”, HMT Tech, Journal. Pp.15-23, May ‘81 12. “Direct Conversion of Solar Energy into Electricity with PV Cells” Proc. Of IEE, 1979. 13. “Role of Electronics Industry in India”, APIDC Horizon. October 1978. 14. “Development of Electronic Industry in Andhra Pradesh”, Industrial Times, May ’76. 15. “Production of Marine Electronic Equipment”, National Seminal (Bombay), 1975. 16. “Sensitive Raw Material for the Semiconductor Industry”, Proc. Of MIT symp, Feb. ’75. 17. “Semiconductors in Control Electronics”, pp.7-9, EC News, Nov-Dec. ’70. 18. “Microelectronics and IC Technology”, pp.96-98, Proc of Nat Conf., June 1970. 19. “Low Noise Preamp. for the Thermopile”, Application Note, HP Labs., Mar. ’70. 20. NRM & J.S. Barrera, “Meas. of Schottky Barrier Edge capacitance correction’. IEEE Trans. On ED Jan ’70. 21. NRM & RC Lucas, “Experimental Study of flicker noise in MIS-FETs”. Electronics Letters, 1969. 22. “Sources of Noise in Transistors”, pp.8-11, HP Journal, Oct, ’69. 23. NRM & E.E. Loebner, “Noise in Zn-doped Si Photoconductors:” Proc, of Intl Conf, @ Stanford, 1969. 24. M.L Wright & NRM, ”LSA Mode Calc. Using a simple Computer Model”, IJE” July ’69. 25. NRM & M.L. Wright, “Circuit Model/Computer Simulations of Gunn Effect Devices”, IEEE Trans., on Microwave Techniques, Aug. ’69.

26. NRM & T. Van Duzer, “Reduction of noise in Z-field Microwave Amplifiers. IEEE Trans., Mar.’69. 27. NRM, “Transfer Equations of EXB Drift Regions”, IEEE Transactions on ED. Oct. 1969. 28. TVD. NRM & A. Sasaki, “X-field Noise studies: Guns & Transducers”, Proc, of Int’l Conf, on Microwave Devices, Paris (1965).

29. NRM & T. Van Duzer, ‘X-Field BW Amplifier NF Studies”, JEC, May ’1964 30. NRM & TVD, ”Low Noise & Space-Change Smoothing in X-Field Amplifier”, IEEE ’63.

** Won “Sir J.C. Bose Memorial Award” for 1983 as best application-oriented technical paper SWOT Analysis of a Career spanning over several decades Strengths: 1. Excellent academic qualifications with a Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley 2. R&D experience of more than ten years, both academic and industrial 3. Published more than thirty technical articles in reputed journals 4. Ran industrial units successfully and profitably for more than 15 years 5. Teaching experience of about twenty years in Electronics and Computer Technology: DC, AC, Analog, Digital and Microcomputer applications 6. Setting up labs for Electronics, Computer servicing and networking 7. Communication skills of a high order: both verbal and written 8. Good experience of using CAI and Computer-based hands-on labs (CBL) 9. Change is the driving force of our daily lives and of education; I am quite comfortable with changes in course contents and methods of Instruction that have an impact on student learning 10. Cultivation of team spirit and working in small problem-solving teams Weakness: Impatience in getting things done on schedule and within budget amounts Opportunities: 1. New programs and related courses on renewable energy 2. Natural-language processing of computer instructions 3. Computer Based Labs (CBL) will make concept-learning a little easier 4. Renewable Energy courses on Wind Energies, Solar Power and Bio-fuels have great potential as new programs that can lead to exciting new careers

5. Hands-on technical and vocational skills are needed for the renewable-energy industry in view of the likely caps on carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions 6. Renewable-energy labs are capital-intensive but several state and federal grants are available on a competitive-bidding basis to set up these labs

7. Mentoring and providing Career guidance on a routine, friendly basis Threats: 1. Growing global competition in educational services and tutoring over web 2. Aversion of students for science and Engineering study 3. Energy security and global scrambling for energy resources 4. Inflationary economics causing general financial distress 5. Insufficient funding for vocational and technical training of students 6. Non-availability of good teachers for engineering and technical instruction Working With Culturally Diverse Classrooms- The Enriching Experience of Diversity The brave, new world has brought into sharp focus the working idea of a global community with a world-wide supply of ideas, services and products. A major byproduct of this international interaction is diversity and its complexity I feel quite comfortable working with students coming from a wide variety of cultural, economic and social backgrounds. My comfort with diversity is related to the fact that I am a progressive, proactive professional with patience and positive feelings at the core. I note that different cultural groups have different learning styles and that, as a teacher, I must be able to respond to the varying needs. I have been able to do this quite successfully over the many years of my active working life. Examples:

1. oing to UC Berkeley for more than 4 years for my Ph.D., Berkeley campus is probably the most culturally diverse place among the world’s best Universities. I greatly profited from this experience, which also enriched my lifestyle. 2. Working for 25 years at LA Southwest College, a melting pot of diversity and multi-cultural fruitful interactions A sample Commendation letter

M. S. RAMAIAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Computer Engineering & Science

GOKULA EXTENSION : BANGALORE-560 054.

Ref . No. ECE/GKB-95/SC 14

Date. 10/31/1994

To Whom It May Concern This is to certify that Dr. N. R. Mantena has worked in this accredited four-year degree Engineering College, affiliated to the Bangalore University, as a Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering for several years starting from November 1, 1987 and ending on October 31, 1994. Dr. Mantena worked as a full-time senior faculty member and he was a popular teacher as also a valuable colleague to all the teachers who worked along with him. He interacted well with the local industry, and helped many of the graduating students with Training and Placement. I wish him well for his future career growth.

(Dr. G. K. Bhagvat)

Chair, Electronics & Computer Engineering

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