Dana Seccombe has been in
engineering and technical management for 30 years. He graduated from MIT with BS, MS, and EE
degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1972, and spent the bulk of his career at
Hewlett Packard, leaving there as Vice President, and General Manager of the
Inkjet Supplies Business in 1999. He
then served 2 years as Executive Vice President of Applied Science Fiction
Company—leaving there, and founding TacTyx in 2002.
Career highlights:
·
TacTyx
Consulting
for technology companies
·
Applied Science
Fiction (2 years)
Developed
a manufacturable process to develop ordinary film to a digital file in 6
minutes.
Developed
a Kiosk using that technology which could process and print analog film, or
digital files.
Applied
Science Fiction was sold to Kodak in 2003.
·
Hewlett Packard
(27 years)
Inkjet
Supply Business Unit
·
Managed and grew
the Inkjet Supply business from $38M revenue to $5B in 11 years, and from $-10M
to $1.25B profit in the same period.
Efficiently grew the organization from 2 sites and 600 people, to 6
international sites with 10,000 employees and 8 million square feet of space,
while improving productivity 23% per year.
·
Personally made
technology (patent) contributions and developed the business model. Contributed to expanding the business from
home printers to fax, multifunction, large format, business, and photographic
printers.
·
The Inkjet
Supplies Business has contributed over 100 percent of hp’s profit in recent
years. The Inkjet Supplies Business developed the core technology for all hp
inkjet printing.
·
Resolved
antitrust matters, and lead intellectual property efforts regarding Inkjets
(over 400 patents); won over 15 patent matters.
Served
as the Group R&D Manager for all hp peripheral products (2 years). Reported to Dick Hackborn, who later became
Chairman of the hp Board, and Microsoft board member.
Managed
the development of hp’s first RISC computer platforms using proprietary
technology (3 years). Managed 280
people, on 2 sites.
Proposed,
developed and put into production a 1 micron, double metal (tungsten)
proprietary integrated circuit process, and a proprietary 6 chip computer CPU
based on that technology. The technology
became the heart of all hp computers for 10 years. (6 years). Managed 70 people.
Developed
various processes for integrated circuit fabrication, testing, and reliability
improvement (5 years)
Personal Contributions and
Awards
·
At Applied
Science Fiction—steered organization to a higher quality and more
manufacturable photo developing process, and a (kiosk) business model that
could greatly improve business results
·
HP’s Inkjet
Supplies Business---Developed the business and technical strategy for Inkjet
Supplies Business. Grew the business to
be hp’s largest, fastest growing, and highest profit business
·
For the Inkjet
Business: resolved antitrust, patent
infringement and licensing in hp’s favor
·
Developed all of
hp’s first generation RISC computers (hardware)
·
Developed hp’s
core integrated circuit technology, and proprietary chips, and the worlds first
32b desktop computer
·
Supervised
integrated circuit reliability improvement programs
·
Developed
metallization for an integrated circuit process
·
Lead hp
recruiting at MIT; hired more (top candidates) than any other company for 5
years in a row
·
Won numerous IEEE
awards including:
o
Cledo Brunetti
Award for Outstanding Contributions in
o
Best Paper awards
2 years in a row for papers at the International Solid State Circuit Conference
o
Guest Editor:
Special Issues on Microprocessors (Journal of
o
Chairman: Digital
Subcommittee,
·
Approximately 12
patents issued and applied for
·
Chosen to attend
Stanford Executive Program (SEP ’91), a
10 week ‘mini MBA’
·
At MIT
o
BS, MS, and
Electrical Engineers degree
o
Tau Beta Pi, Eta
Kappa Nu engineering honorary societies
o
National Science
Foundation Fellowship
o
4.8/5 GPA
o
On COOP and
summer jobs, worked at:
1.
Bell Laboratories
(Picturephone; infra-red pumped visible phosphors; GaAs trap quantification)
2.
Lincoln
Laboratories (Far infra-red spectroscopy using Ultra pure Germanium)
3.
RCA Sarnoff
Research Laboratories (developing the first CCD and Thin film CdSe image
sensors)
·
At
o
Cum Laude
o
Schoville Prize
in Mathematics
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Other interests
o
Commercial
Radiotelephone License
o
Wood and metal
working
o
Artificial
Intelligence Programming
o
Numerical
simulations
o
Guitar, Piano
o
Windsurfing,
skiing, running, swimming