President
Shawn Buckley is president of CAItech.
He co-developed CAItech's
technology with Huazhong University of
Science and Technology (HUST). In the 1960's, he was an engineer for
Ford, Lockheed, Westinghouse, General Electric and Grumman before returning
to graduate school at Berkeley. There, he funded his doctoral studies
as a consultant for Group Lotus Car Companies, Ltd. (Wymondham, England).
His doctoral thesis on improving the cornering of racecars won Lotus
the World Driver's Championship in 1978 with Mario Andretti driving.
Most of today's racecars use Buckley's "ground effects"
technology to improve cornering.
As mechanical engineering professor at MIT during the 1970's, Buckley
developed several high technology products. Based on his high
stiffness bicycle frame, he cofounded Klein Corp. (Chehalis, WA), a $10
million bicycle manufacturer recently sold to Trek Bicycle Corp. (Waterloo,
WI). Buckley's solar energy research group at MIT developed a solar
heating panel which was licensed to Chevron (San Francisco, CA); he helped
found Hydro Sun, a Chevron subsidiary that manufactured the product.
In 1982, Buckley founded Cochlea Corp. using the automated inspection
technology he had developed at MIT. Cochlea sold $20 million of
inspection equipment into the automotive parts industry. The Cochlea
product line is presently being sold by General Inspection (Clarkston, MI).
Buckley was graduated from Univ. of Pittsburgh (BSME), Purdue University (MSME),
and Univ. of Cal. - Berkeley (Ph.D., ME). Buckley holds 25 U.S. patents,
has 34 publications and has authored a layman's book on solar
energy, Sunup to Sundown.
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Marketing, Finance
Jim Anderson, VP-Marketing and CFO, has broad experience in technology,
finance, sales and general management with substantial international
experience. After 3 years at ARCO in refinery simulation, Anderson
spent eight years with Schlumberger as financial controller in Paris and
London. As management consultant for Booz-Allen, he spent two years
in the Middle East. For seven years, Anderson ran a connector component
group for Raychem (Mountain View, CA), a Class 1 Quality program for the
Navy's Trident II missile. He was also a product line manager in
charge of a Raychem field sales force. He has small-business experience
as well, having spent four years with Silicon Valley startup companies in
management, sales and finance roles. Anderson has a BS degree in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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Development
Prof. Chen Jihong is President of Huazhong Numerical Control System Co., Ltd.
(HCNC). HCNC manufactures more than a third of the NC controllers used by
Chinese industry and is the Chinese market share leader.
Chen is also Director of the NC Systems Engineering Research Center, the
Beijing-designated national center for NC development. He is professor of
Mechanical Engineering at HUST. Chen personally led the
CAItech development group before he was named President of HCNC. Chen heads HCNC's 260
member staff and is responsible for general management.
Dr. Zhou Huicheng leads the 10-man group at the NC Systems Engineering
Research Center in charge of the
CAItech development effort. Dr. Zhou has been working on 3D inspection since
its inception. He and his group have developed software used to calibrate
CAItech's inspection machines, to merge data clouds from
different views of the part and to interact with the user. Zhou's
doctoral thesis was on the design and operation of
CAItech's
Model 50L inspection machine that obtains 3D datapoints by laser triangulation.
Zhou has led the design, fabrication and testing of
CAItech's
entire line of inspection machines.
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