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Education & Workforce Panelists' Biographies
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Fritz Prinz
Director, Fuel Cells Consortium;
Chair of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University
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Fritz Prinz is the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford
University, as well as the Director of the Rapid Prototyping
Laboratory and the Director of the Fuel Cells Consortium. His
current work focuses on the design and fabrication of micro- and
nanoscale devices for energy and biology. Examples include fuel
cells and bioreactors. He is interested in mass transport
phenomena across thin membranes such as oxide films and lipid
bi-layers. His research group studies electro-chemical phenomena
with the help of Atomic Force Microscopy, Impedance
Spectroscopy, and Quantum Modeling.
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Roland Winston
Professor of Natural Sciences & Engineering Chair
University of California, Merced |
Prof. Winston came to
UC Merced in 2003 after an academic career at The University of
Chicago where he chaired the physics department for six years.
Since coming to UC Merced, he was Chancellor's Professor with
named scholarship (2006), chaired the UCMerced division of the
academic senate (2005-6), received the first ASME energy award
(2006), wrote Nonimaging Optics, Academic Press (Elsevier) 2005,
wrote many papers, several licensed patents and started a solar
energy group with California Energy Commission support. Prof.
Winston continues his collaboration with NA48, a high energy
physics experiment at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Jennifer Oliver
Director, Center of Excellence
West Valley College
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Jennifer Oliver is the
Director of the Greater Silicon Valley Center of Excellence
hosted at West Valley College. The Center is one of nine
regional Centers of Excellence funded by the Chancellor’s Office
of the California Community Colleges. Ms. Oliver, in partnership
with business and industry, delivers regional workforce research
and information customized for the eleven community colleges in
the Greater Silicon Valley for their decision-making and
resource development.
Prior to this position, Jennifer led the corporate training unit
at West Valley College, where she developed training solutions
for Silicon Valley employers. Jennifer also has an extensive
background in delivering programs for jobseekers to prepare them
to enter the workforce.
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John Carrese
Director, Center of Excellence
City College of San Francisco
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John Carrese is the Director of the San Francisco Bay Region
Center of Excellence hosted at City College of San Francisco.
The Center is one of nine regional Centers of Excellence funded
by the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges.
Mr. Carrese implements the Center's environmental scanning,
partnership development and regional marketing activities on
behalf of the fifteen colleges in the Northern Bay Area.
Mr. Carrese has extensive experience conducting DACUMs
(Developing a Curriculum) with industry and college partners. He
is also skilled in conducting research, designing
performance-based training programs, and facilitating teams. He
has over twenty years of experience in the workforce and
economic development field and has worked at City College of San
Francisco for the past ten years.
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Preston Roper
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Tioga Energy |
Preston Roper is responsible for development,
operations and marketing at Tioga Energy. He brings over two
decades of experience leading innovative marketing and
operations teams at high-growth technology companies, including
Honeywell, NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998)
and Synopsys (that issued an IPO in 1992). Roper was recently
senior vice president of marketing and sales at Bitpass.
Previously he was VP Marketing at business intelligence provider
JasperSoft, as well as vice president of marketing at Tesaria, a
provider of mobile commerce solutions. Prior to completing his
Masters of Business Administration at Stanford University, he
led business development and fund-raising for the University in
Germany, where he also became fluent in German. Roper holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a
Master of Science degree in hardware-software co-design from
Stanford University.
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