Mike Peters, Ambassador for University of California – Santa Barbara, joined TriQuint in 1987 and has worked in the Reliability, Process Engineering and Commercial Foundry groups. Currently he is the Director of Marketing for Commercial Foundry and Program Management. His team is responsible for bringing new Foundry technologies to the market, engaging with new customers and identifying new markets for technologies and managing the subsequent product development activities to meet customer delivery requirements. Mike received his BSEE from Clarkson University, MSEE from UC Santa Barbara and MBA from Marylhurst College.

Bill McCalpin, Ambassador for University of Colorado – Boulder, is the General Manager of the TriQuint Colorado Design Center. Bill’s team is responsible for the product design and technology development of cutting-edge high power RF transistors incorporating high power GaAs HBT, GaN, GaAs p-HEMT, silicon LDMOS and silicon bipolar technology. TriQuint Colorado is also heavily involved in industry-leading wideband high power product and technology development. Products from TriQuint serve a diverse range of markets including wireless telecom, radar, communications, commercial broadcast, defense, etc. Bill received his BSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his MSEE from Santa Clara University and holds four US Patents in high power RF devices and circuits.

Eid Alsabbagh, Ambassador for University of South Florida, joined TriQuint Semiconductor in 2004 to work on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter design for IF and RF applications in the cellular base station, automotive, and satellite radio markets. Eid currently works in the Florida design center on actives and integrated module products for the networks and GPS markets. Eid graduated Cum Laude from the University of South Florida while completing his BSEE and MSEE. Eid is currently working towards his Ph.D. in EE at University of South Florida.

Charles F. Campbell, Ambassador for University of Colorado – Boulder, joined TriQuint in 1998 and has held various positions including Design Team Leader Design Engineering Director and most recently, Design Engineering Fellow.  Prior to TriQuint, Charles worked on microwave module design and MMIC development for Texas Instruments.  His interests are compact, high power MMIC design techniques and device modeling. He received BSEE, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University. 

Paul Litzenberg, Ambassador for University of California – Santa Barbara, has worked for TriQuint Semiconductor since 1988 in various capacities including his current position of Foundry Engineering Director, Commercial Foundry. Paul’s team is responsible for characterization and modeling of process technology components; generation and maintenance of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Process Development Kits (PDKs); and various technical support activities for Triquint's designers and Foundry customer designers. Paul received his BSEE from the University of Illinois and his MSEE from Arizona State University.

Ray Pavio, Ambassador for University of Massachusetts, has more than 20 years of experience in the RF and Microwave field.  During this time, he designed hybrid and MMICs circuits including power amplifiers, mixers, low noise amplifiers, phase shifters, attenuators and oscillators.  His current role is managing a design team responsible for developing state-of-the-art transmit modules for CDMA and WCDMA cell phones. Ray received his BSEE degree from the University of Connecticut and his MSEE degree from the University of Massachusetts. 

Alex Zajac, Ambassador for University of South Florida, is the Director of Engineering for TriQuint’s Networks Business Unit in Apopka, Florida. Alex leads an Acoustic design team, an Integration design team and an Engineering Technical Support team. The Acoustic design team specializes in Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) and Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filters and duplexers. The Integration design team focuses on both active and passive modules using various TriQuint processes such as GaAs p-HEMT for amplifiers and switches, SAW and BAW for filters. Alex’s teams support a number of RF markets, such as Base Station, GPS, WiMAX, and other wireless voice and data communication systems. Alex received his B.S. in Physics from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and his MSEE from the University of Central Florida.