Ian joined American Technology Research in December 2007. Prior to American Technology, Ian worked in FPGA marketing and product definition roles at Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. Before then, he worked at the CDMA mobile phone units of Motorola and Philips in various engineering management and product management roles. Ian started his career at NCR Corporation and Motorola as an ASIC design engineer. Ian was graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and later earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MBA at Columbia Business School.