Professional Conversations Seminar Series - Juan Rodriguez
Juan Rodriguez's career spans six decades of experience, mostly in data storage technologies and, most recently, in LIDAR. Mr. Rodriguez started with IBM, and went on to found Storage Technology Corporation, serving as VP of Engineering, VP and General Manager of Disk Operations, and as VP and General Manager of Optical Disk Operations. In 1985 founded Exabyte Corporation, where he held the positions of Chairman, President and CEO. In 1996 he co-founded Ecrix Corporation where he held the positions of Chairman and CEO. Since 1992, Mr. Rodriguez is a professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he cofounded and became the co-executive director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder.
Most recentlyÌýhe has been a consultant and VP of Strategy at Insight Photonics, in the business of applying solid state swept laser technologies to industry measurement, medical diagnostic and LIDAR systems. Additionally, he has served on the boards of directors of multiple public and private companies.
Mr. Rodriguez' awards and accomplishments are numerous. Among the many, he has been honored with the Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, the General Palmer Award for the Outstanding Engineer in Industry, Hispanic Engineer Entrepreneur of the Year, the Boulder County Chamber of Commerce Esprit Entrepreneur of the Decade and Lifetime Achievement Awards, and the Townsend Harris Medal from The City College of New York. ÌýIn 2012 he was awarded Doctor of Science by the University of Colorado.
Mr. Rodriguez received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from The City College of New York and a Master of Electrical Engineering from New York University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Ìý
ThisÌýseminar was aired on September 25, 2020.
To learn more about the Professional Conversations Seminar series, visitÌý/ecee/professionalconversations.