Richard Hull:  

I am retired. The following was a professional bio used when I joined the executive team at Zetera Corporation, a start up company in networking and networked storage systems. The bio was used for investment meetings and proposals; introducing the executive team. Rick Hull, has over 30 years experience in the electronics industry, notably in solid-state semiconductors and magnetic storage systems. In addition to numerous individual technical achievements, Mr. Hull has held numerous Management and Engineering positions at Western Digital Corp during the 23 year span prior to joining Zetera. These include, most recently, Director of Engineering for Advanced Electronic Architecture Development, and prior to that: Director of Advanced Read Channel Development, Senior Manager of Servo VLSI Development, Manager of VLSI Product Development, and Principle VLSI Design Engineer in the earliest years. Mr. Hull¿s responsibilities included not only line management, but notably Program Management of large teams, Engineering Supplier Management, and Product Roadmap leadership. As both customer and supplier of VLSI solutions, Mr. Hull has forged successful relationships with the major semiconductor suppliers to the storage industry and manufacturers of storage systems. Mr. Hull has spearheaded many ¿firsts¿ some are noted below. In his technical capacities has amassed over 25 U.S. Patents in storage subsystems and semiconductor circuits. Mr. Hull has been one of the pioneers who enabled the personal computing revolution through ever improving magnetic storage technology; with innovations from Floppy Disk controllers, AT Hard Drive controllers, SCSI controllers, EID...Expand for more