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SUMMARY:Made in Loveland | featuring: Richard Toftness
DESCRIPTION:In this session Richard speaks to those people that may be considering becoming an entrepreneur or\n\nhave just started their own business. He explores common myths about being an entrepreneur and\n\nfinally provides advice on how to be successful based on his own experience.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nRichard is a seasoned professional engineering manager with extensive international and industry experience. Richard's background covers a wide variety of technologies that include semiconductor process development\, semiconductor device development\, semiconductor imagers\, lasers\, hardware design and physical electronics.\n\n \n\n \n\nBesides R&D management\, Richard has managed manufacturing\, quality and financial organizations. This breadth of management experience has provided a robust base of experience with the entire product cycle and an all-encompassing view of how successful organizations work.\n\nRichard is a recipient of a 2012 Academy Award (Oscar) for technical development of the Phantom High Speed Camera. In addition\, Richard was recognized as an Outstanding Young Executive by Hewlett Packard and was inducted into his high school's Hall of Fame in 2017.\n\nRichard has successfully managed organizations of greater than 1000 people but enjoys working with small organizations and is passionate about helping new businesses succeed.\n\nRichard holds six patents\, sits on two BoD\, and owns TASTERRA LLC a small consulting and design firm focused on high tech product development for specialized applications.\n\nRichard has been recognized by ERSA for a camera adaptation that has successfully been installed on the International Space Station\, while another camera has been used by NASA in the world's largest parachute test.\n\nIn 2017 Richard was awarded the Individual achievement award for IEEE Region 5. On November 27th\, 2019\, He was awarded the IEEE-USA George F McClure Citation of Honor for continued advocacy and grassroots promotion of student technical and professional activities in the US.\n\nRichard was instrumental along with Roger Ison in heading the Loveland campaign to opt out of Senate Bill 152\, resulting in the development of Loveland Municipal Broadband (PULSE).Richard is currently a member of the Loveland Communications advisory Board. (LCAB).
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>In this session Richard speaks to those people that may be considering becoming an entrepreneur or</p>\n\n<p>have just started their own business. He explores common myths about being an entrepreneur and</p>\n\n<p>finally provides advice on how to be successful based on his own experience.</p>\n\n<p><strong>About the speaker:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Richard is a seasoned professional engineering manager with extensive international and industry experience. Richard&rsquo\;s background covers a wide variety of technologies that include semiconductor process development\, semiconductor device development\, semiconductor imagers\, lasers\, hardware design and physical electronics.</p>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>Besides R&amp\;D management\, Richard has managed manufacturing\, quality and financial organizations. This breadth of management experience has provided a robust base of experience with the entire product cycle and an all-encompassing view of how successful organizations work.</p>\n\n<p>Richard is a recipient of a 2012 Academy Award (Oscar) for technical development of the Phantom High Speed Camera. In addition\, Richard was recognized as an Outstanding Young Executive by Hewlett Packard and was inducted into his high school&#39\;s Hall of Fame in 2017.</p>\n\n<p>Richard has successfully managed organizations of greater than 1000 people but enjoys working with small organizations and is passionate about helping new businesses succeed.</p>\n\n<p>Richard holds six patents\, sits on two BoD\, and owns TASTERRA LLC a small consulting and design firm focused on high tech product development for specialized applications.</p>\n\n<p>Richard has been recognized by ERSA for a camera adaptation that has successfully been installed on the International Space Station\, while another camera has been used by NASA in the world&rsquo\;s largest parachute test.</p>\n\n<p>In 2017 Richard was awarded the Individual achievement award for IEEE Region 5. On November 27th\, 2019\, He was awarded the IEEE-USA George F McClure Citation of Honor for continued advocacy and grassroots promotion of student technical and professional activities in the US.</p>\n\n<p>Richard was instrumental along with Roger Ison in heading the Loveland campaign to opt out of Senate Bill 152\, resulting in the development of Loveland Municipal Broadband (PULSE).Richard is currently a member of the Loveland Communications advisory Board. (LCAB).</p>\n
LOCATION:desk chair workspace 201 East 4th Street Loveland\, CO 80537
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URL:https://business.loveland.org/events/details/made-in-loveland-featuring-richard-toftness-22734
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