Gary E Pittman
Consultant in Statistical Thinking
972.783.1101
Education:
B. S.
Chemistry, with honors, SMU, 1954
Minor in
English
Minor in
Math
Graduate
Courses in Electronics
Honors:
Phi Beta
Kappa
Kappa Mu Epsilon
Experience:
Educational
Lecturer,
Conducted classes and seminars on
SPC throughout
Lectured at University College
London on history of statistics.
Industrial
Engineer
at
Developed processes to produce the earliest versions of :
High Voltage Rectifiers
Gallium
Arsenide Solar Cells
Silicon Controlled Rectifiers
Varactor Diodes
Tunnel Diodes
Light Emitting Diodes*
*Co-inventor of the Light Emitting Diode. (LED)
This invention led to the formation of a multi-billion
dollar optical communication industry, a major supplier to the Internet.
Engineering Manager at
Vice President, Manufacturing, Spectronics,
Inc. 1970-1977
Director, Military Business, Honeywell Optoelectronics,
1978-1987
Managed development of sophisticated Night Vision Displays for the U.
S. Army.
Director of Quality, Honeywell, 1987-1990
President, SPC Inc. 1990-1994
(SPC, Inc. specialized in Process Improvement using
statistical methods.)
Patents
Semiconductor
Radiant Diode (LED) No.
3,293,513
Photosensitive
Transistors
No. 3,304,431
Electro-Optical
Transistor No.
3,413,480
Papers
Quantum
Efficiency of a new LED,
Proc. Of
IEEE,
February
1964
One
Watt Infrared Source, Applied Physics Letters, Nov.,1963
The
Galton Institute in