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Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Photoelectrochemical processes.

Summary-Defined the technology roadmap and (reporting to CEO) represents technology on Executive Committee-Led team of 32 people in global R&D (USA & France) involving mechanical, thermal, optical, materials science, and electrical engineering and project management-Developed R&D proposals in support of AREVA Solar Inc. business objectives and manages people, budgets, and projects.-Pursued and secured intellectual property consistent with Business Group IP policy and AREVA Solar Inc. governance requirements.-Managed new technologies awareness and brings technical expertise support to the engineering team when needed-Responsible for leading technical due diligence for the investigation of potential solar technologies.-Proposed and formed external collaborations with academic and industrial partners.---Major R&D projects:-Pioneered next generation product architecture with thermal storage and collaboration with Sandia National LaboratoriesAccepted for presentation at SolarPACES Beijing 2014 and SPIE San Diego 2014:"Demonstration of linear fresnel with molten salt as heat transfer and storage medium."(Paper withdrawn due to Areva exiting the solar business).Related press:Quoted in Technology Review:http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-heat-challenges-photovoltaics-as-power-source/http://social.csptoday.com/markets/weekly-intelligence-brief-may-5-12http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/05/solar-areva-commissions-molten-salt-energy-storage-demonstration.htmlhttp://energy.sandia.gov/?p=11799 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSQtsUnSaI-Led co-development of high performance, durable, air-stable solar selective boiler tube coatings massively deployed at commercial projects.

-Led the solar Brayton Cycle receiver program in Google’s renewable energy research group RE

- Reported to CEO and led R&D department in solar Brayton cycle power plant design and heliostat field metrology See publication below on novel flux scanner-ARPA-E finalist for innovative volumetric receiver for Brayton cyclehttp://environment.umn.edu/e3/archive/archive_2010/E3_Gleckman.pdfVisiting Scientist, Caltech Department of Materials Science (concurrent with eSolar) -Collaborated with Prof. Haile team on thermochemical solar fuelshttp://addis.caltech.edu/research/former%20members.htmlhttp://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2010/gleckman.cfm

-Directed R&D team in high concentration photovoltaics (HCPV)http://www.idealab.com/our_companies/show/cleantech/energy_innovationsSee publications below on HCPV and patent application REFLECTIVE POLYHEDRON OPTICAL COLLECTOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAMEhttp://www.concentrating-pv.org/marburg2007/papers/MarburgPaperGleckman.pdf

-Responsible for managing the country’s most prestigious illumination engineering services group (proposal writing, technical management, billable hours, and performing engineering myself). -Designed many products that used LED lighting, e.g. airport runways, medical tissue optics, traffic lights, interior aircraft, and electronic displays

Lead engineer on laser communications for space including design and bench scale prototyping. See patent below.

Managed group of Dutch mechanical, optical, and electrical engineers in the advanced development of LCD and DLP electronic projectors

Architected the world’s first portable electronic projector which earned a PC Magazine award in 1998 (see also patent below)http://www.projectorcentral.com/news_story_20.htm