Randolph (Rande) Treece, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Boston, MA, US

Denver, CO, US

Protecting intellectual property for domestic and foreign companies, universities, national laboratories and individuals with a National, Full-Service Law Firm.Areas of expertise include:> Provide intellectual capital management to individuals and organizations> Discuss inventions and designs with inventors > Evaluate prior art> Prepare provisional and.

Kansas City, MO, US

Protecting intellectual property for domestic and foreign companies, universities, national laboratories and individuals with a National, Full-Service Law Firm having 10 offices nationwide. Developing #patent and intellectual property strategy to optimize return on #IntellectualCapital.

Denver, CO, US

Preparing and prosecuting patent applications for domestic and foreign companies and individuals at a boutique intellectual property law firm focused entirely on the worldwide protection of intellectual property rights. Developing patent and intellectual property strategy to optimize return on Intellectual Capital.

A full range of professional services are offered, including:* Identification of #SBIR / #STTR funding opportunities,* Preparation of federal research proposals for the SBIR / STTR programs* Review funding #proposals for Federal, State, and Local agencies* Determination of the "Beachhead Market" * Program Management and Project #Engineering* Optimization.

Boulder, CO, US

• Astralux Solar, LLC is a #solar #photovoltaic integrator that markets, sells, designs, installs, and maintains solar #PV systems for homes and businesses throughout Colorado. Dr. Treece was Chief Operations Officer and.
• Implemented design process improvements that reduced time spent designing each system and decreased the number of redesigns
• Increased installation rate by more than 10% by improving installation efficiency
• Worked with the Colorado State Senate to restart the Xcel Solar Rebates
• Reduced materials expenses by continually rebidding the most commonly used parts

• AES was a solar photovoltaic integrator that marketed, sold, designed, installed, and maintained solar PV systems for homes and businesses throughout Colorado. The company was sold to a private equity group that became.
• Developed marketing plan that led to total marketing costs 50% below industry average
• Hired and trained four-person sales team that sold more than a 200 systems within two years, amounting to 10% market share in Colorado among over 300 solar companies
• Grew revenues more than 2000% in 36 months (from $170k in 2007 to $4.3 MM in 2009)
• Sold the company to a private equity group in May 2010
• Invited to give 3 presentations on peak oil and energy, and to participate in a renewable energy panel

• Astralux, Inc., based in Boulder, CO, has been performing research and development of advanced semiconductors since 1991. The company has been issued more than 10 patents. Dr. Treece had the primary leadership role.
• Increased proposal win rate by 300% by narrowing and focusing research programs
• Built programs to develop waste heat conversion technology, hybrid Si/SiC wafers, and a bio-decontamination system
• Awarded 8 programs worth $1.5M
• Published 1 paper, authored 1 invited and 1 contributed presentation
• Served on the organizing committee for a national workshop

• Dr. Treece was hired to grow and expand the business of Astralux. In particular, he was involved in the development of wide bandgap semiconductors for optoelectronic applications, particularly SiC hybrid wafers and.
• Negotiated a spin-out of transistor technology into a new company, which received $3M in Series A financing and was eventually sold for $5.4M
• Built programs to develop Si-based LEDs, improved epitaxy and doping of GaN films, combinatorial methods for materials improvement
• Awarded 6 programs worth $1.84M
• Published 3 papers, authored 3 invited and 4 contributed presentations
• Organized a national workshop

Littleton, CO, US

• ITN Energy Systems is a company focused on research and product development in the areas of aerospace, energy, biomedical and environmental technologies and technology commercialization As Group Leader for Advanced.
• Developed commercial-scale, roll-to-roll process using sputtering of Indium/Tin oxide onto plastic film
• Partnered with founder of digital projection company to raise seed capital
• Discovered new transparent conducting oxide (TCO) alloys using combinatorial chemistry methods
• Published 2 papers, authored 2 invited and 2 contributed presentations

• Materials Research Group, Inc was a company with three divisions that (1) performed government-sponsored R&D, (2) built commercial semiconductor deposition tools, and (3) manufactured photovoltaic cell and module.
• Negotiated partnership with Samsung Electronics to develop a roll-to-roll deposition process
• Negotiated project and led design and fabrication teams for commercial-scale, multi-chamber cadmium telluride sublimation system (square meter substrates) for Matsushita Electric
• Optimized large-area deposition of Indium Tin Oxides (ITO) on polymer substrates using combinatorial chemistry methods
• Developed in-situ monitoring tool to control CdS deposition for PV cells over large areas
• Developed approach to deposit conducting, anti-reflective coatings on roll-to-roll polymeric substrates

• SCT was a startup focused on utilizing superconducting thin film RF filters in the wireless telecom industry to increase the footprint of a given base station while increasing call volume.As Manager, Government.
• Negotiated agreements with Raytheon E-Systems, Comsat Laboratories, and the University of Colorado and managed the engineers under a US Air Force program to develop electronic warfare equipment
• Sold and managed DoD program worth $3.2M
• Edited 1 proceedings volume, published 7 papers, authored 7 invited and 19 contributed presentations
• Chaired an organizing committee of a national Symposium
• Chaired 6 different sessions in 3 different national conferences

Boulder, Colorado, US

The SCT supported research of several professors and their students was managed. New ferroelectric (FE) thin film materials were deposited by pulsed laser deposition and their structural and electrical properties were determined. The mechanism for loss generation in FE thin films was investigated with an interest to reduce the losses at high frequencies.

Washington, DC, US

• As an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, DR. Treece was involved in using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) as a synthesis tool to grow new and meta-stable superconductors and super-hard thin films.Dr. Treece:
• Established collaborations with multiple university groups that resulted in 18 publications and 23 presentations
• Synthesized and fully characterized a new phase of metastable, superconducting NbN with the highest known transition temperature (Tc) for NbN
• Proved that the higher transition temperature (Tc) metastable film had a previously-unknown structure for NbN
• Synthesized and characterized metastable CNx films
• Published 18 papers, authored 4 invited and 19 contributed presentationsThe nitride films were grown by ablating graphite or metal targets in high background pressures of nitrogen gas. The tribological properties of.

Post-Doctoral Research, Materials Chemistry

Ph.D., Chemistry

Bs Chemistry (Physics Minor), Chemistry