TEAM POSITION: Team Coach & Founder
6 years with FIRST
ABOUT ME: BA in Advertising - FAAP, Brazil & Minor in CS at OSU. Worked in Brazil at: Itau Bank, responsibilities included banking, treasury and overseeing the investments dept.,
Standard Ogilvy MatherAdvertising and AAB OgilvyMather Public Relations. In the US: UPNS (UCLA), translations.com in the fields of project management, translation, QA, product and web testing, and DTP.
Alex Tenca
TEAM POSITION: Head Mentor, Programming & Electrical Group Mentor, Founder
6 years with FIRST
ABOUT ME: Staff R&D Engineer - Synopsys. Adjunct Professor at OSU and invited Professor at USP. Received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from University of Sao Paulo (USP) and MS and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA - Computer Science Department.
Gladys Chin
TEAM POSITION: Management and Fundraising Mentor - Board Member -
3 years with FIRST
ABOUT ME:
26 year employee at Tektronix currently an IT Manager supporting Manufacturing Business Applications, responsibilities include project management and managing a team of Oracle developers. Received a BA from Portland State University (pdx.edu) in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1977.
Alex Knots
TEAM POSITION: Electrical Group Mentor -
4 years with FIRST
ABOUT ME: DNS Field Service Engineer I've been a FSE for over 13 years installing, calibrating, troubleshooting, repairing and upgrading semiconductor manufacturing equipment. I've qualified production machinery for major semiconductor manufacturers all over the US. My technical responsibilities include: High/Low power distribution and control, ultra pure fluid systems control, automation control, pneumatic systems and micro-contaminate free environments. I hope to share my experience by bringing practicality, fun and experience to building and repairing robots.
Dwarakanath Mysore
TEAM POSITION: Programming Mentor
1 year with FIRST
ABOUT ME: Engineer at Intel
Patrick Kraft
TEAM POSITION: Machine Shop Mentor
2 year with FIRST
ABOUT ME:
Faculty Chair, Machine Manufacturing Technology,
Director PCC/APICS Education
Jean Tenca
TEAM POSITION: Mechanical Mentor
ABOUT ME: Westview Robotics Team 1510 - Founder, Team Manager & Team Captain 2004-05. Mechanical Group Robotics Club founder and President
Crescent Valley, Robotics Team 955 - Captain and Mechanical Group Leader. Robotics Club Founder and President. Sophomore at University of Washington
Major: Electrical Engineer. Recipient of the 2005 Westview Robotics & Tech Dept Merit Award and the 2006 University of Washington EOP Merit Award. 6 years with FIRST
Bob Hendel
TEAM POSITION: Management Mentor & 2004/05 Team Sponsor
3 years with FIRST
ABOUT ME: Bob is the Oregon Corporate Services Technical Services Programs Manager at Intel's Ronler Acres Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon.
His responsibilities include Zero Impact Programs, Business Recovery Planning, Fire Protection Systems and Document & Data Management Systems. Bob is an Intel Mentor and teaches the Mentoring at Intel course for managers and individual contributors desiring to practice mentoring others. He has worked in the electronics/semiconductor industry for over 40 years at many technical and managerial positions in research & development, product development, marketing, sales, manufacturing, equipment maintenance, construction & project management, and support services. The list of companies where he worked includes Star Markets, Canteen, Eastman Kodak, Sear, Brown Consultant Engineers, IBM, Qualitron, RCA, GE and currently Intel. He earned a BS degree Magna Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ) and MBA in Management from Pace University (NY) and is a Faculty Member for the University of Phoenix teaching Business and Management courses since 1999.
Bob Goetz
TEAM POSITION: Programming Mentor
ABOUT M
Mark Garcia
TEAM POSITION: Assistant Coach, Mechanical & Electrical Group Mentor
2 year with FIRST
ABOUT ME: Retired from US Navy in 1997, in the navy he was Electronics Technician on board Submarines and a Navy instructor teaching advanced electronics and pneumatic & hydraulic control systems and Weapon Systems Team Trainer. After retiring from the Navy I started working for Intel in 1997, at Intel I have worked at Fab15 and D1C as a FAB technician Maintaining and repairing FAB Tools. He is also on the Intel Emergency Response Team (ERT), Trained to respond to Medical and environmental Emergency.
Areas of Expertise: Electronics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics and associated control systems.
Patrick Stolt
TEAM POSITION: Electrical Group Mentor
ABOUT ME: Intel Corp. Employee. Electrical engineer working as a Systems Architect in New Business Initiatives.
Steven Garcia
TEAM POSITION: Programming Mentor
ABOUT ME: Westview Robotics Team - Programming Group Leader 2005-06.
Century High School graduated. Recipient of the Century Tech Dept Merit Award. Freshman at the Portland Community College, Major: Computer Science
2 years with FIRST
Matthew J Scott
TEAM POSITION: Welding Mentor
ABOUT ME: Faculty, Welding Portland Community College
Katie Garcia
TEAM POSITION: Photography Mentor - Board Member
ABOUT ME: Owner of the Babies and Brides
Weimin Han
TEAM POSITION: Electrical Mentor
ABOUT ME: Intel Engineer
Mark Kochanowski
TEAM POSITION: Pneumatics Mentor
ABOUT ME: Sales Engineer. Buchanan Automation - Seattle based automation components distributor ( pneumatics and electrical ), one of the largest automation distributors in the NW.
- been in pneumatics industry about 9 years
- prior - 8 years in semiconductor equipment / components sales
- BSME from Univ. of Pittsburgh
Martha Sears
TEAM POSITION: Management Mentor - Board Member
ABOUT ME: IT Director at Symantec in the Business Office of the CIO in charge of Strategy, Process, and Operations. With 22 years of experience in the field of information management the experience includes Practice Management, Program Management, Program Oversight, Recovery of "Runaway Projects", and Strategy Development. Some representative achievements are: Developed methodologies that are currently in use by such firms as Gartner, KPMG, and CTP. These methodologies include: Systems Development, IT operations, Program Oversight, Project Management, Training Strategies, CRM Strategies, and IT Strategies.
Thank you to everyone who has helped make Team 1510 a success!
TEAM POSITION: Team Coach & Founder
TEAM POSITION: Head Mentor, Programming & Electrical Group Mentor, Founder
TEAM POSITION: Management and Fundraising Mentor - Board Member -
3 years with FIRST 
TEAM POSITION: Electrical Group Mentor -
4 years with FIRST 
TEAM POSITION: Machine Shop Mentor
TEAM POSITION: Management Mentor & 2004/05 Team Sponsor 
TEAM POSITION: Assistant Coach, Mechanical & Electrical Group Mentor
TEAM POSITION: Welding Mentor
TEAM POSITION: Photography Mentor - Board Member 
TEAM POSITION: Management Mentor - Board Member