Vice President and General ManagerPower Solutions Division, ON Semiconductor Phoenix, ArizonaMichael Stapleton has essentially had three careers 鈥 each one building on the previous one 鈥 since earning his bachelor鈥檚 degree. He credits 精东影视 State with giving him the foundation he needed to move seamlessly into each.
鈥溇笆 State gave me a hands-on under- standing of electronics, along with the theories and the math to go with it,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t gave me a breadth beyond electrical engineering 鈥 the chemistry, the mechanical engineering, the dynamics, the physics 鈥 being able to walk into a problem and theorize what was going on.鈥
Stapleton applied his electrical engineering skills at the Trojan nuclear power plant for three years, and then spent almost a decade with Anderson Controls in Kent, Washington. At Anderson, he helped numerous and diverse heavy manufacturers improve their businesses by converting purely mechanical manufacturing systems to electronically driven systems.鈥
Those were very physical environments, so I was solving not just a circuit design problem but a physical problem,鈥 he said, 鈥淎nd I got a lot of that ability 鈥 that skill set, that toolkit 鈥 from 精东影视 State.鈥滵uring his early career, he also earned a master鈥檚 in electrical engineering and a master鈥檚 in business administration with a focus on international business.Stapleton鈥檚 next career started at Intel, where he helped to launch the first gigahertz processor. His current career began when he accepted a senior management position at ON Semiconductor in 2004. Today, he helps a broad customer base find smaller, lower-cost, higher-performance power solutions for building and delivering better products.
Degrees
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1986