Allen Earman

2005-2006 Chair, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, CPMT Society

Allen Earman has more than 25 years experience in the development of electronic and optical systems such as active and passive optical communications components, high-power solid-state laser systems, and projection and wearable display systems. He holds a BSEE from Virginia Tech and an MS Optics from the University of Rochester (NY). Currently, he is the Director of Packaging at Novalux, Inc. where his efforts are focused on the development of component packaging for high-power visible lasers for display applications. He has been a continuous member of IEEE for 30 years, beginning as a Student Member and now is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Since relocating to the Santa Clara Valley in 2000, he has been an active member in the CPMT Chapter where he was Chapter Secretary for two years and for the past two years has been Chapter Chair. During his tenure as Chapter Chair he guided the CPMT Chapter by setting goals and organizing the Chapter financial position - increasing Chapter revenues past the $150k mark in 2005 - and expanding the Chapter's activities by starting a CPMT Student Chapter at San Jose State University, working with the SCV Section K-12 organization, inaugurating a new Packaging Prize at the Region 6 Central Area Micromouse competition, and working with other area organizations on joint programs.

In 2006, Mr. Earman chaired the SCV Section Audit Committee for the first Self-Audit for IEEE Headquarters. Mr. Earman is a member of CPMT, LEOS, EMS, COMSOC, and ITS of IEEE and is a member of SPIE - the Optical Engineering Society, where he has chaired the Society's Audit Committee for the last 4 years - and the Society for Information Display (SID). From 2001-03, he chaired the joint IEEE-CPMT-SCV-SEMI symposium on Photonics Packaging (PhoPak); in 2006-07 he co-chaired the SPIE conference on Photonics Packaging and Integration at Photonics West; and he is Assistant-Chair for the Optoelectronics sessions at the 2007 Electronics Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) for CPMT. He has served on several conference program committees for IEEE, OSA, and SPIE, and on the ANSI X3B11 Technical Sub-Committee for Optical Storage Interchangeability standardization.

He can be reached by email, at aearman@ieee.org.