Biography

Roland Martin, born 1946 is managing the APG reuse program. He holds a Ing.(grad) degree in electrical engineering from Fachhochschule fuer Technik, Esslingen, Germany. He joined HP's Boeblingen division in 1969 and relocated to the newly created Waldbronn Analytical Division in 1975. His past assignments included production engineer, starting up a PC board test facility, design of hardware, firmware and software for liquid chromatography, project- and section manager. He is single, lives 5 minutes from work in a small village at the edge of the black forest. Between his frequent trips to the US, he tries to keep his skills as a glider pilot up to date.

Gary Jackoway, is an R+D software engineer. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Duke University, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University. Before joining Avondale Division, Gary worked on automatic routing and placing algorithms for printed circuit board design. Gary is an avid volleyball player, and a contract bridge Life Master.

Charu Ranganathan has been a software engineer at Scientific Instuments Division of Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto) for the past 2 1/2 years. She is currently working on the Command Processor and will continue to be part of the reuse program at HP. She holds a BS in Computer Science from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India and an MS in Computer Science from University of South Western Louisiana, Lafayette, LA. She is an Indian classical musician (vocalist) and is interested in painting/sketching.