Steve Parmelee has worked in high-tech manufacturing companies for over 10 years, and has held central engineering positions in large companies such as Komag Material Technologies (Santa Rosa, CA), TriVascular (Santa Rosa, CA) which was acquired by Boston Scientific, and Memry Corporation (Menlo Park, CA). Parmelee has focused his career on taking prototype concepts to successful high-volume manufacturing (Komag Material Technologies produced 120,000 hard disk drive substrates a day), while developing business expertise in departments such as R&D, process development, manufacturing, metrology and quality. Parmelee holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.