Biography
Louis Prado, born Luis Alberto Prado and commonly known as Lou Prado, was born and raised in Queens Borough, New York City. He is a first generation citizen of the United States with ancestors from Nicaragua, Denmark, and Germany.
Education and Work History
Louis A. Prado received a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University where he served as the IEEE Student Chairman. He has since designed mixed-signal microcontrollers for Microchip Technologies and has worked world-wide with CAD departments to improve integrated-circuit design at over 20 major semiconductor manufactures including Philips, Motorola, Hitachi, Samsung, TSMC, and Toshiba.
In regards to Information Technology, Lou Prado has worked on all layers of the OSI Model, from optimizing the design of Realtek’s/Cisco’s Ethernet PHYceivers (Layer 1) to coding server-side/client-side MIS Applications (Layer 7). He has also studied antenna theory and was responsible for Electromagnetic Interference/Compliance of a NASA-sponsored low earth orbit satellite.
Louis Prado has received numerous academic and innovation awards, holds 2
U.S. patents, authored technical papers, and presented at conferences world-wide.
From 1999 to 2004, he was a employee-shareholder of Neolinear. Neolinear was a Carnegie Mellon University start-up that use genetic-based proprietary algorithms to automate design of challenging integrated circuits. In 2004 Neolinear was purchased by Cadence Design Systems. He then sold a commercial lithography business in 2009 which he owned and operated for several years.
Lou currently enjoys a role as a software engineer that allows him to evaluate, design, and apply the latest computer science and network-security technologies at numerous government agencies, corporations, and high-tech start-ups.
Interests
classical guitar, music theory, teaching, lithography, Wikipedia contributing author, and all subjects relating to science, engineering and technology.
