Dr. Barksdale, owner of the Solar Collector Core Technology (patent pending), the Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuit (patent pending), Thermoelectrically Cooled 65GHz LNA (patent pending), and the Business-card-size CD (patent issued), has over 40 years experience in electronic and semiconductor technology development.  He has held numerous executive level positions in high technology research and development companies.  Currently Chairman of the Green Government Commission of Lake City/Hinsdale County, Colorado, he is also the primary strategist and researcher for the Sun West Solar division of Hytec Digital Design, Inc. since 2004. He is continuing to focus on the farm-scale rollout of his proprietary solution to cost-effective collection of solar energy. In 2002-03 Dr. Barksdale as Chief Technology Officer headed up the Technology Divisions of two start-up high tech companies – All Optical Networks and Interphotonics, Inc. – both in the optical telecommunications field. From 1975 to the present he has been the President and CEO of Hytec Engineering & Design, a firm specializing in telecommunications data transmission, technical publications and printing, and customer computer application development.   Prior to 1991, Dr. Barksdale held positions within the academic community, including National University’s Computer Science and Engineering department, where he variously held the positions of Dean, Department Chair and Professor, and at Rice University where he was a research fellow working with X-Band microwave studies of II-VI and III-V semiconductors at cryogenic temperatures. From 1973 to1977, he served as Director of Operations for Texas Instruments’ Calculator and computer products, PCB assembly, CMOS, and silicon material divisions. At TI, Dr. Barksdale received significant recognition for his groundbreaking work in advanced silicon growth technology pioneered for the 4K RAM chip which launched the present day personal computer industry. A veteran of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, he was a member of the Intelligence Corps (Russian language translator, cryptographic and electronics). Dr. Barksdale is a National Science Foundation fellow, Welch Foundation fellow, and Atomic Energy Commission special fellow. Dr. Barksdale holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Solid State Physics from Rice University, a B.S. Physics/Math/Chemistry from the University of Texas, and A.A. Biology/Math from Weatherford College.  He also has conducted Postdoctoral research at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Institute in Houston.