Seth Shumate

* Acted as an executive officer in the company as well as having served on the board of directors.
* Wrote technology-driven grants to the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of
Energy.
* Worked intimately with patent firm to cultivate our company’s IP portfolio.
* Led team of four engineers through building our own lab/internal capabilities and coordinated technical
collaborations with world-leading research institutes, industry leading equipment manufacturers, and
industry leading solar cell/module manufacturers to develop industrially relevant process flows for our
technology.
* Designed and built vacuum equipment capable of processing large-area industrial solar cells.

Wrote technology driven grants to the National Science Foundation.
* Managed R&D activities of two full-time employees (Ph.D. candidate and M.S. in Electrical
Engineering) and one graduate intern (M.S. Microelectronics-Photonics).
* Managed R&D collaborations with Arkansas Advanced Photovoltaics Research Center, High Density
Electronics Center, and the University of Arkansas.
* Developed solar cell designs, processes, fabrication, and characterization methods of photovoltaic
devices based on aluminum-induced crystallization, wafer-based, thin-film, and traditional solar cell
architectures.
* Built hot-wire vacuum equipment for hydrogen defect passivation and acceptor impurity passivation.

leading a technical team of engineers through many phases of
R&D.
* High success rate with winning very competitive grants based on innovations and inventions.
* Very successful at business plan competitions, highlighting an ability to communicate complex
information in a concise manner.