Kirsten West

Current

Principal Analyst and co-founder at West Technology Research Solutions, LLC

Past

Market Analyst at Gemfire Inc
Market Associate at Deacon Research
Associate Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center

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Education

University of California, Davis
San Jose State University

Recommended

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Industry

Market Research

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Kirsten West’s Summary

West Technology Research Solutions, LLC (WTRS) is an independent market research and consulting company with 8 years in wireless research specializing in Insteon, ZigBee, UWB, Bluetooth, WiMAX, IEEE 802.15.4, Wi-Fi, and other emerging wireless technologies and protocols. WTRS helps companies track the market potential & viability of wireless emerging technologies. WTRS reports are not funded by, or in any other way influenced by, companies which we study. WTRS customers range from start-ups, some still in development, to the largest and most prominent players in technology. All have an interest in market intelligence that aides them in making crucial business decisions.

Kirsten West’s Specialties:

Independent market research and consulting service that delivers the most up-to-date information to assess market opportunities, evaluate investments, monitor competition, form relationships, and make crucial business decisions regarding cutting-edge wireless technologies.

Kirsten West’s Experience

Principal Analyst and co-founder

West Technology Research Solutions, LLC

(Market Research industry)

1998 — Present (11 years)
Market Analyst

Gemfire Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)

Market research to aid in business planning and venture funding activities. Specifically company developed unique technology to enable true color, flexible, flat panel displays.
Market Associate

Deacon Research

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year)

Assisted VP of Business Development by providing supporting market research for the purpose of gaining the venture funding required to spin out newly developed technology to create a flat panel display company.
Associate Researcher

NASA Ames Research Center

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

June 1986 — August 1991 (5 years 3 months)

Developed novel techniques to measure organic precusors to life in planetary atmostpheres using lasers and multiplexed gas chromatography, and also used filtering techniques to analyze data collected on planetary missions from the 1970's.

Kirsten West’s Education

University of California, Davis

PhD , Biophysics , 1991 — 1995

Dissertation Entitled: "Measurements of Motor Protein Forces using the Centrifuge Microscope," 1995.

Publications:
1. Force−velocity relationships in kinesin-driven motility; Kirsten Hall, Douglas G. Cole, Yin Yeh, Jonathan M. Scholey* & Ronald J. Baskin; Nature 364, 457 - 459 (29 July 1993)

2. Novel heterotrimeric kinesin-related protein purified from sea urchin eggs; D. G. Cole, S. W. Chinn, K. P. Wedaman, K. Hall, T. Vuong & J. M. Scholey; Nature 366, 268 - 270 (18 November 1993)
San Jose State University

M.S. , Experimental Physics , 1989 — 1991

Masters Thesis Entitled: "Comparison of data analysis and experimental techniques for analysis of planetary atmospheres," 1991. Published in Journal of Chromatography and J. Chromatographic Science.

Activities and Societies:

Principal Cellist, University Orchestra