Bill Pelletier

Current

• Power Engineer at Customer Sites

Past

• FAE at Lineage Power
• FAE at Zilker Labs / Intersil
• CEO at Switch Power

• Marketing at Sipex Corporation
• FAE at Linear Technology Corp
• Director of Power & Analog at Amdahl
• Power Supply Engineer at DEC

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Education

• Stanford University
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Connections

85 connections

Industry

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Bill Pelletier’s Summary

I love ENERGY. I am an energetic person. I do what I love, so I love what I do. Efficiency is my passion, in life and power conversion. I have architected power systems for data centers, cell phones and everything in between. My experience includes power IC's, power modules, power systems, large scale electrical engineering and alternative power. My roles have varied over the years including design engineer, technical lead, project manager, design group manager, marketing, field applications and I also founded and ran a power company.

Bill Pelletier’s Specialties:

Architecture, technical support, design, debug, field applications, marketing and intellectual property. Large scale power engineering, digital power control, design optimization and power management systems are skills that I particularly enjoy.

Bill Pelletier’s Experience

• Power Engineer

  Customer Sites

  (Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Working with major OEMs, ODMs & Data Centers to improve efficiency and network throughput.

• FAE

  Lineage Power

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years)

  Field Applications Engineer for Western Region

• FAE

  Zilker Labs / Intersil

  (Public Company; ISIL; Semiconductors industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  Acquired by Intersil

• CEO

  Switch Power

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; NA; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1995 — 2004 (9 years)

• Marketing

  Sipex Corporation

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SIPX; Semiconductors industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• FAE

  Linear Technology Corp

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; LLTC; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years)

• Director of Power & Analog

  Amdahl

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1990 — 1993 (3 years)

  System architect and bring up.

• Power Supply Engineer

  DEC

  (Public Company; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1985 — 1990 (5 years)

Bill Pelletier’s Education

• Stanford University

  Power & analog IC design 1990 — 1993

  Stanford has a BEAUTIFUL campus with lots of smart and fun students, e.g. guitar, hackey-sack, chess, etc. The true Silicon Valley essence can be experience daily on campus.

  Activities and Societies:

  I took analog IC and power courses offered at Stanford, but never got a degree.

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Power & analog engineering 1983 — 1987

Additional Information

Bill Pelletier’s Interests:

Coaching soccer, coaching basketball, kids, birds, chess, guitar, trumpet, going to live music shows, playing basketball, bike riding, roller blading, hiking, camping, and playing any game ... especially making up our own fun games to play.

Bill Pelletier’s Groups:

I tend to avoid fraternities and organizations in general.

•    DEC Alumni
•    Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni (WPI)

Bill Pelletier’s Honors:

From time-to-time :-)

Bill Pelletier’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch