Under Antonio's tenure, Cypress's SRAM market position has improved from #8 to #2 in the world. Mr. Alvarez earned a Bachelor's (1978) and Master's (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 1979 - 1987, Mr. Alvarez worked on Analog and VLSI BiCMOS at Motorola's Semiconductor Sector. His team was one of the early leaders in this field. In 1987, Mr. Alvarez joined Cypress as BiCMOS Program Manager and was promoted to Sr. Vice-President of Research and Development at Cypress, responsible for all technology platform development, in 1991. He has published over 25 papers in the Integrated Circuit process and technology sector and edited the book BiCMOS Technology & Applications. As a member of IEEE, Mr. Alvarez has served as the Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Technology (2000).