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Edgar M. Williams is a member of QSecure's technology advisory board and is an active consultant with the company. He has 41 years of experience in magnetic recording and in xerographic technologies, of which 19 years were with IBM Corporation in San Jose where he developed recording materials, media, heads, and laser printers. In 1983 he co-founded Gemini Magnetics, Inc. and developed thin film recording media, and in 1985 he joined ReadRite (to match ReadRite under Dr. Joyce Thompson) as Director of Technology where he established thin film head design and applications engineering activities for the corporation. He was promoted to Vice President in 1989, appointed to Chief Technical Officer in 1993 and became ReadRite's first Fellow in 1997. He has published the books Design and Analysis of Magnetoresistive Recording Heads and The Physics and Technology of Xerographic Processes, as well as papers, monographs and book chapters, and has taught over the many years in his profession. He holds four U. S. patents in recording heads.
Mr. Williams has degrees in electrical engineering and in physics, is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, was an adjunct faculty member of the I.I.S.T. at Santa Clara University, and is a past Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. | 