Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network

Vice President of VSVN

Thanh currently works at a technology focused public relations firm in San Francisco. In this capacity she has garnered media coverage for top enterprise technology providers. Previous to her position in public relations she sold advertising space at Computerworld, a technology trade publication and web site. Ms. Tu graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 2002. While attending Tufts she founded and managed a shipping and storage company and also interned at a venture development firm.

Anna is a resident of Huntington Beach. She received her BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from UCLA, where she was also awarded the Outstanding Master of Science in Chemical Engineering prize in 2000 for her research on laser diagnostics in plasma gases. Anna is currently working for Microsemi, a high tech semiconductor company, in Garden Grove. She specializes in InP/GaAs HBT and CMOS & BiCMOS process development technologies.

My past experience includes Real Time Software dedicated to Large Telephonic Exchange Development Programs [70’s], Software Engineering Standardisation and Company Organisation Auditing [80’s], System Development Methodology and Development of Quality Management System [90’s], Large C4I System Tendering (Program Management, Quality Management and Risk Management), Systems Complexity and Systems of Systems Engineering.

After a Master in Physics at the Université de Paris [1969], I obtained an Engineer degree in Electronics at the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité [1972] and completed a Computer System Design DESS from the IAE, Paris [1987].

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