Bert Haskell is the director of product devlopment at HelioVolt Co. where he is working on the development of CIGS based thin-film photovoltaic modules. He has been working in technology and product development since starting his career in 1984 with Eastman Kodak, where he worked for 5 years as an electronics manufacturing process development engineer while  earning  his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester. Bert then worked for 9 years  at MCC in Austin,  concluding his tenure there as  Vice president of Portable  Electronics Product Research. Since 2000, the has held product development and product marketing rolls at a number of  start-up companies including Stellar Display Corporation, Wireless Age, and Motion Computing. He joined Heliovolt in August of 2007.