Practical Aspects of Hosting Interns from the CIS Countries

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Practical Aspects of Hosting Interns from the
CIS Countries

• Milena Thompson
• milena_at_ridgetop-group.com

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About the company
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Ridgetop Group, Inc.

• Founded in 2000 in Tucson, AZ
• Focus is Semiconductor Design Tools and IP.
• Experts in Analog, RF and Mixed-Signal
  Electronics Design.

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Ridgetops Products
Sentinel Silicon Prognostic BIST Library
Products
InstaBIST BIST Library
Rad Hard Design Services
InstaCell Conversion Products
Rincon Harmonic Balance VHDL-AMS Simulator
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Customers

• DARPA
• NAVY
• NASA
• Missile Defense Agency
• Department of Energy
• Europractice

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About the SABIT Program
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Goal

• To place mid- to senior-level trainees in
  environments which will provide them with
  practical knowledge for transforming their
  countries enterprises and economies to the free
  market.

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Benefits to the company

• Innovativeness of the interns
• Excellent educational background
• Ability to work well with our staff
• Help improve our proficiency in Russian

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Benefits to the interns

• Participation in a small technology company
• Exposure to technology commercialization methods
• Exposure to Western-style management
• Help improve their proficiency in English

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Challenges

• Finding good candidates takes a long time.
• Employers dont want to let their good employees
  leave for 6 months
• English language skills
• Restriction on interns who work for a government
  affiliated institution in Belarus.

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Ways to find candidates

• SABIT recruiters
• Postings at Universities
• Online databases
• Advertising in local publications
• Recommendations by former and current SABIT
  interns

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About our interns
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2002 Interns

• Andrey Busko, Engineer, Sibirskii Gosudarstvennii
  nauchno-isslyedovatelskii institut metrologii,
  Novosibirsk
• Alexander Budishevsky, Customer Support, Golden
  Telecom, Kiev, Ukraine

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2003 Interns

• Evgeny Chernyavskiy, Lead Engineer, Institute of
  Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk
• Igor Grishchuk, Programmer, Institute of
  Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences,
  Novosibirsk

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2004 2005 Interns

• Alexander Myasnikov, PhD., Head of TCAD Group in
  Division of Crystals and Silicon Structures in
  Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk
• Sergey Garmashov, Associate Professor and Deputy
  Dean of Rostov State University, Physics
  Department
• Still looking for 2 more interns

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Business Activities

• Meetings with customers
• U of A Dept. of Russian and Slavic Studies
• U of A Dept. of Electrical Engineering
• Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster
• Tucson Technology Oasis

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Social Activities

• Birthday parties
• Company parties
• X-mas party
• Baseball games
• Star Pass
• Desert Museum
• Sabino Canyon
• Hidden Valley Inn
• Grand Canyon

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Evgenys birthday party
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Links with former interns

• Evgeny Chernyavskiys paper Modeling,
  Fabrication and Test Results of a MOS Controlled
  Thyristor MCT - with high controllable current
  density was presented at the 27th International
  conference on the physics of Semiconductors, July
  26-30, 2004, Flagstaff, Arizona by our CTO - Bert
  Vermeire.

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Evgeny received a Ph. D. in Semiconductor Physics
and Solid State Electronics upon his return to
Novosibirsk
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Summary

• Strongly encourage cross-linkages with CIS
  countries
• The SABIT programs is an excellent way of
  bringing interns to the USA and working with
  them.
• If we can do it in our business, so can you!