sentences:  Jim Grugan from Fairchild joined shortly after incorporation as Vice President of Administration, responsible for finance, facilities and purchasing.Immediately after financing and incorporation, they offered founder stock and hired IC designers George Erdi from Fairchild and Dan Dooley from TRW Microelectronics.They also hired Jerry Bresee, a chief process engineer from Tektronix, who developed a semiconductor process far superior to what they were able to access from the Fairchild R&D processing services department, with the exception of nitride passivation for low 1/f noise, a technology known by the founders from Fairchild.