Biography Michael E. Thomas

Michael E. Thomas

CEO/Chairman/President
of Colossal Storage Corporation.

Inventor / Patents Holder

*Over 25 years of startups in peripheral storage *Helped pioneer the present day disk/film drive data storage market * Graduate Navy Nuclear Power Program 1974

Michael Thomas was born in Oakland , Ca. in 1949. The founder of Colossal Storage and the sole inventor or all its technologies and concepts. Michael attended California Public education. After graduating from high school Mr. Thomas Went to 3 years of higher education at various universities and city colleges. In 1971 Michael joined the US Navy where is he was to spend the next 4 years getting a million dollar education at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)/ Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Nuclear Power Program, Advanced Electronics Radar Schools.

In 1975 Michael was honorably discharged from military service and started working for start-up CFI, a small but successful magnetic disk pack manufacturer, where he helped to develop the magnetic particle orientation process. After a year at CFI Michael was recruited by Computer Sciences Corp. NASA/AMES to work on the US Space Shuttle Program where he received national recognition for his optical isolator interface for PDP/11 simulator electronics.

Another year passed and Michael was recruited by Varian Associated as a Final Test Engineer developing start-up X-Ray Computerized Tomography Systems using Xenon gas femto amp detectors. After personally assembling and testing three multi-million dollar systems for Varian. Michael went to work for Allied Media Technology where he personally designed, programmed and installed magnetic media VHS and floppy disk production equipment along with a reverse gravure isocyanide Passavant coating line in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He found the Bulgarians to be friendly and very warm towards Americans, something not found in European countries like France. Next Michael went to work for Memorex as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer where he designed Analog, digital, and software duplication test equipment setting new production records. He invented, designed, and build the world's first simultaneous 2 surface read/write head magnetic media test equipment quadrupuling production capacity.

After working three years at Memorex several engineers from Memorex and IBM including Michael founded Evotek. Evotek one of the first hard Drive companies in the world, which was later acquired by HMT Technologies. Mike also developed one of the world's first RAID multitasking disk drive storage systems and one of the world's first portable self contained brief case computer systems.

Within another short period of time Michael craving for startup excitement surfaced again where he completely designed the Xebec Owl 3.5 in. drive, who funded his next magnetics Company, start-up IMC later acquired by IBM. At IMC Mr. Thomas worked with Dr. Dyke, inventor of laser disk, where he perfected electroless and electrolytic plating, sputtered cobalt/carbon for hard disk, and developed theories for using lasers on magnetics including three dimensional recording.

Mr. Thomas was approached by start-up X'LNT Diskettes a small Texas company of 150 people that produced over 250 million floppy disks. Mr. Thomas was offered the job of Chief Engineer in charge of R&D where he was free to pursue his ideas on isocyanide urethane reverse gravure chemical formulation of coating magnetic tapes and disk, robotic and automation designs for manufacturing, injection molding design and operation, and total control of a multi million dollar production facilities important to the State of Texas. Chinese floppy disk manufacturers started flooding the market with cheap product to take market share and caused X'LNT Diskettes to go out of business.

In 1990 he started a small but very successful floppy disk certification and multitasking duplication test equipment company. Michael had to shut the company down after the Chinese government brought a frivolous lawsuit in attempts to gain access to Michael's proprietary software and automation programs. In 1992 Michael founded FramDrive a solid state drive company using the Ramtron Fram chips for its products. He completed a 40 gigabyte prototype design using drams. The fram chips had Japanese production delay problems and Michael did not want to pursue any further funding until Fram chip production commenced. Ten years later fram chips are appearing on the market in large nubers.

Michael has done many other projects like building and designing a production plant in Bulgaria, consulting for Kaiser Aerospace, Commodore Computer Systems, California Computer Systems, and Transpacific Emergency power systems. He has been offered jobs at NASA, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Stanford SLAC.

Michael has 7 patents on ferroelectrics used for a solid state drive and 2 patents on an Integrated Read/Write Head for Ferroelectric Optical Storage Media # 6,028,835 and #6,046,973 assigned by US PTO 2000 which will be used to develop the Ferroelectric Molecular Holograpic/3D Optical Storage Drive Device.

* Who's Who Historical Society, Who's Who in California, Illustrious Biographee in recognition of exceptional achievement, leadership, and service as a renowned citizen of the Golden State

* 26 years engineering, management, and high tech start ups

* Digital, analog, mechanical, chemical, and RFdesign engineering

* Component and Test Equipment Purchasing, OEM and Government Sales and Customer support

* Manufacturing engineer

* Disk drive development and manufacturing

* Magnetic media development and manufacturing

* Prototype fabrication, development, and production implementation

* Software duplication and packaging

* Inventory control, warehousing, shipping, receiving

* Plastic injection molding design and manufacturing

* Assembly programming of many Microprocessor, Computers, PLC’s, and Logic Devices.

* Worked with many different Computer Operating system architectures

* Written programs in C, forth, pascal, fortran, java, visual basic, and Pal equations for computer state machines

* Schematic development design, printed circuit board design, building engineering and production prototypes to final product introduction

* Documentation and specification control, very wide range of test equipment usage.

* Managed as many as 150 personnel in a manufacturing environment as well as numerous personnel in research and development

Measurement and structure of matter, electrostatics, magnetism, voltage, current and resistance, series dc circuits, parallel dc circuits and network analysis. Alternating current, inductance, capacitance, series circuits and resonance, parallel ac circuits and resonance, ac network analysis, measuring devices. Solid state power supplies, two junction transistors, receiver principles, transistor rf amplifiers, transistor oscillators, transistor mixers and converters, transistor if amplifiers, transistor detectors, transistor audio amplifiers, electron tube receivers, receiver control circuits, frequency demodulation circuits. Power supplies and amplifiers, transmitter circuits microwave circuit applications, electromagnetic circuits and devices. Sweep generator circuits, timing circuits, transistor dc relations, transistor ac gain-impedance relations, single stage transistor amplifiers, field effect, amplifiers and feedback, multistage amplifiers, power amplifiers and transformers, dc supplies and regulators, transistor and fet switching circuits, diodes as switches (dtl), logic circuits (ttl), active reactances, filters, tuned amplifiers, transistor oscillators, demodulation, modulation, wave shaping circuits, thyristors, unijuntion transistors, tunnel diodes. Pulsed radar theory: clipping circuits, rc circuits, rlc circuits, pulse formation by networks and switches, line pulsing modulators, driver power amplifier modulations, cathode ray tubes, sweep voltage circuits, sweep current circuits, synchros, servomechanisms, receiver circuits and components, radio frequency transmission lines, waveguides, resonant lines and cavities, high frequency oscillators, klystrons, magnetrons, radio frequency transmission and receiving systems, antennas, propagation of radio transmitted magnetic energy. Bodies at rest, bodies in motion, energy and momentum, rotational mechanics, orbits and satellites, elastic vibrations, waves, sound, temperature and heat, heat and energy, electrostatics, reflection and refraction of light, light, wave nature of light, special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity, molecular nature of matter, electrical nature of matter, energy quantum, the Bohr atom, structure of atoms, wave nature of particles, quantum entanglement, string theory, radioactivity and the nucleus, nuclear transformations, the structure of atomic nuclei, large scale nuclear reactions, positrons, quarks, biophysics, geophysics, and astrophysics.

Phase shift air search radar system, surface search radar systems, tactical air encryption beacon radar, cryptograph repeater radar, superheterodyne receiver/transmitter. Nuclear fission principles, atomic frequency wavelengths, nuclear reactor principles for plant operation, metallurgy, thermodynamics, nuclear chemistry, inorganic and organic chemistry, steam turbines and generators, physics, nuclear physics, advanced electronics theory for analog and digital circuits, calculus, postulates of Albert Einstein, Burkhard Heim and many other scientist.

Atomic Holographic Optical Storage Nanotechnology Drive has been reviewed by the scientific and technology industry in the following publications.

2. Thomas, Michael E., New nanotechnology to solve future digital data storage problems. NanoNews Report July 2004.

3. Thomas, Michael E ., Ferroelectric Molecular Optical Storage Nanotechnology. 211-216, Eight NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, on March 27-30, 2000 .

4. Thomas, Michel E., 3D Ferroelectric Optical Data Storage , Naval Postgraduate School, Space Systems Academic Group, Ferroelectricity Newsletter Vol. 7, No.3, page 7.

5. Thomas, Michael E., 3D Optical Data Storage Nanotechnology, IDEMA - Insights September/October 2000 issue.

6. Thomas, Michael E., Ferroelectric Molecular Holographic Optical Storage Nanotechnology, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics Symposium on Spin-Electronics PA-53

7. Thomas, Michael E., Ferroelectric Optical Data Storage, The Institute of NanoTechnology 3rd EuroConference NanoScience for Nanotechnology, Sept 16th - 19 th 2000 .

8. Thomas, Michael E., Ferroelectric molecular optical storage nanotechnology, Optical Storage and Optical Interface Processing, 26-28 July 2000, Taipei Taiwan [4081-38]

9. Thomas, Michael E., Ferroelectric molecular optical storage nanotechnology, SPIE's 45th Annual Meeting, The Int'l Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA 30 July to 4 Aug 2000.

10. Thomas, Michael E., UV Photon Induced Electric Field Poling of a Ferroelectric Atom, NanoMaterials for Defense Applications Symposium, Virginia Beach, Va., May 1 to 4 2006.

5,604,881 Ferroelectric storage device emulating a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system and having a multiplexed optical data interface

5,592,646 Ferroelectric storage device emulating a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system and having a parallel and multiplexed optical data interface

5,592,645 Ferroelectric storage device emulating a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system and having a frequency modulated (FM) data interface

5,592,644 Ferroelectric storage device emulating a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system and having an optical data interface

5,592,643 Ferroelectric storage device emulating a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system and having a parallel data interface

5,592,642 Ferroelectric storage device emulating a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system and having an optical and parallel data interface

5,359,726 Ferroelectric storage device used in place of a rotating disk drive unit in a computer system