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Our Next Meeting

Date/Time: 8/14/08, 7:00 pm
Location: Champlain College, Ireland Global Business & Technology Center Room 117
Speaker: Robert W. Bloch
Topic: "Entrepreneurship at Champlain College and Associated Resources for the Community"

Jerrold C. Manock
President, MCD, INC.
Email: jcmanock@mac.com

Mr. Manock has practiced professionally in both California and New England, combining creative idea synthesis, human factors, a working knowledge of high, medium, and low-volume manufacturing processes for metals, plastics, and wood, with the ability to plan and carry a project from concept sketch through models and working drawings to the finalization of tooled production prototypes.

Mr. Manock founded a product design consulting business in 1976 and has also been employed by consumer electronics companies Hewlett Packard, Telesensory Systems, and Apple Computer where, as Corporate Manager of Product Design, he had responsibility for the Apple II, Apple III, and original Macintosh personal computers. Other consulting projects have included sports and medical research equipment and passive solar architectural design.

Since moving to Vermont with his wife and two daughters in 1985 he has been involved with teaching at both UVM and Burlington High School, and is the Executive Director of the Nyctea Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that fosters computer literacy in graphic arts in Native American secondary schools. He is currently active in helping plan a grade 9-14 Institute of Career Academies for Chittenden County as a member of the Curriculum Design Committee, the Technical Education Committee, and the Site Selection Committee and was a member of the 2000-2001 Leadership Champlain Class, sponsored by the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Manock graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1966 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, in 1968.


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