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Munir Bannoura graduated in 1974 with a bachelors degree of science. He immediately joined Burroughs Corporation as a product engineer. He worked for the corporation in Plymouth, Michigan and Scotland, United Kingdom. In 1978, he joined the National Institute of Electricity and Electronics in Algeria, North Africa as a professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1984, he joined Motorola Technical Operations as a customer trainer and course  developer  and now works for Freescale Semiconductor.

Amy Dyson studied honors Computer Science at Texas A&M University, and graduated from Chatham College with a degree in Computer Science and English Literature. After graduating, Amy developed courses on Motorola microprocessor and microcontrollers, and taught these courses to customers worldwide. She later worked as an applications designer for embedded systems. Amy left Motorola in July 1996 and founded Andiamo Technologies, which specializes in training and in translating complicated, technical information into plain English. She's also written stories for Texas Music and Horns Illustrated (a sports magazine for the University of Texas).

Richard Soja graduated from Aberdeen University, Scotland in 1974 with a degree in Engineering Science. He first worked on power supply and stepper motor controller design at Burroughs Machines Limited in Scotland, followed by 5 years at Hughes Microelectronics where he worked on eeprom memories and developed digital and mixed signal production test systems. For the next 20 years, Richard worked for Motorola in Scotland and Austin Texas, primarily on industrial and automotive microcontroller application and design, and contributed to the architecture and design of the MPC5500 family. He continues his microcontroller architecture role with Freescale Semiconductor.

Margaret Frances received her master's degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1996. Since that time she has served as project manager and business analyst in software development in various industries including telecommunications and security. Margaret came to understand and appreciate the eTPU after joining her brother Andy Klumpp at ASH WARE Inc., as a contractor in 2003. In that capacity she helped to write the eTPU programming course, which is offered jointly by Freescale Semiconductor and ASH WARE. It was through that project that she and Munir met, after which Munir asked her to co-author eTPU Programming Made Easy.

Rudan Bettelheim graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster University) in 1979, when he joined Motorola Semiconductor in East Kilbride Scotland as a systems engineer. There, he developed many microcontroller applications for customers. In 1984 Rudan relocated to Munich Germany and in 1990 to Austin Texas, always within the Microcontroller business of Motorola. Over the years Rudan has worked in many different roles from design of the MPC500 family, to applications engineering, systems engineering, marketing, and tools product management. At the time of writing Rudan is in systems engineering in the Consumer and Industrial Operation of the Freescale Microcontroller Division. Rudan has been awarded 5 patents for microcontroller design.