Harold Martin held numerous engineering and managerial
positions in the United States, culminating in his service
as general manager of IBM's manufacturing and development
facility in Rochester,
Minn. from August 1977 to March 1981. In addition,
he was a key participant in IBM's business outside the
United States.
The following is the text of a corporate biography
published in November 1972.
Harold F. Martin, general manager of the Advanced
Systems Development Division, joined IBM in 1951 as
a design engineer at Endicott, New York.
Since then, he has held numerous engineering and managerial
positions at various IBM locations in the United States
and has served in key posts with the company's World
Trade Corporation in New York and Paris.
As an engineering manager he organized several new
departments for the company in the advanced technology
area. Mr. Martin also has guided the development, fabrication
and delivery of several special purpose products and
systems including: the Language Translation equipment
for the New York World's Fair; a prototype electron
beam recorder for IBM's trillion bit file; an Optical
Image terminal (later the IBM 2760); and the video Image
Distribution System for the RAND Corporation. He has
eight issued U.S. patents.
Prior to his present position which he has held since
January 1970, Mr. Martin was manager of IBM's Mohansic
Systems Laboratory, the East Coast Facility of the Advanced
Systems Development Division.
Mr. Martin received his B.S. degree in physics from
the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin and their four children reside
in Chappaqua, New York.
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