Marlon is a Chemical Engineer and PhD candidate in Materials Science Engineering. He has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in the field of Quality, R&D, Laboratory Operation, Electro-plating, Failure Analysis, and Reliability having worked for Philips Semiconductors, SunPower Mfg. Ltd., International Rectifier, and DECA Technologies.

He is a former faculty at Malayan College laguna, Lyceum of the Philippines Laguna, and Colegio de San Juan de Letran having taught for more than 14 years. Marlon is also a former officer of the Council for Failure Analysis and Reliability (CFAR) and is currently a technical assessor of DTI-PAB for ISO/IEC17025, and a member of the DTI Technical Committee for Nanotechnology (TC85).