[2] Prior to his retirement, he held the title of Chief Scientist at IBM.
[3] In 1968, Soltis completed his PhD in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.
[4] His PhD dissertation was titled "Automatic Allocation of Digital Computer Storage Resources for Time-sharing".
In the 1990s and early 2000s, in addition to his IBM responsibilities, Soltis served as an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota where he taught graduate courses on high performance computer design.
In February 2009, Vision Solutions announced that Soltis had joined their Technology Advisory Board.