• Electronics
• Legal
• Manufacturing
• Research
• Technology

This expert has a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University.

This expert has a M.A. in Chemistry from Columbia University.

This expert has a M.S. in Liquid Crystal Science from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University.

This expert has a D Sc. (honorary), Science from Ohio University.

Lead-Free Electronics Manufacturing Expert Consultant Resume

This associate has expertise in SMT electronic packaging interconnection and assembly manufacturing as a pioneer and major contributor since its inception. This consultant has provided hands-on solutions to challenging design, production and reliability issues, as well as served as an advisor to the U.S. government and OEM/EMS companies worldwide. Engagements cover a wide spectrum of capacities ranging from U.S. Department of Defense F-22 Project and commercial electronics manufacturing to improving production yield and product reliability to assessing future technologies. This consultant has also served as an expert witness for product liability, intellectual property, and patent infringement issues.

This consultant is a world-class expert and author on topics including implementing environment-friendly electronics including lead-free manufacturing and technology, modern solder technology for competitive electronics manufacturing, IC ball grid array and fine pitch peripheral interconnections, solder paste for electronic packaging. More topics include technology and applications for surface mount, hybrid circuits, and component manufacturing. Additional writings include electronic packaging, technology and applications for surface mount, hybrid circuits, and IC component manufacturing.

Additionally, this consultant is a prolific author and speaker on education, workforce, and social and business issues. Topics addressed include leadership, preparation for new millennium-education, technology and workforce, and education in science and engineering. Further issues include modern manufacturing workforce, Asia's road to economic recovery, accelerated tax depreciation for high-tech manufacturing, and virtual corporations. Additional topics include the modern woman, women in education, technology and workforce, building trade and relations with China, and international trade and trade promotion authority. This consultant has addressed outsourcing or not and to what extent, changes and coping with changes, welcoming the digital economy, and globalization (technology, trade, and workforce).

This consultant has served on the Board of NYSE Fortune 500 companies, and various civic and university boards, and has also served on various boards and committees of government and universities and civic organizations, including U.S. Commerce Department's Export Council and Advanced Technology Program, National Academies' Diversity Forum and National Laboratories Assessment Panel, NASA, Department of Defense's Globalization Committee and Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies Committee, Council on World Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, among others. This consultant has served as a reviewer for U.S. government programs and for numerous publications and research institutions.

Government-Related Program Involvement has Included

• U.S. Department of Defense / National Research Council - Globalization Committee
• U.S. Department of Defense / National Research Council - Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies Committee
• National Research Council / National Academies - National Laboratories Evaluation Panel
• National Research Council / National Academy of Engineering - Diversity Forum
• National Research Council / National Academies - Reviewer - Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research career
• Member - U. S. Commerce Department District Export Council
• Reviewer - NIST Advanced Technology Program
• Business Review Board - NIST Advanced Technology Program
• Business reviewer - NASA Small Business Program
• Panel - NIST Laboratories Assessment
• Advisor / consultant - DoD programs (F-22)
• Advisor / consultant - (U.S. Army Research)