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Expert is internationally renowned in the field of fine-pitch, chip scale, wafer level, and general surface mount electronic design and assembly. He is credited with founding the first U.S. based surface mount technology (SMT) contract design and assembly foundry and one of the first chip scale package companies. The contract manufacturing facility utilizes automated assembly lines and computer aided design (CAD) methods to aid in design for surface mount assembly. Expert is an expert in fine pitch and small component soldering techniques for surface mount, and these techniques include work involving solder paste, wave, and multiwave soldering, adhesive attach, and reflow soldering. He has managed product designs and manufacturing groups. His first company, AWI (now SCI's western division), is credited with designing and manufacturing many of the SMT "firsts", such memory and camera modules Others include flex circuits, SMT design and workmanship standards, tablelet computers, SIMM modules, portable medical products, disc drives, multi-chip products, and fine pitch products.

Expert has managed companies starting with as few as two partners up to a team of 250 employees. He has managed large projects with responsibility for forming and coordinating teams from multiple companies and countries. During his active years in business creation and management he has successfully raised equity (VC, Angel, and private), sold companies, and negotiated licensing, debt, leasing, and real estate agreements.

Expert co-founded and managed a company responsible for creating one of largest portfolios of IP for wafer level and related semiconductor packaging technologies. He was directly involved in defending the validity and ownership of this portfolio in multiple litigation which spanned over 6 years. He is the named inventor on six of the >40 patents in the portfolio.

At one of largest EMS companies, he implemented an inhouse (California ETP funded) SPC and Juran Quality training program. This helped this company win the Malcolm Baldridge Award. He has provided management consulting for several leading electronic assembly companies. He list of companies served includes to largest EMS company, the largest OSAT company, and the largest manufacturer of electronic materials. He has provided onsite factory improvement asessments and recovery plans for several companies.One of his recent projects involved helping architect a large (> billion units per year) for a large US maufacturer.Recommended and arranged introductions between a large multi-national product OEM and a large multi-national contract assembler.Engaged to review and select sites and infrastructure to be built by the largest market cap company.