Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

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Expert Details

Materials Engineering for New Designs, Cost Reduction, and Yield Improvement

ID: 722821 Illinois, USA

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Expert's experience includes:
1) Working with mechanical and electrical engineers to help make decisions about the materials and processed used to manufacture a product. The decisions include consideration of cost, manufacturability, materials and components lot-to- lot variations, reliability, materials availability, and environmental restrictions.
2) Working with manufacturing and quality engineers on understanding the impact of materials, processes, and supplier quality on manufacturing yields.
3) Materials selection, characterization, and implementation for cost reduction and quality improvement.
4) Working with suppliers to help them understand the effects of their processes on the materials characteristics and quality of the final product.
5) Developing tests to evaluate the reliability of materials used to make a product.

Expert has provided support to help designers understand in-house and supplier manufacturing and assembly capabilities. Examples include deciding which components could be masked off for a powdercoat process, the realistic plating tolerances for an electronic leadframe, and grain size tolerances for a steel making process.




Expert is experienced working with in-house manufacturing and suppliers to identify the key materials characteristics to monitor in order to evaluate component and assembly quality. He is also familiar with many of the analytical techniques used to evaluate materials characteristics. Some of the materials evaluations with which he is experienced are: grain size, composition, hardness, tensile behavior, layer thickness, viscosity, rheometry, microstructure, adhesion, and surface contamination. Some of the analytical techniques that he is familiar with include: optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS), x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), atomic absorption (AA), atomic emission spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), thermomechanical analysis (TMA), Fourier infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and various high vacuum surface science techniques.

Expert has worked as a process engineer and is familiar with statistical process control. As a design engineer he has experience writing specifications for materials and components.

Expert has been involved in various cost reduction efforts involving materials or supplier changes. These include: aluminum component supplier change for $50,000 annual savings; elimination of Sn plating from a contact for $150,000 annual savings; switching solder paste suppliers for $500,000 annual savings; and changing sheet steel suppliers for $1,000,000 annual savings. All these changes involved understanding the characteristics, quality, and reliability of the new materials.

Expert is working on a project to determine the feasibility of eliminating tin plating from the surface of a stainless steel part.He worked on a project to determine the root cause of a steel cosmetic defect, add the information to the supplier material requirements, and help qualify a new supplier. Expert worked on a project to characterize the effects of various metal fnishes on the adhesion of a sealant material to the surface.He helped with a competitive analysis to understand the relationship between the components' performance, materials properties, and cost. Expert worked on a project to understand the material and testing requirements to ensure final parts with good fatigue performance.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1991 Degree: Ph.D. Subject: Materials Science and Engineering Institution: Northwestern University
Year: 1987 Degree: M.S. Subject: Metallurgical Engineering Institution: University of Illinois - Urbana
Year: 1985 Degree: B.S. Subject: Metallurgical Engineering Institution: University of Illinois - Urbana

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2004 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: President Department:
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1999 to 2004 Employer: Motorola Title: Principal Staff Engineer Department: Automotive Electronics
Responsibilities:
Expert was responsible for materials selection, evaluation and implementation for: 1) new designs, 2) cost reduction, 3) quality improvement, and 4) manufacturing yield improvement.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1997 to 1999 Employer: Motorola Title: Principal Staff Engineer Department: R&D
Responsibilities:
He was involved in the development of new processes for electronics manufacturing.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1991 to 1997 Employer: Motorola Title: Process Engineer Department: Semiconductor Products Sector
Responsibilities:
Expert was a process engineer in an integrated circuit factory. He was responsible for cost reduction, yield improvement, cycle time reduction, development and implementation of new processes.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Expert is a member of ASM, IEEE, SMTA, and IMAPS.
Licenses / Certifications
He is a Registered P.E. in Illinois.
Professional Appointments
Expert was program chair for his local ASM chapter, and served on the Technical Book Committee for ASM International.
Publications and Patents Summary
He has five publications, and is working on a sixth. He has two patents.

Fields of Expertise

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