Technical Committee
Conference Chair: Diganta Das, Ph.D., CALCE/ University of Maryland
Dr. Diganta Das (Ph.D., University of Maryland, B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology) is a Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering. His current research interests include electronic parts supply chain, counterfeit electronics avoidance and detection, light-emitting diode failure mechanisms, cooling systems in telecommunications infrastructure and their impact on reliability, and power electronics reliability. In addition, Dr. Das is involved in prognostics-based risk mitigation of electronics. Dr. Das has published more than 75 articles on these subjects and presented his research at international conferences and workshops.
He is the Founding Chair of the CALCE/SMTA Counterfeit Parts and Materials Symposium since 2007. He is chair of the SAE committee developing counterfeit assembly detection standards. He also participates in several other SAE standard development related to counterfeit electronics. Dr. Das leads the educational outreach of CALCE developing joint educational programs, training and internship, and professional development programs. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of IEEE, IMAPS, and SMTA.
Ian Blackman, IIOM
Ian spent more than thirty years in the Avionics and Defence Industry working in senior roles within Procurement, Component Engineering, and Obsolescence Strategy Development. He is the former CTO of the International Institute of Obsolescence Management and is a fellow of that organisation He is also the co-owner of the UK based but international Anticounterfeiting Forum which has more than 1100 active members.
Keith Bryant, KB Consultancy
A fully qualified engineer, Keith has over thirty years of experience in Electronics Manufacturing. He is well-known and respected for presenting technical papers at many high-profile events around the world and for his many published articles and interviews. He started his career in this industry with bare printed circuit boards in the early days of high-count multi-layer technology, moving through to running contract manufacturing operations. He had ten years of experience with advanced materials and soldering systems before working with high technology x-ray and AOI Systems, again for 10 years. Then for almost 3 years, Keith worked as a technology and business consultant, assisting many of the major industry names. From 2017 to 2019 he was the Global Sales Director of the leading X-ray manufacturer. Later on, Keith reverted to a technology and business consultancy role allowing him to pursue other interesting projects, including i4.0 and working with an advanced x-ray tube manufacturer. He was Chairman of the SMART Group for 11 years and is now Chairman of SMTA Europe.
Nigel Burtt, Renishaw Plc
Nigel is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET. Since graduating from the University of Warwick with a Master’s degree in Electrical & Electronic Systems Engineering, his career has been dedicated to high-reliability electronic equipment manufacturing, and project management of new products and process introductions. This includes a period of almost 25 years with Dolby Laboratories working with their multimedia products produced in the UK and USA for the professional market, and just over 10 years with his current employer, Renishaw, making industrial metrology products in the UK. Well-known in the industry with an excellent network of contacts, he is an active committee member of the industry advisory body, SMTA Europe and its predecessor the SMART Group. He is also employed as an advisor, on environmental regulatory matters, to the International Association of Broadcast Manufacturers as a member of their Technical Task Group. On behalf of the IABM he is also a member of the UK government’s Office for Product Safety & Standards Business Reference Panel.
Michael Ford, Aegis Corporation
Working for Aegis Software provides Michael with the opportunity to apply his years of electronics assembly manufacturing experience, to drive both business process and technology solution innovation with customers and partners, that satisfy evolving needs in digital manufacturing, in a way that is value-driven and sustainable. Starting his career with Sony, including eight years working in Japan, Michael has been instrumental in creating and evolving leading software solutions for assembly manufacturing, that meet the most demanding expectations, leading the industry forward. Today, Michael is an established thought leader for Industry 4.0 and digital Smart factories, an active contributor to IPC industry standards, including the Connected Factory Exchange (CFX) and IPC-1782 traceability standard, as well as helping promote and position others that together form IPCs digital manufacturing “best practices”. Michael regularly contributes articles, columns and blogs to several leading industry publications.
Tom Katsioulas, GSA Trusted IoT Ecosystem Security solutions (TIES)
Tom Katsioulas has many years of experience in management, strategy and engineering in EDA, semiconductors, embedded systems, enterprise software and IoT applications. Tom is the Board Chair of the GSA Trusted IoT Ecosystem Security solutions (TIES). Before that, he was the head of TrustChain Business at Siemens focusing on supply chain security and traceability solutions from chip-to-device and device-to-cloud with ecosystem partners. Tom has held various executive, management, business strategy and marketing positions in large companies and startups including, Digital Equipment, Cadence, Synopsys, AmmoCore Technology and Forte Design Automation.
Sultan Ali Lilani, Director of Technical Support at Integra Technologies
Sultan has in-depth knowledge of Reliability Engineering, Testing and Qualification for Aerospace, Defense and Industrial applications for microelectronics products of various technologies. Sultan has served in various industry committees including being current SAE chair for PEMs Committee, current co-chair for Copper Bond Wire Committee, current co-chair for SAE CE-12 Counterfeit Committee and former co-chair of SAE G19A Committee which developed the AS6171 standards to detect suspect counterfeit components.
Giovan
na Mura, University of Cagliari
Giovanna Mura received the PhD Degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 2004, and since 2012, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering. She teaches Reliability of electronic systems and Diagnostic of electronic devices in the MSc courses on Electronic Engineering. Her research activity is mainly focused on failure physics, diagnostics of microelectronics, reliability in harsh environments. Her current research interests include the physical detection of counterfeit electronics. Since 2012, she has been involved in the TPC of several editions of the European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF). She is the author of more than 67 papers published in international journals or presented in international conferences. She is also a member of IEEE and SMTA.
Roger Rogowski, Anti-Counterfeiting Forum
Roger is a co-owner of Anti-Counterfeiting Forum, which has for over ten years provided a comprehensive online resource disseminating information on the threats and trends relating to counterfeiting in the electrotechnical industry and organised annual seminars and periodic webinars. Roger has worked in the industry for nearly fifty years, during which time he has fulfilled a wide range of management roles in sales, marketing, procurement, inventory, major bid, operations and project management for companies such as Arrow Electronics, HCA Healthcare, Jermyn Distribution, Lex Electronics, Minco Technology Labs, Quantel, QinetiQ and Zeus Electronics. He is a past Chairman of the Component Obsolescence Group and he was also a director of the National Obsolescence Centre. For nine years, he provided the secretariat for the UK Electronics Alliance, a consortium of leading UK trade associations representing the UK electronic systems community, coordinating industry-wide initiatives and working with government departments and agencies.
Cameron Shearon, Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Cameron Shearon is a Principal Materials Engineer with Raytheon Missile & Defense. He is the lead for Destructive Physical Analysis and Commercial Services Business. Prior to his current role he was the owner of Shearon-Consulting, and a SMTA Distinguished Speaker. Cameron has given invited speeches at many international events. He earned a BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University. He obtained a Physics minor for his BS and a Solid State Science minor for his MS. Cameron initiated and co-chairs IPC 1782, a global component traceability standard, which has been adopted by the US Department of Defense, that contains four traceability levels for materials and four independent traceability levels for the process that was completed in record time with the help of many outstanding contributors, IPC Staff support, and his leadership. As a result of his contribution to this standard, Cameron received a Committee Leadership Award from IPC at IPC APEX EXPO 2017. He has also worked as a Process Engineer in a Wafer Fab, as well as, a Failure Analysis Engineer, and Product Safety Engineer in an R&D Environment, a Lead Quality Engineer with AT&T’s Global Supply Chain, and a Reliability Engineer with AT&T Labs. ETSI adopted and published his contribution in early 2016, which established the fundamental foundation for his current work of developing a standard portfolio of very granular in situ custom probe level metrics, as well as, an expandable & extendable framework for those metrics along with an associated governance structure for the new global software-defined telecommunications networks that can be used by Big Data groups among others to help make everyday decisions. Cameron chaired the Multi-Standard Development Organization (SDO) metric effort for TM Forum and includes members from ETSI, NIST, and QuEST Forum. In addition, he chaired the NFV Metric Landscape effort for Quest Forum. Cameron has participated as a member in a multiple-phase TM Catalyst project that has won several awards (e.g., Best Technical Contribution, Best In Show).
Kevin Sink, TTI, Inc.
Kevin Sink is the VP, Total Quality at TTI, Inc., the global authorized distributor of electronic components based in Fort Worth, Texas. Kevin participates in three SAE committees developing standards for counterfeit mitigation, as a member of the SAE G-19D for Independent Distribution, G-19T for terms and definitions and is the Co-Chair of SAE's G-19AD for Authorized Distribution. He has spoken at several industries and OEM symposia on the topic. Much of Kevin's research is centered around the industry's experience with standards and outside regulations and the translation of these into specific company practices. Kevin holds a BBA and MBA from Texas A&M University and has served in capacities within TTI from Sales to Product Management to Sales Operations before assuming responsibility for Quality. Prior to joining TTI, Kevin worked in Purchasing with General Dynamics. Coupling his experience in the mil/aero and electronics industries since 1988 with his interests in the issue, Kevin brings the perspective of authorized distribution to bear on best practices in counterfeit risk mitigation.
Stuart Saunders, MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre)
Stuart is a secretary and officer for the SMTA Europe Chapter. He has a lifelong experience in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, starting out in a technical apprenticeship at GEC, The General Electric Company progressing through manufacturing, process engineering, and industrialization roles there and at Alstom, Celestica, Areva, and Rolls-Royce Nuclear. Now working as a Senior Research Engineer at the MTC, he technically leads a wide range of projects, either directly in support of industry clients or as core research and process capability development for the MTC and its members. Topics covered include, low stress, harsh and hi-reliability manufacturing, digital manufacturing/Industry 4.0/Smart Factory, Dfx/DfM (design for manufacture), process innovation, facility design and capability acquisition.
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For more information about the Technical Program and Professional Development Courses, please contact Dr. Diganta Das, Conference Chair, CALCE
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