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EXECUTIVE & SENIOR TECHNICAL STAFF BIOGRAPHIESCraig Hillman, CEO and Managing PartnerDr. Hillman’s specialties include best practices in Design for Reliability (DfR), Pb-Free strategies for transitioning to Pb-free, supplier qualification (commodity and engineered products), passive component technology (capacitors, resistors, etc.), and printed board failure mechanisms. Dr. Hillman has over 40 Publications and has presented on a wide variety of reliability issues to over 250 companies and organizations.
Email: chillman@dfrsolutions.com Nathan Blattau, Vice President & Chief ScientistDr. Blattau has been involved in the packaging and reliability of electronic equipment for over eight years. Dr. Blattau is also experienced in failure analysis and accelerated testing methods. His primary research interests are in the areas of design-for-reliability in electronic packaging, nonlinear finite element analysis, solder joint reliability, fracture, and fatigue mechanics of materials.
Email: nblattau@dfrsolutions.com James McLeish, CRE, Senior Technical Staff & Michigan Office ManagerMr. McLeish has 30 years of automotive Electrical/Electronics (E/E) experience. He has worked in systems engineering, design, development, production, validation, reliability and quality assurance of both components and vehicle systems. He holds three patents, is the author or co-author of three GM E/E validation and test standards and is credited with the introduction of Physics-of-Failure engineering techniques to GM.
Email: jmcleish@dfrsolutions.com Randy Schueller, Senior Technical Staff & Minnesota Office ManagerDr. Schueller has held numerous management and leadership positions at companies including 3M and Extreme Devices (an Austin high tech start-up company), where he developed flex-based IC packages. He has also worked at Dell, where he assisted in resolving failures in IC packages, connectors, PWBs, and assembly issues. He currently holds 15 patents and has authored and presented over 30 papers within the electronics industry. Dr. Schueller is the head of DfR’s office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which opened in November 2008.
Email: rschueller@dfrsolutions.com Ron Wunderlich, Senior Technical StaffDr. Ron Wunderlich is widely recognized as a leader in the design, analysis and diagnostics of power supply and analog circuitry. He is highly proficient in switch mode power supply design, analog circuitry, magnetic components, power supply switching ASICs and simulation at both macro level and device physics level. Customers have experienced a particularly high level of return on investment (ROI) with Ron’s Design for EMI/EMC activities. Ron has been responsible for power supply CCA and ASIC design and development, among other activities at Celestica and IBM. Dr. Wunderlich holds 6 patents and has authored 20 papers.
Email: rwunderlich@dfrsolutions.com Cheryl Tulkoff, CRE, Senior Technical Staff & Texas Office ManagerCheryl Tulkoff is an industry renowned expert in the fields of semiconductor fabrication, electronics assembly, RoHS conversion, and reliability engineering and management. Prior to joining DfR, Ms. Tulkoff had an active leadership role both within her employer’s companies and among regional and national electronics and reliability organizations. At her most recent position at National Instruments, Cheryl developed a comprehensive reliability organization, including the creation of an internal failure analysis group and a closed loop reliability program. She has also taken the lead in process development and implementation in semiconductor fabrication through her work at Cypress Semiconductor in electronics assembly, and through her work at IBM. Cheryl is the head of DfR’s newest office located in Austin, Texas, which opened in February 2009.
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