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The following individuals earned Professional Certification (ESD Program Manager) during 2007:

John Clack	John has been employed with Trek, Inc. in Medina, NY since 1979. He is currently the International Accounts Manager for Trek, Inc. responsible for sales and distribution into Europe, Middle East, India, and South America. Previous positions at Trek, Inc. include Sales Engineer, Customer Service Supervisor, Test Department Supervisor, and Test technician. Prior to Trek, John was a Data Systems technician in the US Navy. John has been a member of the ESDA since 2003 and also a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS) since 2003. Interests outside of work include hunting, fishing, gardening, and of course home remodeling.

Timothy T. Fox	Tim Is currently ESD & PFMEA Coordinator For Delphi Electronics. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston. Tim has been married for 26 years, and has two children. interests include: Rock climbing, camping, martial arts and cooking

Chris Lemke	Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology Management from the State University of New York (SUNY), Empire State Campus. Currently he is an active member of the Trek, Inc. sales team, where he provides technical and application assistance to customers. Since 1993, Chris has been affiliated with various sectors of the semiconductor / thin films industry, such as ENI Power Systems and Balzers, Inc. Chris also served in the USAF as an Avionics Technician, repairing RF communication and navigation equipment. In addition to his membership with the Electrostatic Discharge Association, he is presently a member of the American Vacuum Society and the Electrostatics Society of America. He presently holds an FCC General Radio Telephone license. Chris shares his love for the outdoors with his wife Deanne. Chris' hobbies include auto sports (NHRA drag racing), sport shooting, hunting and fishing, and auto restoration.

Daniel Mitchell	Daniel is currently an Electronics Control Engineer at Trane. He graduated from the University of Texas at Tyler with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and is currently attending classes to receive his Master of Engineering. He has worked on the controls for Trane’s CleanEffects and American Standard’s AccuClean. He is currently working on the next generation of thermostat or Comfort Control. Daniel has been married for 11 years and has four kids. He recently finished building his house in Tyler, Texas doing 90% of the labor. Now that it is complete, he will return to enjoying time computer gaming, landscaping, and enjoying time with his family.

Elwin Rego	Elwin J. Rego received a B.E degree in Electronic Engineering from Bangalore University, India in 1983 and a MBA degree from the State University of New York Buffalo in 1987 with concentrations in Management Information Systems and Marketing. During this time he received Alpha Mu Alpha Scholastic honors. He is currently employed as a Sales Engineer at Trek, Inc., a manufacturer of Electrostatic Measurement and Control equipment, High Voltage amplifiers and Electrostatic Voltmeters. Elwin also has many years of prior work experience as a Product Manager / Program Manager at a number of high technology computer hardware, instrumentation and medical device companies. Outside of work he enjoys jogging, playing racquetball and golf. Elwin and his wife Susan have been married for 16 years and have two children; a daughter Angela and a son Ryan.

Ron Slaby	Ron Slaby is a sales engineer working for TREK, Inc a manufacturer of ESD Instrumentation, High Voltage Amplifiers and Electro-static voltmeters. He is responsible for promoting the sale of Trek products in the Western portion of the US and Canada. Ron graduated from the State University of New York with a Bachelors of Science degree in 1991. In his time away from work Ron enjoys tournament fishing, nature and environmental conservation efforts.

Patsawat Tachamaneekorn	Patsawat Tachamaneekorn is an ESD Program Manager at Seagate Technology, Teparuk, Thailand. He has been employed at Seagate since 1995 as an ESD & Contamination Control Engineer. Patsawat has been a member of the ESD Association since 1999 and has worked on translating ESD Association's standard documents into Thai. Most recently ANSI/ESD S20.20 - 2007. As well as being the first Thai who got an ESD Certified Professional Program Manager, Patsawat is also the first Thai who got NARTE Certified ESD Engineer. Patsawat earned his Master's Degree in Business Administration from Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand and his Bachelor Degree in Electronics Engineering from Assumption University, Thailand.

Kep Pen Yan	Yan Kep Pen is a senior manager in the Quality Management department in Infineon Technologies Malaysia. He has 27 years of experience in the semiconductor packaging industry, mainly in reliability testing and failure analysis. In 1995, he undertook additional responsibility as the ESD Coordinator for the semiconductor packaging plant in Malaysia, an appointment he has held ever since. He heads a highly motivated team in Infineon Technologies Malaysia and together they have made tremendous improvement and breakthroughs in ESD protection. He is the site trainer on ESD related topics for Infineon Technologies Malaysia. His experience and knowledge in the field validates his representation of Infineon Malaysia in the Infineon World Wide ESD team. He is also the Infineon ESD representative for customers in the Asia Pacific region. He has provided numerous ESD training to customers and also supported many customers on ESD assessment of their production lines. KP Yan is a member of ESD Association since the year 2001. To date, he has contributed four technical papers to the EOS/ESD Symposium.

The following individuals earned Professional Certification (ESD Program Manager) during 2006:

Dale Fuller	Dale Fuller has been employed at Seagate Technology in Longmont, California, since 1997. He is an ESD Staff Engineer, and only started working in the ESD field in 2005. He functioned as an automation engineer for most of his career. Dale earned his BSEE from the University of Colorado in 1982.

Brad Klepsa	Brad Klepsa Advanced Telemetry Systems has quality management and engineering experience in the automotive, medical, communications and software industries along with governmental agencies. He has applied quality methodologies and implemented ISO 9001 and QS-9000 quality management systems in the areas of electronics, software, plastics and machining for the past 16 years. Brad is trained as a lead auditor in QS-9000 and ISO 9001 and is an ASO Senior Member holding Certified Quality Manager, CQA and CQE certifications. Brad holds a BS degree in Electronics Engineering Technology and minors in Computer Science and Automotive Engineering Technology. Brad is on of the quality management trainers for South Central College in Faribault, MN. Brad coaches/supervises community education football, baseball, basketball and billiards.

Marcus Koh	Marcus Koh is a Sales Application Director for Everfeed Technology Private Limited, with territory covering South-East Asia and People’s Republic of China. He has conducted Megasonic/Ultrasonic Training, ESD/ESA Contamination & Control presentations, ESD Assessments and consultations for Multi-National companies. He has also trained various engineers internally and externally on ESD Control, ANSI/ESD S20.20 methodology, ANSI/ESD STM3.1-2000 Ionization. Marcus graduated with First Class Honors with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. There he was awarded the PUB Book Prize for outstanding performance in the subject “Power electronics and Drives.” He received a Letter of Commendation from the Dean of the School, and was ranked as among the best in his graduating class. Marcus’ interests include jogging, windsurfing, weight-lifting, tennis swimming and classical music.

Jim Krzmarzick	Jim earned his BSEE from the University of Houston and is an Air Force veteran. He is currently a senior electrical engineer in a test lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. He serves as the ESD Control Program Manager for the lab, and also certifies control programs in other facilities on and off-site, and performs testing of ESD control products. He has several other responsibilities as well, including performing harness testing, parts screening, DPA and FA, and managing the wire and cable testing program at JSC. He also serves on several task groups of the Aerospace Wire and Cable subcommittee of the SAE Aerospace Council. Jim and his wife Sylvia are animal lovers, have three dogs, love to cook and travel. Jim loves the outdoors and finds serenity in his garden. He also enjoys sports and yoga, and is active in politics.

Keith Smith	Keith works at Honeywell in Mississauga, Ontario, as a Materials & Process Engineer. He has a Master’s degree in Biological Engineering from the University of Guelph and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University.

Luis Velazquez	Luis Velazquez graduated with honors from the University of Puerto Rico in June 2004 with a major in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Process Instrumentation and Automation. He works as a Manufacturing Engineer for Curtis Instruments at the Carolina, Puerto Rico, Manufacturing site. Working as part of one of the industry’s leaders in motor speed controllers, he was in charge of various manufacturing lines, including the 1244 Motor Controller which is used in applications such as fork lifts, personnel carriers and other industrial vehicles. During March 2006 he began the preparations to complete the ESDA’s ESD Certified Professional-Program Manager certification by first attending to the two tutorial courses offered at Austin, Texas: Cleanroom Considerations for the Program Manager and Air Ionization Issues and Answers. Later, taking advantage of the different scheduled tutorials given by the ESDA he was able to take the other courses required for the certification, learning lots of information from the instructors while meeting and making some good friends along the way. He continues to be in charge of some manufacturing lines at Curtis Instruments, while at the same time being in charge of developing and upholding their ESD Control Procedure, researching and implementing further improvements in their ESD control strategies as part of his company’s continuous improvement efforts.

The following individuals earned Professional Certification (ESD Program Manager) during 2005:

Kevin Duncan	Kevin Duncan is an ESD Staff Engineer at Seagate Technology, Bloomington, MN. He has been employed at Seagate since 2005 and is responsible for controlling ESD in the Slider and Head Gimbal Assembly (HGA) processes. Kevin has been a member of the ESD Association since 2000 and is currently a member of the ESDA Standard Committee, Technical and Administration Support Committee and Working Group 9.0, Footwear. Kevin graduated in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin – Stout where here received his Bachelor of Science Degree.

Tom Larson	Tom Larson has been Sales Manager at TREK, INC. in Medina, NY since early 2006. Prior to that he was a Sales Engineer at the company for 3 years, focusing on the company’s ESD-management product line of electrostatic voltmeter instruments, sensors and monitors. Tom was also instrumental in developing a series of seminars for TREK customers and others in ESD-sensitive environments, to help them better understand the nuances of ESD management in their facilities. Tom’s certification by the ESDA was an essential component of that effort. Refer to the enclosed news release for additional information. Tom is also a member of ASM and IS&T. Prior to joining TREK, Tom was Applications Engineering Manager at DTI for 6 years. He also worked in sales at DTI. He’s also held positions as Project Manager and Software Engineering Manager. Tom graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He pursued additional studies (Masters in Computer Science) at Renssalear Polytechnic Institute. Tom is married with 2 children. He is a roller hockey coach, likes to explore the internet and enjoys discussions about space exploration.

Doug Miller	Doug Miller received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of New Mexico in 1994 and a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1982. During this time he earned Alpha Phi Sigma and Sigma Pi Sigma Scholastic Membership. From ‘85 to ‘91 he was employed by defense contractors BDM Corporation, BDMMSC, and UIE. During this time he was fully engaged in strategic defense initiative projects, small business innovative research prototype development, electrical overstress analysis of weapon systems, and operation, maintenance, and testing of weapon systems. In 1993 he joined the Pantex Plant work force as an employee for Battelle Memorial Institute where he was responsible for developing and disseminating electrical safety policy, evaluation of facilities, equipment, testers, and manufacturing processes in nuclear explosive safety areas. He developed and provided demonstrations to customers as well as training classes for engineers and technicians. He was a technical advisor to national study groups and management. Since working at the Pantex Plant he has been awarded the Defense Programs Award of Excellence, the Pantex Scientific Advancement Award, and twice awarded the Pantex Key Contributor Award. In 2001 he transitioned to BWXT Pantex as a Section Engineer where he provided technical and management leadership for nuclear explosive electrical safety program at Pantex. He mentored and managed Pantex electrical engineers on the art of nuclear weapon electrical safety. He provided policy interpretation, management system design and implementation, guidance to engineers and technicians, customer service and informational briefings. He was a qualified voting nuclear explosive safety study group member. Also, he was an advisor or member in numerous nuclear explosive safety studies and DOE explosive safety committee meetings. He was a subject matter expert for nuclear explosive safety study groups, explosive safety committees, defense nuclear safety facility boards and the DOE. He created, produced, and managed computer modeling, analysis, and approvals for electrical concerns in Nuclear Explosive Areas. In 2004 he became a technical staff member for Sandia National Laboratories located at the Pantex Tri-Laboratory Office. There he functions as a quality engineer for nuclear weapons manufacturing, surveillance, assembly of flight test units, assembly of laboratory test units, and laboratory testing of test units for all of the nuclear weapons programs. Mr. Miller serves as a qualified voting nuclear explosive safety study group member and electrostatic discharge control management expert advisor for nuclear explosive safety studies. Outside of work he enjoys supporting and working with grade school and high school children in sports, religion, and arts. Doug and his wife Julie have been married for 20 years and have four children, one in high school and three in grade school.

Carl Newberg	Carl Newberg is the President of MicroStat Laboratories/River’s Edge Technical Service, an independent testing laboratory and consulting service to the static and contamination control industries. He is a NARTE Certified ESD Engineer and an ESD Association Certified ESD Program Manager. He is currently the contamination Control Senior Scientist for Magnecomp Precision. Carl has been a member of the ESD Association since 1995, and is an active member of the Standards Committee, participating in working groups on ionization, packaging, cleanrooms, garments and gloves. Carl was the Technical Program Committee Chairman for the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium, the Vice General Chairman for the 2005 EOS/ESD Symposium, and the General Chairman for the 2006 EOS/ESD Symposium.

Robert Perry	Robert “Bert” Perry was born a Buckeye, raised a Hoosier, and became a Spartan by the grace of God. He has been active in ESD control in the magnetic recording/hard drive industry since 1997, and has authored six ESDA papers while working for Quantum, Maxtor, and Seagate Technology. Bert has been active in ESDA technical program committees since 1999, and is currently involved in investigations of ESD and magnetic reliability. When not reminding his employer “don’t lose your head over ESD,” Bert can generally be found enjoying the delightful company of his wife, roughhousing with his children, or making a mess in the kitchen or the wood shop.

Timothy Prass	Timothy Prass is a Senior Quality Engineer with Raytheon. There he is AS9100 Program Manager, Lead Internal Auditor, Business Unit Quality Metrics Lead, and Site ESD Lead. He is a member of the Raytheon ESD Council, currently implementing a corporate-wide ESD policy and specification. Timothy has 25 years experience in design and manufacturing of electromechanical products with Trane Air Conditioning Co., United Technologies - Carrier, and Raytheon Indianapolis. He earned his BSME from Michigan State University, and MBA from Butler University. Timothy is the secretary of ESDA Working Group 5.3, and a member of the Standards Committee.