Certified Professionals

David E. Swenson retired from 3M after 35 years of service in 2003.  The majority of his career involved electrostatic investigation, solutions to static problems, and related new product development.  After retirement, Swenson and his wife, Geri, established Affinity Static Control Consulting, LLC, to offer electrostatic solutions to industry. He has been a member of the ESD Association since 1984 and has served as Symposium General Chairman, Sr. Vice President (twice), President (1998 and 1999), and has been elected to the Board of Directors for 5 terms. A long term member of the Standards Committee and Working Group Chair for several activities, Swenson has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers on ionization, packaging materials, triboelectrification, test methods for ESD materials, and ESD control program implementation.  He has received the Association’s Outstanding Contributions Award and the Joel P. Weidendorf Memorial Award for service to standards development.  David is currently serving as President of the ESD Association. 

Dave Girard is currently an ESD Technical Consultant and owner of Staticon Support Services, Inc., located in Tampa, Florida. 

For the past few years, he has been deeply involved in the ESD standards development process.  He has supported numerous ESD Association Working Groups in addition to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and provided feedback to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on specifications containing ESD requirements. 

Dave previously ran the Honeywell Aerospace corporate ESD program in addition to the site ESD program in Clearwater, Florida.  Throughout his career, Dave has held various positions in Electronics Test, Reliability Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Quality Management. 

Dave has been a member of the ESD Association since 1987.  He has been an iNARTE Certified Electrostatic Discharge Engineer since 1995.  He is a senior member of both the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).  He is also ASQ certified in both Quality Engineering and Quality Auditing. 

Dave has a B.S.E. degree in Engineering from the University of South Florida. 

David Kirk is currently a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Hologic, Inc. Newark, DE site; starting in 2008.  David holds a BSEE from Drexel University, and is currently working to establish a sound ESD program for manufacture of cutting edge mammography x-ray detectors, based on thin film transistor arrays on glass substrate.  Similar to the flat panel display industry, this process has many challenges for ESD control and mitigation.  David has recently joined WG-21 to further the science of ESD in flat panel technology.

David was formerly employed by Agilent and HP for a combined 31 years, where he was involved in new product design; test, and manufacturing engineering.

David and his wife have 3 sons, 3 daughters in law, and 5 grandchildren.  He enjoys playing several musical instruments, woodworking, and hiking-camping.

Dennis Corpuz is a Senior staff in Venture Corporation Limited, headquartered in Singapore with factories located globally in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, America and Europe. Dennis served as Corporate ESD Consultant for the group, achieving ANSI/ESD S20.20 certification for the global factories and supported in-house ESD training programs, in pursuit of operations excellence and talent development.

Prior to joining Venture, he previously teamed up with Pacific Microwave Corporation, Philips Semiconductors, REMEC Broadband Wireless and Nidec Corporation. Earning more than 20 years of engineering experience in electronics manufacturing, RF & microwave assembly & test, HDDA and optoelectronics assembly.

Armed with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Dennis advanced to build his knowledge in Metrology, Cleanroom Management and Equipment Engineering. Dennis is also an iNARTE Certified ESD Engineer.

For leisure, Dennis enjoys fishing, gardening and spends his free time outdoors as a drone pilot and nature photographer.

Dennis Wells is a Reliability/Quality Engineer at MACOM Technology Solutions, a leading provider of high performance analog semiconductor solutions for use in radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave applications headquartered in Lowell, MA. Along with being MACOM’s ESD Control Program Coordinator, he is responsible for qualifying compound semiconductor devices prior to new product release. 

Dennis graduated from Northeastern University, Boston, MA with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and from the University of New Hampshire, Manchester/Durham, NH with a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Outside of work Dennis is an avid scuba diver. He enjoys road and mountain biking. He also is a semi-pro electric bassist.