Certified Professionals

Tom Terk is a Manufacturing Program Leader at GE Healthcare Global X-ray Detectors in North Greenbush, NY.  He leads the Refurbishment Operations for digital X-Ray detectors produced for various GE products, both medical and non-medical. In addition, he is the site ESD Team Leader and manages projects to expand the scope of refurbishment operations at the site.

Tom has extensive experience in the flat panel display and digital X-Ray detector industries, having served in various technical, process engineering, and supervisory roles at GE Global Research, OIS Optical Imaging Systems, and GE Healthcare.

When off work, Tom enjoys camping, visiting with children and grandchildren, working on his classic car, and making home improvements.

Tom has an A.A.S. in Chemistry from SUNY in Cobleskill, NY, a B.S. in Management from University of Phoenix, and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Tim Jeffries leads the Operations Centralized Process Engineering Group at Harris the Government Communications Systems Division.  He and his staff support the Development and Production Manufacturing Departments. As a 30+ year employee of Harris, Tim’s background includes roles in Production Engineering, Process Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

He is a past recipient of the Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award and the Harris General Manager’s Award.

Outside of work, Tim enjoys spending his time on the water wakeboarding with his wife Lisa and son John.

Tim Maas is active as EMC/ ESD expert for more than 20 years. He currently owns Total ESD solutions, a Dutch based electrostatics consultancy company, which provides training, testing services, instrument calibration and expertise on ESD safe product design and working ESD safe.

Tim has worked for Océ Technologies BV (now known as Canon Production Printing) and ASML Netherlands BV as EMC/ ESD expert. Tim is a member of the Dutch standardization committee affiliated with IEC TC101 Electrostatics and a member of the ESDA since 2018.

Tim graduated in 1997 with a BSc in electrical engineering.

Tim Peterson is the Manufacturing Group Leader for Cameron Health, Inc.  He is responsible for the operations on the manufacturing line while producing subcutaneous implantable defibrillators.  Prior to this role, Tim was a Senior Industrial Engineer, also at Cameron Health, where he was responsible for facility and clean room construction, validation, and maintenance, process improvements and manufacturing engineering support, as well as updating the company ESD procedures and processes.  Tim has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Outside of work, Tim enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, camping, and flying

Tim has been the Engineering Supervisor for NRD Advanced Static Control (NRD, LLC) since 2011.  Along with engineering duties, he is also the Quality Manager, Facilities Supervisor, and IT Supervisor.  He is a veteran of the United States Navy Submarine Force, and holds a BSEE degree from the University of Vermont. Tim has been an ESDA member since 2014.

Outside of work, Tim is father to 3 kids, and enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, scroll saw woodworking, and golf.

Timothy Prass is a Senior Quality Engineer with Raytheon Technical Services Co., LLC. There he is a divisional AS9100 Lead Internal Auditor, Site and Divisional ESD Lead.  He is the acting Administrative Lead of the Raytheon Corporate ESD Council, which is 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.

He earned his B.S.M.E. from Michigan State University, and MBA from Butler University.

Timothy is the working group chair of WG13, Hand Tools; secretary of WG 53, Compliance Verification; a statistics lead for the design and conduct of interlaboratory testing; and a member of the Standards Committee.