Agenda

Jay Skolnik is a licensed professional electrical engineer and is the co-founder and lead engineer/ consultant of Skolnik Technical Training in Albuquerque, NM. With over thirty years of experience in the electronics industry, Jay has developed a multitude of products utilized in different industries, including military, defense, avionics, aerospace, commercial, industrial, medical, automotive, and sports entertainment. As an ESDA certified program manager, Jay teaches ESD mitigation and control for the electronics and energetics specialties. He performs ESD audits to ensure factories and laboratories are following safe ESD control guidelines and procedures. He is also certified by iNARTE and is a certified professional instructor of national instruments (NI). He received his electrical engineering degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Matt Jane is Tesla’s Global ESD Program Manager who has designed, implemented, and maintains ESD controls in a high tech electric vehicle manufacturing environment. He is a member of multiple ESDA standards working groups, committees, and the Board of Directors. His involvement in the ESDA has allowed him to grow both professionally and personally – providing opportunities to work on projects that may not present themselves in his day job and also bringing knowledge back to Tesla to grow internal ESD knowledge and expertise.

John Kinnear is an IBM senior engineer specializing in process & system technology, and facility certification in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20. He has a BS degree from University of Buffalo and a MS degree from Syracuse University. John is well known globally for his technical contributions to national and international standards. He has been the IBM ESD site coordinator for the Poughkeepsie site since 1989. He is past chairman of the IBM inter-divisional technical liaison committee for ESD protection and is an important member of his company’s committee to develop and implement the ESD corporate program for IBM. John has coordinated the testing of large mainframes for compliance to EMC, safety, environmental, shipping, and volatile organic emission standards. He has also been the lead engineer on testing large mainframe systems to EMC emissions and immunity standards for FCC, CE Mark, VCCI, and other national requirements. As a member of EOS/ESD Association, Inc., since 1990, John has served in several standards development committees as well as association management positions. John is the appointed technical adviser to the United States National Committee/IEC technical committee 101, where he represents the United States to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In this position he assisted in the evolution of international ESD standards and supports international adoption of ANSI/ESD S20.20. As chair of the ESDA’s facility certification (ANSI/ESD S20.20) development program, John played major roles in the program’s development and industry launch. In particular, John coordinated the initial development of lead assessor training, ISO registrar certification, and witness audits. John has served in every EOS/ESD Association, Inc. officer’s position, including vice president, senior vice president, and president. He is the past chairman of the EOS/ESD Symposium technical program committee and past general chairman of the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium. For his contributions to EOS/ESD Association, Inc., John was presented with the outstanding contribution award in September 2006.

John Kinnear is an IBM senior engineer specializing in process & system technology, and facility certification in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20. He has a BS degree from University of Buffalo and a MS degree from Syracuse University. John is well known globally for his technical contributions to national and international standards. He has been the IBM ESD site coordinator for the Poughkeepsie site since 1989. He is past chairman of the IBM inter-divisional technical liaison committee for ESD protection and is an important member of his company’s committee to develop and implement the ESD corporate program for IBM. John has coordinated the testing of large mainframes for compliance to EMC, safety, environmental, shipping, and volatile organic emission standards. He has also been the lead engineer on testing large mainframe systems to EMC emissions and immunity standards for FCC, CE Mark, VCCI, and other national requirements. As a member of EOS/ESD Association, Inc., since 1990, John has served in several standards development committees as well as association management positions. John is the appointed technical adviser to the United States National Committee/IEC technical committee 101, where he represents the United States to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In this position he assisted in the evolution of international ESD standards and supports international adoption of ANSI/ESD S20.20. As chair of the ESDA’s facility certification (ANSI/ESD S20.20) development program, John played major roles in the program’s development and industry launch. In particular, John coordinated the initial development of lead assessor training, ISO registrar certification, and witness audits. John has served in every EOS/ESD Association, Inc. officer’s position, including vice president, senior vice president, and president. He is the past chairman of the EOS/ESD Symposium technical program committee and past general chairman of the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium. For his contributions to EOS/ESD Association, Inc., John was presented with the outstanding contribution award in September 2006.

David E. Swenson retired in 2003 after 35 years of service from 3M. While at 3M he had responsibility for new packaging material development and application, training of 3M personnel worldwide and providing application assistance to users of static control products globally with particular emphasis on Asia Pacific and Japan. Dave and his wife Geri established a new company, Affinity Static Control Consulting, L.L.C .in 2003. Dave has been a member of the ESD Association since 1984 and has served in many capacities, including 1997 Symposium General Chair and president of the Association in 1998 and 1999 and again in 2008 and 2009. He was re-elected to the Board of Directors for a 5th term from 2014 to 2016 and is currently appointed to the Board to assist with technical inquiries. Dave was presented with the highest award of the ESD Association, the “Outstanding Contributions Award” in 2002, the Standards Committee “Joel P. Weidendorf Memorial Award” in 2004, the Association “Edward G. Weggeland” Memorial Award in 2014 and the Symposium Committee’s, David Barber, Sr. Memorial award in 2018. He is a member of the Standards Committee, serving several Working Groups and the ANSI/ESD S20.20 Standard Task Team. Dave also serves as Treasurer and Information Liaison of the Texas Chapter of the ESD Association; he is a member of the Electrostatic Society of America, IMAPS, the UK Institute of Physics and is a US Expert to IEC TC101, Electrostatics.

Matt Jane is Tesla’s Global ESD Program Manager who has designed, implemented, and maintains ESD controls in a high tech electric vehicle manufacturing environment. He is a member of multiple ESDA standards working groups, committees, and the Board of Directors. His involvement in the ESDA has allowed him to grow both professionally and personally – providing opportunities to work on projects that may not present themselves in his day job and also bringing knowledge back to Tesla to grow internal ESD knowledge and expertise.

John Kinnear is an IBM senior engineer specializing in process & system technology, and facility certification in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20. He has a BS degree from University of Buffalo and a MS degree from Syracuse University. John is well known globally for his technical contributions to national and international standards. He has been the IBM ESD site coordinator for the Poughkeepsie site since 1989. He is past chairman of the IBM inter-divisional technical liaison committee for ESD protection and is an important member of his company’s committee to develop and implement the ESD corporate program for IBM. John has coordinated the testing of large mainframes for compliance to EMC, safety, environmental, shipping, and volatile organic emission standards. He has also been the lead engineer on testing large mainframe systems to EMC emissions and immunity standards for FCC, CE Mark, VCCI, and other national requirements. As a member of EOS/ESD Association, Inc., since 1990, John has served in several standards development committees as well as association management positions. John is the appointed technical adviser to the United States National Committee/IEC technical committee 101, where he represents the United States to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In this position he assisted in the evolution of international ESD standards and supports international adoption of ANSI/ESD S20.20. As chair of the ESDA’s facility certification (ANSI/ESD S20.20) development program, John played major roles in the program’s development and industry launch. In particular, John coordinated the initial development of lead assessor training, ISO registrar certification, and witness audits. John has served in every EOS/ESD Association, Inc. officer’s position, including vice president, senior vice president, and president. He is the past chairman of the EOS/ESD Symposium technical program committee and past general chairman of the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium. For his contributions to EOS/ESD Association, Inc., John was presented with the outstanding contribution award in September 2006.

Jay Skolnik is a licensed professional electrical engineer and is the co-founder and lead engineer/ consultant of Skolnik Technical Training in Albuquerque, NM. With over thirty years of experience in the electronics industry, Jay has developed a multitude of products utilized in different industries, including military, defense, avionics, aerospace, commercial, industrial, medical, automotive, and sports entertainment. As an ESDA certified program manager, Jay teaches ESD mitigation and control for the electronics and energetics specialties. He performs ESD audits to ensure factories and laboratories are following safe ESD control guidelines and procedures. He is also certified by iNARTE and is a certified professional instructor of national instruments (NI). He received his electrical engineering degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

John Kinnear is an IBM senior engineer specializing in process & system technology, and facility certification in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20. He has a BS degree from University of Buffalo and a MS degree from Syracuse University. John is well known globally for his technical contributions to national and international standards. He has been the IBM ESD site coordinator for the Poughkeepsie site since 1989. He is past chairman of the IBM inter-divisional technical liaison committee for ESD protection and is an important member of his company’s committee to develop and implement the ESD corporate program for IBM. John has coordinated the testing of large mainframes for compliance to EMC, safety, environmental, shipping, and volatile organic emission standards. He has also been the lead engineer on testing large mainframe systems to EMC emissions and immunity standards for FCC, CE Mark, VCCI, and other national requirements. As a member of EOS/ESD Association, Inc., since 1990, John has served in several standards development committees as well as association management positions. John is the appointed technical adviser to the United States National Committee/IEC technical committee 101, where he represents the United States to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In this position he assisted in the evolution of international ESD standards and supports international adoption of ANSI/ESD S20.20. As chair of the ESDA’s facility certification (ANSI/ESD S20.20) development program, John played major roles in the program’s development and industry launch. In particular, John coordinated the initial development of lead assessor training, ISO registrar certification, and witness audits. John has served in every EOS/ESD Association, Inc. officer’s position, including vice president, senior vice president, and president. He is the past chairman of the EOS/ESD Symposium technical program committee and past general chairman of the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium. For his contributions to EOS/ESD Association, Inc., John was presented with the outstanding contribution award in September 2006.

David E. Swenson retired in 2003 after 35 years of service from 3M. While at 3M he had responsibility for new packaging material development and application, training of 3M personnel worldwide and providing application assistance to users of static control products globally with particular emphasis on Asia Pacific and Japan. Dave and his wife Geri established a new company, Affinity Static Control Consulting, L.L.C .in 2003. Dave has been a member of the ESD Association since 1984 and has served in many capacities, including 1997 Symposium General Chair and president of the Association in 1998 and 1999 and again in 2008 and 2009. He was re-elected to the Board of Directors for a 5th term from 2014 to 2016 and is currently appointed to the Board to assist with technical inquiries. Dave was presented with the highest award of the ESD Association, the “Outstanding Contributions Award” in 2002, the Standards Committee “Joel P. Weidendorf Memorial Award” in 2004, the Association “Edward G. Weggeland” Memorial Award in 2014 and the Symposium Committee’s, David Barber, Sr. Memorial award in 2018. He is a member of the Standards Committee, serving several Working Groups and the ANSI/ESD S20.20 Standard Task Team. Dave also serves as Treasurer and Information Liaison of the Texas Chapter of the ESD Association; he is a member of the Electrostatic Society of America, IMAPS, the UK Institute of Physics and is a US Expert to IEC TC101, Electrostatics.

Ted Dangelmayer is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Quality Engineering and Assurance organization at Lucent Technologies in North Andover, MA and is responsible for the ESD control program. He also co-chairs the Lucent ESD Leadership Team. Ted has published a book, ESD Program Management, and is working on the second edition. He has presented papers at the EOS/ESD Symposium and received the Symposium’s Best Paper Award in 1984. He has served as President of the ESD Association, Chair of the Association’s Standards Committee and General Chair of the EOS/ESD Symposium.

Ginger Hansel joined Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector in 1981 as a Test Process/Equipment Engineer to analyze and improve manufacturing operations. She founded and led the manufacturing ESD control team that trained, audited, qualified materials, and established innovative solutions throughout the semiconductor sector. Under her leadership, the team reduced a 40% failure rate in one test operation to almost zero through the targeted introduction of specific ESD control materials and ESD Awareness training. Ginger brought ESD awareness to her other roles as Engineering Section Leader, Technical Training Manager, QA Engineer, Business Metrics Engineer, Data and Document Control Manager, Program Manager and Technical Product Marketing Manager. Ginger retired from Motorola/Freescale in 2004 and became Director of Marketing and ESD Program Management with the consulting group, Dangelmayer Associates. She has published numerous magazine articles and technical papers on effective ESD control programs and awareness training; examples include "The Production Operator: Weak Link or Warrior in the ESD Battle" and "Cost Effective Failure Analysis Method for Detecting Failure Site Associated with Extremely Small Leakage". She has taught seminars, workshops and webinars throughout the world. For over 35 years, Ginger has held leadership positions in the EOS/ESD Association Inc. such as President, Board of Directors, Chair of the Education Business Unit and has served on the Steering, Technical Program, Standards, and other committees. She is currently serving a second term as President Emeritus of the EOS/ESD Association. Ginger initiated the NARTE ESD Certification program in 1992 and is a certified ESD Control Engineer. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Texas ESD Association. Ms. Hansel received a BS in Natural Sciences (Psychology) and a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology, both from the University of Houston. She received her MBA (Executive Option II program) from the University of Texas.

Kathleen Muhonen is currently an ESD engineer at Qorvo in Greensboro, NC. She is involved in ESD on-chip protection for RF and Millimeter wave applications. She is heavily involved in system level testing that helps standardize IED testing of RF components and instrumentation for better ESD characterization of clamps and materials. Previously she was responsible for RF characterization and model support for SOI switches and Gallium Arsenide power amplifiers. She has also done extensive work on developing state of the art harmonic and breakdown characterization system for semiconductors and has improved de-embedding techniques of large-scale modeling structures. Kathleen's previous experience includes assistant professor at Penn State Erie, linearization design for base stations at Hewlett Packard, and power amplifier design at Lockheed Martin and GE Aerospace.
Kathleen is a member of the ESD association and is on all device testing standards committees, including serving as past TLP and HMM workgroup chairs. She has also served on the Board of Directors and is now serving as the education committee chair. Kathleen received her BSEE degree from Michigan Technological University in 91, a MSEE from Syracuse in 94 and a PH.D.EE from Penn State University in 1999.

Matt Jane is Tesla’s Global ESD Program Manager who has designed, implemented, and maintains ESD controls in a high tech electric vehicle manufacturing environment. He is a member of multiple ESDA standards working groups, committees, and the Board of Directors. His involvement in the ESDA has allowed him to grow both professionally and personally – providing opportunities to work on projects that may not present themselves in his day job and also bringing knowledge back to Tesla to grow internal ESD knowledge and expertise.

John Kinnear is an IBM senior engineer specializing in process & system technology, and facility certification in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20. He has a BS degree from University of Buffalo and a MS degree from Syracuse University. John is well known globally for his technical contributions to national and international standards. He has been the IBM ESD site coordinator for the Poughkeepsie site since 1989. He is past chairman of the IBM inter-divisional technical liaison committee for ESD protection and is an important member of his company’s committee to develop and implement the ESD corporate program for IBM. John has coordinated the testing of large mainframes for compliance to EMC, safety, environmental, shipping, and volatile organic emission standards. He has also been the lead engineer on testing large mainframe systems to EMC emissions and immunity standards for FCC, CE Mark, VCCI, and other national requirements. As a member of EOS/ESD Association, Inc., since 1990, John has served in several standards development committees as well as association management positions. John is the appointed technical adviser to the United States National Committee/IEC technical committee 101, where he represents the United States to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In this position he assisted in the evolution of international ESD standards and supports international adoption of ANSI/ESD S20.20. As chair of the ESDA’s facility certification (ANSI/ESD S20.20) development program, John played major roles in the program’s development and industry launch. In particular, John coordinated the initial development of lead assessor training, ISO registrar certification, and witness audits. John has served in every EOS/ESD Association, Inc. officer’s position, including vice president, senior vice president, and president. He is the past chairman of the EOS/ESD Symposium technical program committee and past general chairman of the 2004 EOS/ESD Symposium. For his contributions to EOS/ESD Association, Inc., John was presented with the outstanding contribution award in September 2006.