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EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Lead-Free Electronics Manufacturing, Expert ConsultantExpertise in SMT electronic packaging interconnection and assembly manufacturing as a pioneer and major contributor since its inception. This consultant has provided hands-on solutions to challenging design, production and reliability issues, as well as served as an advisor to the U.S. government and OEM/EMS companies worldwide. Engagements cover a wide spectrum of capacities ranging from U.S. Department of Defense F-22 Project and commercial electronics manufacturing to improving production yield and product reliability to assessing future technologies. This consultant has also served as an expert witness for product liability, intellectual property, patent infringement issues.
This KKAI consultant is a world-class expert and author on topics including implementing environment-friendly electronics - lead-free manufacturing, environment-friendly electronics: lead-free technology, modern solder technology for competitive electronics manufacturing, IC ball grid array and fine pitch peripheral interconnections, solder paste for electronic packaging: technology and applications for surface mount, hybrid circuits, and component manufacturing, electronic packaging: technology and applications for surface mount, hybrid circuits, and IC component manufacturing.
Additionally, this consultant is a prolific author and speaker on education, workforce, and social and business issues. Topics addressed include leadership, preparation for new millennium-education, technology and workforce, education in science and engineering, modern manufacturing workforce, Asia's road to economic recovery, accelerated tax depreciation for high-tech manufacturing, virtual corporations, the modern woman, women in education, technology and workforce, building trade and relations with china, international trade and trade promotion authority, outsourcing or not and to what extent, changes and coping with changes, welcoming the digital economy, globalization-technology, trade, and workforce
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Electronics, Legal, Manufacturing, Research, Technology
EDUCATION
Harvard Business School, Executive Program
Columbia University - Business School Executive Program
Advanced Management Courses, Leadership Programs
Corporate Governance Programs
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
M.A., Chemistry, Columbia University
M.S., Liquid Crystal Science, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
D Sc. (honorary), Science , Ohio University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.
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Providing expertise in materials science and engineering, SMT electronic packaging interconnection and assembly manufacturing, lead-free electronics manufacturing, electronics industry technology and manufacturing, product liability expert testimony, intellectual property and patent infringement expert testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
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Founder & President, Electronics technology and manufacturing firm
Invited Distinguished Adj. Professor, Engineering School, Case Western Reserve University
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Member, Board of Trustees
Columnist and Advisory Board Member, SMT Magazine - PennWell Publications Company
President/CEO, International Electronic Materials Corp.
Chairman-Business/Marketing Taskforce, Hanson PLC. (SCM Corp.)
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Also served as Chairman-Manufacturing Taskforce and Director of Technology
Exploratory Program Leader, Sherwin Williams Company
Director of Research, Lockheed Martin Corporation (Martin Marietta Corp.)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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This consultant has served on the Board of NYSE Fortune 500 companies, and various civic and university boards, and has also served on various boards and committees of government and universities and civic organizations, including U.S. Commerce Department's Export Council and Advanced Technology Program, National Academies' Diversity Forum and National Laboratories Assessment Panel, NASA, Department of Defense's Globalization Committee and Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies Committee, Council on World Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, among others. This consultant has served as a reviewer for U.S. government programs and for numerous publications and research institutions.
Government-related program involvement has included:
U.S. Department of Defense/National Research Council - Globalization Committee
U.S. Department of Defense/National Research Council - Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies Committee
National Research Council/National Academies - National Laboratories Evaluation Panel
National Research Council/National Academy of Engineering - Diversity Forum
National Research Council/National Academies - Reviewer - Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research career
Member - U. S. Commerce Department District Export Council
Reviewer - NIST Advanced Technology Program
Business Review Board - NIST Advanced Technology Program
Business reviewer - NASA Small Business Program
Panel - NIST Laboratories Assessment
Advisor/consultant - DoD programs (F-22)
Advisor/consultant - (U.S. Army Research)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Honorary Doctoral Degree, Ohio University
Kent Van Horn Distinguished Alumni Award, Case Western Reserve University
Special Achievement Award, Kent State University
Distinguished Alumni Award, ChengKung University
Inducted to WIT International Hall of Fame (Women in Technology)
Elected to Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
Elected Fellow of ASM, International
Featured in "Women in Technology", American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Featured in "Gallery of Women Engineers", NAE
Featured in "Role Models for Women in Engineering, Technology", WEPAN
Profiled in "American Ceramic Society" Journal
Profiled in "American Metal Society" Journal
Received Founder's Award, Surface Mount technology Association
Received the Women of Achievement Award from YWCA
Received US Congressional Certificates of Recognition and Achievement
Received Ohio Senate Resolutions for recognizing special achievements
Honoree of Sweden Production Research Institute (Sweden)
Honoree of China's Ambassador & Consul General USA (China)
Honoree of Taiwan Science & Technology Council (Taiwan)
Honoree of Japan Electronics Production Conference (Japan)
Featured in Cleveland Crain's Business magazine-"Technology Leaders"
R&D Stars-to-Watch (Industry Week)
One of ten featured in "Road to Scientific Success - Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers"
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
International Microelectronics & Packaging Society
American Chemical Society
American Ceramic Society
American Metals Society
Surface Mount Technology Association
IPC
American Association of University Women
National Association of Corporate Directors
PUBLICATIONS
This consultant holds numerous patents and is the author of over 300 publications including sole authorship of several internationally-utilized textbooks. Books, columns, and publications by this consultant have been widely cited in the industry worldwide. Over the years, this consultant has taught over 25,000 professionals, researchers and engineers in professional advancement courses, focusing on disseminating new technologies and providing advancement education to the workforce. This consultant is a popular keynote speaker and featured speaker at national and international events.
Comments by industry book reviewers' include:
"An impressive, unparalleled reference for this critical manufacturing technology - a must for all involved in design, production, quality control and decision-making management…
"[This consultant's] magisterial volume on lead-free electronics manufacturing ... comprehensively covers every aspect of the problem, from the business, technical, and legal underpinnings, to the multitude of possible solutions and the myriad of unintended consequences, whose social, political, and economic costs have yet to be estimated…"
"The challenges of lead-free electronics manufacturing are many, and will affect the electronics industry for many years to come. This author's book is an implementation roadmap and an invaluable reference tool to those charged with making these new techniques work on the factory floor. As such, it takes sophisticated theory and applies it in a manner both clear and eminently practical."
"Environmental concerns, specifically Lead free electronics assembly, has risen to the forefront of industry trends today. No other issue occupies so much interest and debate among global electronics manufacturing professionals. As the world's leading authority on this topic, [this consultant] has addressed the entire breadth of electronics issues..."
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