Certified Professionals

Jeff Porzelt is the ESD site coordinator for Boeing St. Louis, Missouri. Jeff has worked at Boeing since 2015, he has been an avionics technician as well as lab coordinator before taking on the role of site coordinator. Jeff serves as the field representative of the ESD protection program as well as the ESD board focal.

Jeff Porzelt is an alumnus of Lindenwood university (2012). A veteran of the U.S. Navy. He lives in St. Charles MO with his wife and son.  

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/569205868ece4f958713dd0155590743

Jim is a Staff Engineer at QuidelOrtho in Rochester, New York. He is supporting key company objectives with respect to engineering design and project management while mitigating supply continuity concerns.  He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Mentor, and Trainer leading many process improvements. Jim takes great pride in leading the ESD control program within the Manufacturing departments.

Jim received his BSEE degree from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

Outside of work, Jim enjoys playing and watching many different sports and working on home improvement projects.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/1189e7048ca04233a2eafcfb209ba838

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.

John is a Senior Engineer in the Software Development and System Compliance department of IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY. He has been the ESD Site Coordinator for the Poughkeepsie and Kingston IBM sites since 1989. John is the past chairman of the IBM Interdivisional Technical Liaison Committee for ESD Protection and is currently part of the committee to develop and implement the ESD Corporate program for IBM.

John joined the company in 1979 after graduating from the State University of Buffalo, where he received a Bachelor or Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. John continued his education while working for IBM and received his Masters of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in 1986.

John has been a member of the ESD Association since 1990 and has been active in the Standards committees. Currently he is a member of the Technical and Advisory Committee and a member of the Standards Committee. He was appointed to the position of secretary of the ESD Association, elected to the Board of Directors, elected to President of the ESD Association, and was the General Chair of the EOS/ESD Symposium in 2001. 

John was presented with the Joel Weidendorf award for Standards in 2005 and the Outstanding Contribution Award in 2006. 

John has presented several papers both internal to IBM and at external conferences. He participates as an instructor for the Program Management series and has presented tutorials in North America and Asia.

John is the business unit manager of the facility certification program. He has trained assessors from all of our accredited certification bodies.

John is the Chief Delegate to the IEC for Technical Committee 101, Electrostatics. This committee is responsible for developing international standards. As part of this committee, the revision to IEC 61340-5-1 will be technically equivalent to ANSI/ESD S20.20-2007.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/08c44fd2f4684501a3505e218ea0a0f0

Joe Collins is a Manufacturing Test Engineer and ESD Coordinator at General Dynamics Mission Systems in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Joe has provided GDMS with process improvements and solutions in production testing and ESD control since 2012. Prior to this, Joe received his Bachelor in Science Degree in Electrical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, MA.

Besides building his professional career, Joe, with his wife Heather, have been blessed with three children: Daisy, Toriah, and Aben. He enjoys studying history, reading, exploring, hiking the highest peak of each state, and home projects.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/215a2d9a69a5466cb80c0e31deb791b0

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Joe Kane is Senior Principal Engineer for BAE Systems in Endicott, New York, working in process engineering and supplier quality. He holds a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, and completed GE’s Manufacturing Management Program. He contributes to several IPC committees for design and fabrication of printed boards and electronic assemblies.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/e6f550ba39634ddd838d8000328a6584

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Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/c/f42614e45362424fb0b940cdb6ee10de 

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 Standards 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.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/5357b02324c243ada85a9ec95fd61283

Mr. Kim Lau is currently the products Manager for Winifred International Technology Ltd. located in Shanghai ,China, His office is located in Tianjin, This company is solutions provider for micro-contaminations Control at advanced manufacturing Fabs and processes.

He has over 20 years of experience in applied static discharge control，and in ESD auditing, training and providing solutions to customers, He is also responsible for Ionizer products in Company.

Kojo Appiah is a technical lead for the resolution and disposition of Electrically Induced
Physical Damage for both customer return and in-house product qualification failures. As
an ESD & EOS subject matter expert, he has also advised semiconductor chip design
teams on best practices for ESD Protection design and EOS mitigation towards successful
product releases.

Kojo has developed platforms and workstreams to support and resolve customer product
return issues. Previously, he worked on semiconductor device modeling and other
technical analyses in support of Flash Memory product design and development.
Kojo holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/c/a40915768de74ad4a70cc18c21ebbeb8

An Engineering professional with over 15 years of experience in precision engineering, Project planning and Installation and manufacturing sector, leading local teams and oversea teams to deliver the multi million dollars projects on time to the customers such as Samsung, TSMC, Micron and Intel. 

Current assignment and job roles at RF360 GmbH, Qualcomm include SAP Project Manager - Bizz, ESD Control Program Manager and Measurement System Analysis program. I am responsible for initiating and implementing the ESD control program and internal audit program at RF360 GmbH. After achieving the ESD program manager certificate, I am preparing myself to become the ESD Lead Auditor in very near future. 

Graduated from UniSA - University of South Australia (Master of Engineering) and also certified PMP, ACP, RMA and DASSM from Project Management Institute. I am also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt Quality Control Engineer. 

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/da5f83a351d94548be1621b0d6f12a6a

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 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.

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/en/c/8446fd60a2d24c8f8733562b4a37972a

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