Certified Professionals

Bernard is the Corporate ESD Program Manager at United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC) and has more than 25 years of experience in the area of ESD control management. He is responsible for the ESD control program at UTAC and was previously also responsible for the ESD control program at the Integrated Circuits Business Division of Hewlett-Packard Singapore. Bernard is an iNARTE certified ESD Engineer and is also an EOS/ESD Association TR53 certified ESD Technician. He has published technical papers at various symposiums organized by the EOS/ESD Association and also participates in the organizing and technical program committees for these symposiums. As a certified professional ESD Program Manager, Bernard is now leading different factories within the UTAC group of companies for the ANSI/ESD S20.20 facility certification.

Besides being active in the area of ESD control, Bernard has also contributed technical papers in the area of failure analysis. He has published technical papers in IEEE sponsored symposiums, ASM International sponsored symposiums, the Semiconductor International journal and the HP Journal. Bernard has also held various committee appointments in the IEEE Singapore Rel/CPMT/ED Chapter, and also in the organizing committee and technical program committee of the IEEE sponsored International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA).

Bernard graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a BS in Electrical Engineering (Distinction and Honors).

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/c/214697d19604405abd4f050df3816d95

Credential ID: https://esdcertification.esda.org/c/ee5bcf00bb9a4d96b8efa8dc141bd048

Works in Micron as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff (SMTS) under Micron Global Quality. The owner of ESD Standards and Program currently chairs the ESD Steering of Micron. He has led Micron into becoming a certified ANSI/ESD S2020 company on all of its entire global Backend Manufacturing sites and develops ESD control program for sensitive memory products.
He has worked with several MNCs and OSATs as Failure Analysis and Reliability manager with the side role as the ESD Champion working on diagnostics , audit and problem solving in ESD for the last 31 years.