Symposium on Counterfeit Electronic Parts - West

Symposium on Counterfeit Electronic Parts - West
Biographies

Keynote Speakers

Stanford McCoy is Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He serves as the chief policy advisor to the United States Trade Representative and the Administration agencies on intellectual property and trade issues, and is responsible for developing and implementing United States trade policy on intellectual property. USTR’s office of Intellectual Property and Innovation also coordinates innovation policy trade issues, such as those related to pharmaceuticals and medical technology, and the intersection between intellectual property trade rules and competition policy.

Mark Crawford is a senior analyst in the Office of Technology Evaluation (OTE), Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce. He is a member of a team that produces industrial studies to assess the health of supply chains critical to U.S. national security. Crawford served as a senior analyst with the Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security at Commerce for seven years, prior to joining OTE.

Belva Martin is the Acting Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management Team responsible for portfolio related to protection of the nation’s critical technologies, including export controls; the defense industrial base; and navy shipbuilding programs. She has 30 years of federal service (29 with GAO). Her work has covered a broad spectrum of major management and public policy issues, including government-wide human capital, EEO, and diversity issues.

Speakers

John M. Butler graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering. He began a career in government civil service at Norfolk Naval Shipyard where he worked in the Design Department providing waterfront engineering support for the repair and overhaul of Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carriers, Cruisers and Submarines.In 1985, Mr. Butler transitioned to Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement (SUBMEPP) Activity and developed standardized procedures for the repair, overhaul, monitoring, and testing of various hull, mechanical and electrical systems for all US Navy submarine classes. By 1993, Mr. Butler was promoted to Submarine Safety (SUBSAFE) Program Director and the organization’s first Deep Submergence System Program Director. In August 2000, Mr. Butler accepted a promotion and transferred to NAVSEA, SEA 07T, Submarine Hull, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Management Division, as the propulsion sea water system section head. In January 2003, he became the SEA 07TSUBSAFE section head and in January 2004, assumed the collateral duty of Fly-by-Wire Ship Control System (FBW SCS) Program Director. In 2005, Mr. Butler was promoted to Branch Head (SEA 07T2) for submarine Propulsion and Sea Water Systems section, Electrical and Power Distribution section, and Ship Control Systems and FBW SCS Program section.In February 2006, Mr. Butler was appointed to his current position as Director, Supplier Product Quality (04P) in SEA 04, Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations Directorate.

Bill Cardoso is the founder and President of Creative Electron, a worldwide leader in x-ray inspection instrumentation. Prior to Creative Electron, Dr. Cardoso was the President of Aguila Technologies and Head of Electronic Systems Engineering at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He has over 90 published papers and 3 patents. Dr. Cardoso has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Philip Comer is an electronic engineer for the Defense Microelectronics Activity for the Office of Secretary of Defense where he serves as the counterfeit avoidance officer, an IC digital design engineer, and a system architect for DMEA's organic projects.He has written counterfeit avoidance policies for the military and is a member of the FBI anti-counterfeit working group Philip received his BSEE from California Polytechnics State University San Luis Obispo (2004) and his MBA from California State University Sacramento (2008) where his masters project was on cost efficient security from counterfeit parts for high tech facilities.

Diganta Das, Ph. D. is a member of the research staff at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering. His expertise is in reliability, environmental and operational ratings of electronic parts, uprating, electronic part reprocessing, counterfeit electronics, technology trends in the electronic parts and parts selection and management methodologies. He performs benchmarking processes and organizations of electronics companies for parts selection and management and reliability practices. Dr. Das has published more than 50 articles on these subjects, and presented his research at international conferences and workshops. He had been the technical editor for two IEEE standards and is vice chairman of IEEE Reliability Society Standard Board coordinating two additional standards. He is an editorial board member for the journal Microelectronics Reliability and Circuit World. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of IEEE and IMAPS.

Dan DiMase is in Quality Control at Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. providing expertise as a counterfeit parts control specialist. He assists organizations create policies and procedures to mitigate counterfeiting. He works on the NASA Contract Assurance Services team assisting NASA centers become compliant to the AS5553 standard for mitigating counterfeit EEE parts and works for Honeywell Aerospace in their counterfeit parts working group. Mr. DiMase is an active participant in SAE International’s G-19 Counterfeit Electronic Parts Document Development group. He is chairing the Distributor Process Rating and the Test & Inspection Matrix committees and actively participates on the Counterfeit Electronic Parts standard development for distributors. He has also been active in additional industry organizations and committees, including the Aerospace Industry Association’s Counterfeit Parts IPT.

Louis P. Feuchtbaum is Special Counsel at Sideman & Bancroft, located in San Francisco. Mr Feuchtbaum’s practice is focused on white collar criminal defense, protecting intellectual property rights, and complex civil litigation. In addition to the more traditional aspects of criminal defense, Mr. Feuchtbaum represents corporate victims of counterfeiting and other fraud schemes by developing prosecutable cases with the objectives of deterring exploitation and obtaining restitution for clients’ loses. A former Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx, Mr. Feuchtbaum specialized in investigating and prosecuting organized crime and official corruption cases. He oversaw several long-term investigations involving electronic surveillance that targeted money laundering, fraud, and extortion. Mr. Feuchtbaum is a former Naval Officer who has served in combat.

Sharon Flank, Ph. D. founded InfraTrac in 2006, bringing to market anti-counterfeiting technology developed at the University of Maryland and extending it beyond pharmaceuticals. Dr. Flank began her career commercializing advanced technologies, including search engines and media applications. She rose to Chief Technology Officer at eMotion, leading a team of 44 engineers. At DataStrategy, Dr. Flank nurtured growing companies in knowledge management, bioinformatics, media and healthcare. Her e-learning consulting included developing an on-line chemistry course for a major textbook publisher. She holds seven patents, with another six pending, and has authored over 40 papers and presentations. She earned her A.B. from Cornell and her Ph.D. from Harvard.

Daniel Hartgerink earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989. He was employed by General Electric, where he built and tested Space Shuttle flight hardware. Dan Joined NASA as a civil servant in 1992. Mr. Hartgerink was the manager of the International Space Station Electronic parts program and project manager of a joint venture between NASA and the Russian Space Agency. In 1998 Dan became manager of the W. David Beverly Receiving Inspection Test Facility (RITF) and works continuously to expand the lab's capability and customer base. Mr. Hartgerink is a recognized authority at the Johnson Space Center for the failure analysis of electronic parts and assemblies.

Randy Kong Ph. D. has been an electronics reliability specialist for over 15 years. He was responsible for establishing a number of reliability programs and teams at HP and Microsoft, contributing to development and implementation of effective reliability methodologies in product design and manufacture. He is currently the Asia Director and Senior Member of Technical Staff with DfR Solutions (www.dfrsolutions.com ), where he works with clients in U.S. and Asia in identifying, assessing and mitigating electronics reliability risks across product design, manufacture and deployment lifecycle. In addition to system reliability, his particular focus includes electronics component reliability, level 1-2 packaging design and manufacture quality/reliability and supplier qualification.

Myeong-ku (Michael) Lee Ph. D. is currently a member of the IPR team, Compliance and Facilitation Directorat with the World Customs Organization (WCO). Prior to joining the WCO, Myeong-ku was a senior investigating officer for the Bureau of Investigation, Korea Customs Services. He also worked for Post-Audit Division as a Deputy Director, Bureau of Post-Audit Clearance. He published the book “Customs Policy and Customs Act” in 2007. He has responsibility for IPR Customer Enforcement Network, including the electronic appliances sector at the WCO. He is an IPR analyst for review of the global trend, routing, and concealment method.

Huda Midani comes to Schreiner ProSecure from the Authentication Product Surety and Supply Chain Integrity Industry. During her career, Huda has been instrumental in the development of products, programs, services and standards around product authentication and field monitoring capabilities. The majority of her career has been spent in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sector, where she has worked for Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, focusing on launching products internationally, managing their supply chains and product packaging processes and systems. Consequently, this experience was instrumental in working with other Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to support their Product Surety and Supply Chain Integrity programs. In joining the Schreiner Group, a global leader in innovative label technologies, her scope has broadened to include the electronics, aeronautical, automotive, government documents as well as consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnical products. She heads up the Business Development role for the America’s out of the Schreiner US Headquarters located in Blauvelt, New York.

Richard Nelson is a partner at Sideman & Bancroft LLP, located in San Francisco. Mr. Nelson specializes in litigation, focusing on white color criminal defense and complex commercial cases. He represents companies in trademark and copyright disputes, including working with companies to bring criminal counterfeit cases to law enforcement and prosecutors for investigation and potential criminal prosecution.Mr. Nelson is the current co-chair of the Computer Crime, Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Committee. Prior to joining Sideman & Bancroft, Mr. Nelson was a litigation partner with Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. From 1994 – 1999, Mr. Nelson was an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., where he primarily handled criminal prosecution of political corruption and white collar crimes. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University (1989) and his B.A. cum laude, from Santa Clara University (1981). Following law school, he clerked with Judge Kenneth Ripple of the United States Court of Appeal for the Seventh Circuit.

Sydney Pope joined the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense in 2005 as a technical and business expert in industrial affairs. He is principal industry analyst for all military land systems, including soldier body armor and ground vehicles. He is the policy lead for the Department’s implementation of the Defense Production Act and is the DoD program manager for the Defense Priorities and Allocation System. He also industrial policy lead for preserving access to trusted, reliable and sustainable electronic hardware and systems. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Pope was with the Defense Contract Management Agency where he held several leadership positions over fourteen-years including as that Agency’s Director of Contract Technical Operations and as the Deputy Commander for the largest contract management field office.

Fred Schipp is an electrical engineer within the Missile Defense Agency Quality and Safety Organization’s Parts and Materials Advisory Group. Fred has worked as a component engineer within the US Government for 15 years and with an automotive contract manufacturer for 12 years. He has focused much of his efforts the past three years in developing robust anti-counterfeit procedures within MDA. This effort has taken Fred to over 40 independent distributors and several MDA contractors, and has resulted in his participation in several anti-counterfeiting task groups, including SAE G-19 development of AS5553 and AS6081.

Thomas Sharpe is the Vice President of SMT Corporation, founded in 1995 and located in Sandy Hook Connecticut. In addition to being a long-time member of ERAI, Tom is the current Vice President of IDEA where he has served continuously on the Board of Directors since the year of it’s formation in 2003. Tom is an associate member of Aerospace Industry Association’s Counterfeit Parts IPT, and a member of SAE International’s G-19 committee that is currently developing the new Independent Distributor AS6081 certification standard. Tom’s presentations serve to educate all sectors of the electronics industry about the growing dangers of counterfeits in today’s market, and best practices to detect and mitigate those dangers.

Bhanu Sood is the Director of the Test Services and Failure Analysis (TSFA) Laboratory at the University of Maryland's Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE). He holds Masters Degrees in Advance Materials Processing and Materials Science, and a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research areas include root cause failure analysis techniques, materials characterization, electronic parts authentication strategies and failure mechanisms in printed circuit board (PCB) materials. Prior to joining CALCE in 2005 Mr. Sood worked at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the areas of embedded electronics, micropower sources, Laser assisted micro-fabrication and, characterization of electrically conductive polymeric formulations. His technical publications include papers on failure site isolation techniques, PCB materials, embedded electronics, energy storage systems and instrumentation for mechanical studies. Mr. Sood has taught numerous industry courses in the areas of electronics reliability, root cause failure analysis techniques and materials characterization tools.

Timothy Trainer established the Global IP Strategy Center, P.C., in 2005 (www.globalipsc.com). He has focused on intellectual property enforcement and policy issues for 20 years. His IPR experience includes government service with the U.S. Customs Service (now CBP), Intellectual Property Rights Branch, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Office of Legislative and International Affairs. In the government, he participated in bilateral IPR consultations and negotiations with China, Thailand and other governments. In the private sector, Mr. Trainer has worked at a law firm and headed the Washington, DC-based International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition before establishing his current consulting firm. He has delivered IPR presentations and conducted training in approximately 50 countries. Mr. Trainer has also testified before US Congressional committees and represented the US at the World Intellectual Property Organization. While President of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, he was involved with INTERPOL’s IP Crime Action Group and also co-chaired the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s IP Working Group. Recently, he has advised clients on IPR enforcement matters in China and works with clients on improving US IPR legislation. Mr. Trainer teaches as an adjunct law professor at American University and has written and published numerous IPR related articles and books. Since 2006, he has co-authored Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Across Borders, an annually updated and published book by Thomson West. Regarding IPR public awareness, he has developed an online IPR awareness tool (www.galaxysystemsinc.com).

James Williams Ph.D. is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Polyonics, Inc. He received his A.B from the University of the South, Sewanee, TN, his M.B.A from Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and his Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Panelists

Bob Bodemuller is currently the Project Mission Assurance Manager for Ball Aerospace & technologies Corp. He is responsible for industry engagement activities, including implementing the site counterfeit parts program based on the SAE AS5553 standard. His background includes more than 40 years of mission assurance and engineering experience in the aerospace and defense industry. He holds a six sigma black certification and participates with several aerospace industry groups including the SAE G-19 Committee for Counterfeit Electronic Parts, the Nadcap organization as member of the Nadcap Management Council, the NASA Joint Audit and Planning Committee (JAPC) and the AAQG (Americas Aerospace Quality Group) through the Defense and Space Forums. He is currently serving as the Auditing chair of the ASQ Aviation and Space division and as an ASQ Senior member has participated as a judge in the ASQ International Team Excellence process for four years.

Robin B. Gray Jr. joined the National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA) in September 1994 as Executive Vice President and CEO. He brings to this industry leadership position more than 15 years in electronic distribution and 30 years of association management experience. He is a frequent speaker at electronics industry and association events on topics about distribution trends and developments, e-commerce, IP piracy and counterfeiting, technology trends and legal issues.Prior to joining NEDA, Robin worked for the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) in Washington, D.C. Starting as ASTA’s Associate General Counsel in 1983, he served in a number of positions within ASTA, including General Counsel and Acting President.Robin’s extensive association experience includes employment as General Counsel and Legislative Analyst in Washington, D.C., for two other associations.He currently is serving, or has served, in numerous capacities in various professional, civic and sports organizations, including past president of the Georgia Society of Association Executives.Robin received his undergraduate degree in political science from Davidson College in North Carolina, and his law degree from the University of Georgia.

Karin L. Jarman began her career with the FBI in 1997, as a Special Agent working domestic and international organized crime investigations in San Diego, California. These investigations targeted groups involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, stolen property, counterfeiting, insurance fraud, credit card fraud, extortion, arson, prostitution, alien smuggling, murder, and public corruption. In 2007, she was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent and transferred to FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, where she was asssigned to national security matters. In August 2009, she transferred to the newly formed Intellectual Property Rights Unit (IPRU) which is located at the National Intellectual Property Rights Center in Arlington, Virginia. IPRU oversees all Intellectual Property Rights matters for the FBI.

Lisa Maestas is an accomplished technology professional who has made a significant impact in her field of expertise and on others. After graduating from New Mexico State University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration focused on business computer systems, Lisa began her career at Texas Instruments (TI) as a Software Analyst. Today, Lisa is the Anti-Counterfeit Program Manager for Texas Instruments where she has responsibility for the global management of TI’s Anti-Counterfeit efforts. In this role, Lisa participates in the Semiconductor Industry Association’s Anti-Counterfeit Task force.

Erin Michaels graduated from Penn State, earning a Masters in Forensic Science Degree from George Washington University, then worked for two years as an emergency planner for a local government public health department. Erin then spent the past five years as a special agent for NCIS, involved in investigating procurement fraud for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Erin has specialized training and experience pertaining to environmental crimes investigations and product substitution (counterfeit parts) investigations.

William J. Strauch has 31 years of white collar crime experience and has been with DCIS, the investigative arm of the Department of Defense since 1989 and is currently serving as Acting Program Manager for Undercover Investigations. SA Strauch has worked a wide variety of investigations including product substitution, counter-proliferation and national security cases, health care fraud, environmental crime, and other fraud cases. SA Strauch has a BA in Sociology from the Ohio State University (1978) and a MA in Political Science and Public Administration from Ohio University (1997).

Edward Tarver is a Senior Special Agent with DHS/ICE assigned to the Houston office of Investigations. SA Tarver has been a Special Agent with Customs and ICE for over twenty three years and prior to that he was a Louisiana State Police officer for sixteen years. SA Tarver manages a special investigative group that focuses on Intellectual Property Rights violations and has been responsible for over 100 arrests and $170 million in seizures, conducting the first joint US China investigations.

Corbin Wickman is a Senior Special Agent in DHS/ICE. He has five years of experience conducting IPR investigations and is assigned to the Houston office. He has successfully prosecuted two investigations involving counterfeit Cisco parts. Prior to joining ICE, he was an auditor and financial accountant for seven years at KPMG LLP and Kaiser Aluminum Corp.