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The pool
of instructors for ReliaSoft's reliability training seminars includes
the creators of ReliaSoft software packages, invited experts, academics
and industry practitioners. This list presents the regular instructors
at ReliaSoft's seminars, as well as instructors that offer select
specialized courses on-site. Given the high caliber of our instructors,
you can be assured of receiving expert step-by-step instruction
as well as the latest theoretical and practical knowledge.
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[Instructors are listed in alphabetical order]
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Hugh W. Broome
Associate Professor, Department of
Engineering Technology, East Tennessee State University
Hugh Broome is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Engineering Technology at East Tennessee State University.
He has an M.A. in Mathematics from East Tennessee State
University and an M.S. in Reliability Engineering from the
University of Arizona. He has over thirty years of experience
in teaching electronics and manufacturing courses as well
as courses in SPC, quality and reliability engineering and
operations research. He is both a Certified Quality Engineer
(CQE) and a Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE). He is
the author of Reliability and Risk Management: The American
Society for Quality’s (ASQ) Foundations in Quality (Learning
Series), published by The Holmes Corporation, Minneapolis,
MN, and is a senior member of the American Society for Quality
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Carl S. Carlson
Senior Reliability Engineer, ReliaSoft
Corporation
Carl Carlson is a consultant and instructor in the areas
of FMEA, reliability program planning and other reliability
engineering and management disciplines. He has 20 years
experience in reliability engineering and management positions
at General Motors, most recently Senior Manager for the
Advanced Reliability Group. His responsibilities included
Design FMEAs for North American operations, developing and
implementing advanced reliability methods to achieve/demonstrate
reliability requirements and managing teams of reliability
engineers. Previous to General Motors, he worked as a Research
and Development Engineer for Litton Systems, Inertial Navigation
Division. Mr. Carlson co-chaired the cross-industry team
to develop the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J1739
for Design/Process/Machinery FMEA and participated in the
development of the SAE JA 1000/1 Reliability Program
Standard Implementation Guide. He has also chaired technical
sessions for the Reliability Track of the Annual SAE Reliability,
Maintainability, Supportability and Logistics (RMSL) Symposium,
was a four-year member of the Reliability and Maintainability
Symposium (RAMS) Advisory Board and served for five years
as Vice Chair for the SAE's G-11 Reliability Division. Mr.
Carlson holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Michigan and completed the Reliability Engineering
sequence from the University of Maryland's Masters in Reliability
Engineering program. He is an ASQ Certified Reliability
Engineer. |
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Larry H. Crow
Consultant
Dr. Larry H. Crow is an independent consultant as well as
an instructor and consultant for ReliaSoft Corporation in
the areas of reliability growth and repairable system data
analysis. Previously, Dr. Crow served as Vice President,
Reliability and Sustainment Programs at Alion Science and
Technology in Huntsville, Alabama. He held this position
at IIT Research Institute before Alion was established in
2002 by 1600 former IITRI employees. Prior to that, Dr.
Crow was Director, Reliability at General Dynamics Advanced
Technology Systems (formerly Bell Laboratories ATS). Before
joining Bell Laboratories in 1985, Dr. Crow was chief of
the Reliability Methodology Office at the U.S. Army Materiel
Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA). He developed the Crow
(AMSAA) model and the Crow Projection model, which have
been incorporated into U.S. DoD military handbooks as well
as national and international standards and service regulations
on reliability. Dr. Crow chaired the Tri-Service Committee
to develop U.S. MIL-HDBK-189, Reliability Growth Management
and is the principal author of that document. He is also
the principal author of the IEC 61164, Reliability Growth-Statistical
Tests and Estimation Methods. He developed the widely
used N.H.P.P. Power Law model for analyzing repairable systems
reliability, which is featured in the new IEC 61710,
Goodness-of-Fit and Estimation Methods for the Power Law
Model. |
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Duane L. Dietrich
Director of Consulting Services, ReliaSoft Corporation
Dr. Duane L. Dietrich is the Director of ReliaSoft Consulting
Services. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of
Arizona. During his 30 years on the faculty, his teaching
responsibilities were in the areas of statistical quality
control, reliability and engineering statistics. He has
served as a consultant to numerous companies and government
agencies both nationally and internationally. Some of his
more notable clients have been the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy,
IBM, Motorola and Xerox. He is currently an associate
editor for the IEEE Transactions on Reliability and
has served in this capacity for eight years. He was also
a guest co-editor for a special issue of the IEEE Transaction
devoted to reliability and quality. |
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Harry Guo
Research Scientist, ReliaSoft Corporation
Dr. Huairui (Harry) Guo is a research scientist at ReliaSoft
Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Systems & Industrial
Engineering and M.S. in Reliability & Quality engineering;
both from the University of Arizona. He also received his
M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from the National University
of Singapore and B.S. from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
His research and publications cover reliability areas, such
as life data analysis, repairable system modeling and reliability
test planning, and quality areas, such as process monitoring,
analysis of variance and design of experiments. He is involved
in the development of ReliaSoft's Weibull++, ALTA and RGA
software. |
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Lisa Hacker
R&D Project Manager, ReliaSoft Corporation
Lisa Hacker has been involved with the development of all
of ReliaSoft's standard software products since 1998
and has contributed specifications and project
management on various custom development projects for large corporate
clients. She is currently the project lead for ReliaSoft's
FMEA/FMECA and RCM software packages. Ms. Hacker holds two
B.A. degrees from the University of Missouri (Summa Cum
Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.A. in Information Resources
from the University of Arizona.
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William
Haughey
Consultant
Bill Haughey is a
consultant and instructor in the areas of Failure Modes
Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design Review Based on Failure
Modes (DRBFM), Design Review Based on Test Results and
other GD3 methodologies. Bill worked for over 33 years
at General Motors holding multiple manufacturing and
engineering positions, and recently helped Tatsuhiko
Yoshimura globally implement the GD3 methodology at
General Motors. Based on his successful training at GM
locations in Australia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.,
Tatsuhiko Yoshimura considers Mr. Haughey to be a
subject matter expert in the GD3 methodologies,
including DRBFM and DRBTR. He was also the global
process lead for FMEA and Design for Manufacturing and
Assembly (DFM/A) at GM. Mr. Haughey is currently a
member of the SAE FMEA committee to develop the standard
to update J1739. He received his Bachelors degree from
the University of Michigan and Masters from Central
Michigan University. While at GM, he received the
following certifications: Black Belt in GD3 (DRBFM and
DRBTR); Master Design For Manufacturability and Assembly
Engineer; and Certified Internal Auditor. |
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Sharon Honecker
Research Scientist, ReliaSoft
Corporation
Dr. Sharon Honecker
is a Research Scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation. She is
currently playing a key role in the development of
future ReliaSoft software applications. In addition to
teaching various ReliaSoft training courses, she has
instructed engineering courses in several disciplines at
the community college and university levels. Her
research interests include low-cycle fatigue and
mechanical testing, as well as fluid dynamics in
biological systems. Dr. Honecker holds a B.S. in
Engineering and Applied Science from the California
Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from The University of Tulsa and a Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. |
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Hongan Lin
Director, ReliaSoft Asia
Hongan Lin
currently serves as the Director of ReliaSoft Asia,
headquartered in Singapore, where he has been championing
and enabling the use of proper reliability practices in
the Asia Pacific region. He has also been involved in the
development of ReliaSoft’s software and training courses.
Before joining ReliaSoft, Mr. Lin worked at the Defense
Science Organization of Singapore as a Defense Engineer,
and subsequently as a Lecturer at Temasek Polytechnics in
Singapore. He holds a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering. |
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James N. McBride
Consultant
Dr. James McBride spent 28 years at IBM as a Manufacturing,
Supplier Quality and Development Engineer. During that time,
he participated in developing many short courses. He also
conducted more than 200 short courses in Design of Experiments
(DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Basic Statistics
and Reliability Engineering for IBM. Dr. McBride has been
a full time consultant for the past ten years. As a consultant,
he has developed and delivered courses worldwide in FMEA
and Root Cause Failure Analysis in addition to DOE, SPC,
Reliability Analysis and Basic Statistical Methods.
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Adamantios
Mettas
VP Product Development, ReliaSoft Corporation
Adamantios Mettas fills a critical
role in the advancement of ReliaSoft's theoretical research
efforts and formulations in the subjects of Life Data Analysis,
Accelerated Life Testing and System Reliability and Maintainability.
He has played a key role in the development of ReliaSoft's
software including Weibull++, ALTA and BlockSim and has
published numerous papers on various reliability methods.
Mr. Mettas holds an M.S. in Reliability Engineering from
the University of Arizona. |
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Arai Monteforte
Research Scientist, ReliaSoft Corporation
Arai Monteforte is a Research Scientist at ReliaSoft
Corporation. Over the years she has played a key role in
the design and development of ReliaSoft's software,
including extensive involvement in the BlockSim and RENO
product families. Ms. Monteforte holds an M.S. degree in
Reliability and Quality Engineering, a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, all from the
University of Arizona. Her areas of research and
interest include Stochastic Event Simulation, Design of
Experiments (DOE) and System Reliability and
Maintainability Analysis. |
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Udaiappan Muthukumar
Director, ReliaSoft India
Udaiappan Muthukumar serves as Director of ReliaSoft
India, a wholly owned subsidiary of ReliaSoft
Corporation, headquartered in Chennai. Over the past 10
years, Mr. Muthukumar has been involved in promoting
Reliability Engineering and its principles in India and
the surrounding areas. He has provided consultancy and
training services to numerous companies and
organizations in India, the Middle East and Southeast
Asia, including Honeywell, Mahindra and Mahindra, TATA
Motors, Lucas TVS and the Defense Research and
Development Organization Labs. Mr. Muthukumar holds a
Bachelor (Technology) degree from Anna University,
Chennai, India. |
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David H.
Olwell
Senior Lecturer and Department of Systems Engineering Chair
Dr. David Olwell is Associate Professor and Associate Chair
at the Naval Postgraduate School. As a highly respected
authority in the field of reliability, he has presented
seminars to a wide range of agencies and was Director of
Research as well as Director of Mathematical Sciences Center
of Excellence at West Point. In addition, he consults to
the DoD on matters of national defense. Dr. Olwell holds
a Ph.D. in Statistics and an M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics
from the University of Minnesota. |
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David Rock
Vice President/CTO,
ReliaSoft Corporation
David Rock currently serves as the development team
leader for ReliaSoft’s Enterprise Software group, which
includes XFRACAS and Dashboard products along with some
custom enterprise solutions. Enterprise software systems
have been implemented, and are currently maintained, for
several Fortune 100 companies worldwide. He was also the
development team leader for ReliaSoft’s Weibull++
Version 5.0 and ReliaSoft’s RG Version 1.0. Mr. Rock
holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Kent State
University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, with
emphasis in Reliability Engineering, from the University
of Arizona. |
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Pantelis
Vassiliou
President & CEO, ReliaSoft Corporation
Pantelis Vassiliou directs and coordinates
ReliaSoft's R&D efforts to deliver state-of-the-art software
tools for applying reliability engineering concepts and
methodologies. He is the original architect of ReliaSoft's
Weibull++, a renowned expert and lecturer on Reliability
Engineering and ReliaSoft's founder. He is currently spearheading
the development of new technologically advanced products
and services. In addition, he also consults, trains and
lectures on reliability engineering topics to Fortune 1000
companies worldwide. Mr. Vassiliou holds an M.S. in Reliability
Engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Wendai
Wang
Senior Professional Reliability Engineer, General Electric
Corporate Research & Development
Dr. Wendai Wang is a senior professional reliability engineer
at the General Electric Corporate Research & Development
Center. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Shanghai Jiaotong
University and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.
He has more than 15 years teaching and working experience
in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering. He is the
author of over 30 publications and invention disclosures.
His research area includes reliability prediction, reliability
testing, ALT/ADT/HALT/HAST, reliability data analysis, system
reliability and availability modeling and analysis, electronics
reliability, physics of failure, and etc. He has been leading
several innovative "design-for-reliability" and "Six Sigma"
projects in GE. |
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Dennis Wilkins
Retired Hewlett-Packard Senior Reliability Specialist
Dennis Wilkins has over 40 years
of experience in the electronics industry, including
design engineering, project management, manufacturing
management and quality management. While at
Hewlett-Packard Company he coordinated reliability
improvement projects across a number of HP divisions and
was frequently invited to consult and train at HP
divisions worldwide. Mr. Wilkins authored and published
an Engineering Statistics Handbook still used internally
by HP and has taught statistical methods to hundreds of
HP engineers and managers. After retiring from a 33+-year
career at HP, Mr. Wilkins established PVA Reliability
Management, LLC, which provides consulting and training
services to industry and has consulted for companies in
the US, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Wilkins holds an M.S.E.E. from Oregon State University.
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In addition to the above instructors, ReliaSoft seminars often include
presentations from other industry experts and other ReliaSoft R&D
personnel.
Instructors
are listed in alphabetical order and may present one or more sessions,
depending on the course date and location.
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