Printed Circuit Engineering Association Board of Directors Nominees, 2025-27

 

Jim Barnes is corporate senior vice president, strategic global sourcing at Generac, leading energy technology company. Prior to that, he spent more than 15 years in management at a publicly traded multinational EMS company. He is an expert in strategic planning, team building, finance, outsourcing, manufacturing operations best practices, supply chain, and business development, with experience in the US, Mexico, and Asia.

Stephen Chavez, CPCD-I is a senior printed circuit engineer with three decades’ experience. Chavez is recognized throughout the industry as a global subject matter expert in PCB design. He is currently a principal technical product marketing manager with Siemens. He coauthored and is an instructor of the PCEA Printed Circuit Engineering Professional curriculum and certification (CPCD). His focus is on continuous improvement for the PCB design profession by serving as chairman of the PCEA.

Tomas Chester, P.Eng., CPCD-I has over a decade of experience designing hardware products through all phases of its lifecycle. He has managed a variety of multifaceted, interdisciplinary projects, from simple interconnect interfaces to complex microprocessors. His creative designs utilize cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, while adhering to strict industry standards and specifications. Chester has extensive experience designing standalone single-sided circuit boards, as well as multi-board assemblies with mechanical integration. Chester is an instructor for Altium and the PCEA CPCD PCB engineering design courses. He has an engineering systems and computing degree from The University of Guelph.

Doug Dixon is an experienced global marketing director with a demonstrated history of working in the electronics industry. skilled in marketing management, analytical skills, equipment and assembly processes, sales operations, sales management, and adhesives. Currently chief marketing officer of 360Circuits, he spent nearly 25 years in global marketing roles at Henkel’s Electronics Materials division, and previously was in product management and applications roles for Universal Instruments and Speedline, and a manufacturing engineer at Raytheon. He has been a PCEA board member since 2022.

Justin Fleming, CPCD, is an electrical engineer with Curtiss-Wright. During his 15+ year career, he has held positions in design, libraries, assembly production and engineering with a variety of market-leading companies including Celestica, FLIR, LiveWire, Harley-Davidson, and Biamp, among others. He holds IPC Advanced Certified Interconnect Designer and PCEA Certified Printed Circuit Designer certifications. He has been a PCEA board member and chapter leader since 2021.

Rick Hartley, a retired senior principal engineer at L-3 Avionics Systems, is principal of RHartley Enterprises, through which he consults and teaches internationally. His focus is on correct design of circuits and PC boards to prevent and/or resolve EMI, noise and signal integrity problems. He has consulted with major corporations in the US and 14 other countries. His career has focused on computers, telecommunications and aircraft avionics, as well as medical, automotive and appliances. He has taught seminars at numerous conferences, including the IEEE EMC Symposium, PCB West, IPC Apex Expo and others. He is on the board of directors of the Printed Circuit Engineering Association, a past member of the Editorial Review Board of Printed Circuit Design magazine and has written numerous technical papers and articles on methods to control noise, EMI and signal integrity. He has been a PCEA board member since 2020.

Matthew Leary has been designing PCBs full-time since 1996. He is the founder and president of Newgrange Design, a Boston-area PCB design service bureau.  His design work has included high-speed, high-voltage, high-power, high pin count, low-level signals, and more. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in physics. He joined the PCEA board in 2024.

Charlene McCauley has over 42 years’ experience as a PCB and mechanical designer, 21 as the founder and manager of two design service bureaus. For the past 13 years, she has led McCauley Design Group, where she has served 50+ customers in the server, semiconductor, space, military aircraft, radar, satellite, medical, simulator, oil field industries. She has eight years’ experience as an adjunct professor at Austin Community College teaching PCB design, electrical/electronic design, and technical drafting. She was employed at Dell for nine years as a senior PCB designer for the rack, tower, blade server, and storage systems, and now provides design services for Dell’s Precision laptop and server systems. She also provides CAD training for her customers’ engineering departments.

Scott McCurdy has 40+ years of printed circuit board manufacturing and design experience. Since 2007, he has been a business development executive at Freedom CAD Services, a leading design service bureau, and was previously president of McCurdy Circuits, a printed circuit board fabricator. He has been a PCEA board member and chapter leader since 2020.

Anaya Vardya is CEO of ASC Sunstone, and has over 35 years’ experience in electronics manufacturing with experiences in the US, Canada and the Far East. He has over a decade of executive management experience in public companies manufacturing PWBs, including Coretec, Merix, and Continental Circuits. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering.
He has been a PCEA board member since 2022.

Susy Webb, CID, is a senior PCB designer with 40 years of experience. Her career includes experience in coastal and oceanographic oil exploration and monitoring equipment, point-to-point microwave network systems, and CPCI and ATX computer motherboards. Webb is a regular speaker at PCB East and PCB West, and international design conferences, and consults for individual companies and PCEA chapters. Her presentations discuss practical implementation of complex engineering concepts into board layout and methods to improve the overall design and flow of printed circuit boards. She is CID certified, a former writer/columnist for PCD&F, a chapter writer for the Printed Circuits Handbook, and one of the judges for the annual TLA competition. Webb is also an active member of the PCEA Executive Board and education committee and is a member and past president of the Houston Chapter of the Designers Council. She has been a PCEA board member since 2020.

Eriko Yamato is a sales and marketing professional with over 15 years of experience in business development and marketing of computer hardware/software, EMC/RF/wireless test products, copper foil, laminates, and electronic components. She is currently OEM business development manager at Panasonic, and previously held marketing executive positions at Oak-Mitsui Technologies and Altamont Technical Services. She has a master’s from Stanford and has been a PCEA board member since 2020.