Board Talk
Phil Zarrow
President and Principal Consultant
ITM Consulting
Phil Zarrow has been involved with PCB fabrication and assembly for more than thirty-five years. His expertise includes the manufacture of equipment for circuit board fabrication and assembly of through-hole and surface mount technologies. In addition to his background in automated assembly and cleaning, Mr. Zarrow is recognized for his expertise in surface mount reflow soldering technology and in the design and implementation…
Jim Hall
Principal SMT Consultant &
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
ITM Consulting
Jim Hall is a Principal Consultant and resident Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with ITM Consulting (Durham, NH). His area of responsibility includes working with OEM's, Contract Assemblers, and Equipment Manufacturers to solve design and assembly problems, optimize facility operations, as well as teaching basic and new technologies in private and public forums throughout the industry,…
Bob Klenke
Principal SMT Consultant
ITM Consulting
Mr. Klenke is ITM's resident wave soldering and selective soldering expert with more than 15 years of direct hands-on experience with selective soldering technology.
With a career in the electronics assembly industry spanning more than thirty years in engineering and marketing with ERSA, Siemens, Plexus and Philips, his expertise includes process optimization, process troubleshooting and value-added defect resolution…
Joe Belmonte
Principal SMT Consultant
ITM Consulting
Joe Belmonte is a Principal Consultant with ITM Consulting (Durham, NH). Joe has been a process engineer and process engineering manager in the electronic manufacturing industry for over 25 years with experience in all aspects of electronic product assembly operations.
Past positions include Manager of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering as well as a Supplier Engineer at Bose Corporation, a Consultant at Cookson Electronics/Speedline…
Ronald C. Lasky, Ph.D. P.E.
Associate SMT Consultant
Lean Six-Sigma Master Blackbelt
ITM Consulting
As one of ITM Consulting’s Lean Six-Sigma expert, Ron has over thirty years experience in electronic and optoelectronic packaging at IBM, Universal Instruments and Cookson Electronics. Ron is currently a Senior Technologist at Indium Corporation and an Instructional Professor at Dartmouth College in addition to being an Associate Consultant with ITM.
He has…
