SMT Consultants

Phil Zarrow - president and principal consultant
Phil co-founded ITM in 1993. He was formerly Director of Technology Development for GSS/Array Technology, a California based contract assembly firm.

Mr. Zarrow has been involved with hybrid and PCB assembly for more than twenty-five years. His expertise includes the manufacture of equipment for circuit board fabrication and assembly of through-hole and surface mount technologies. He was the recipient of the SMTA's Member of Distinction Award (1995) and Founders' Award (2000).
Phil Zarrow biography

Jim Hall - principal consultant
Jim joined ITM in 2000 as Principal Consultant. A pioneer in reflow technology, Jim spent 10 years with Vitronics-Soltec, most recently as Manager of SMT Technology. He has also worked, in various engineering positions, at Dynapert and HTC.

Bringing a wealth of knowledge and background in soldering and thermal technology as well as equipment and process basics, Jim has been a welcome edition. Jim has greatly enhanced ITM's teaching, troubleshooting, equipment & process evaluation, and techno-marketing.
Jim Hall biography

Bob Klenke - principal consultant
Mr. Klenke is the former vice president of sales and marketing for ERSA, with a career in the electronics assembly industry spanning more than 23 years in engineering and marketing with Siemens, Plexus and Philips.

His extensive international expertise includes the development of consultative selling techniques, product positioning strategies and creative marketing plans and advertising campaigns.
Bob Klenke biography

Joe Belmonte - principal consultant
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. He is well-known throughout Asia and SE Asia for both his process work and teaching engagements.

At ITM, Joe's area of responsibility includes working with OEMs, 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. Joe is the co-holder of the United States Patent (US Patent Number 6,572,702) for High Speed Electronic Systems and Methods.
Joe Belmonte biography

Peter Grundy - principal consultant, Sussex England office
Mr. Grundy's carrer spans nearly thirty years, with extensive experience in sales and marketing of capital equipment, including milling systems (KTM), PCB drilling equipment (Excellon Automation) and component placement equipment (Excellon and Siemens).

His area of responsibility includes working with OEM's and Contract Electronic Assemblers to solve assembly problems, optimize facility operations and introduce automation into non-automated arenas. He believes passionately in the need for DFM and DFT in order to increase overall efficiency.
Peter Grundy biography

Ron Lasky - associate consultant
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. Prior to these assignments, he had over thirty years experience in electronic and optoelectronic packaging at IBM, Universal Instruments and Cookson Electronics.

Ron was awarded the Surface Mount Technology Association's Founder's Award in 2003. He has authored or edited five books on science, electronics, and optoelectronics and numerous technical papers and authored articles for Scientific American.
Ron Lasky biography

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