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CompanyAbout A.M. Fitzgerald & AssociatesFounded in 2003, A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates provides MEMS product development and engineering services to clients ranging from one-person start-ups to companies in the Fortune 500. A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates is a member of the MEMS Industry Group. Team
Alissa M. Fitzgerald, Founder and Managing MemberDr. Fitzgerald has over 15 years of hands-on engineering experience in MEMS design, fabrication and product development. She has developed over a dozen distinct MEMS devices, such as piezoresistive cantilevers, ultrasound transducers, and infrared imagers. She advises clients on the entire technology development cycle, from business and IP strategy, to initial design and prototyping, all the way through to foundry transfer. She is a recognized expert on reliability of brittle materials and is active in the development of a proprietary MEMS fracture prediction tool. She has previously been employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sigpro, and Sensant Corporation (acquired by Siemens). Dr. Fitzgerald received her bachelor and master degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her doctorate from Stanford University, all in the discipline of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Fitzgerald has numerous journal publications, holds two patents, and is a frequent lecturer at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and local professional group meetings. Dr. Fitzgerald serves on the Governing Council of the MEMS Industry Group. Zaheer Ali, AssociateMr. Ali has several years of experience in applying solid state physics and engineering knowledge to novel device development and fabrication. He has held recent positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Lab for Laser Energetics of the University of Rochester, and has worked on projects at Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Mr. Ali has worked on the development of experimental diagnostics for micro-scale to particle accelerator-scale systems. Mr. Ali has a B.S. in Physics from the University of California Berkeley and a Certificate in Nanotechnology from Columbia University. Dawn Hilken, AssociateMs. Hilken has been in the field of MEMS process development since the early 1990s. She has over 15 years of hands-on experience in the areas of micro and nanoscale lithography, LIGA, E-beam, and SU-8, along with many wet/dry etch processes. She has previously worked for several MEMS companies, such as: Microflow Analytical, EG&G IC Sensors, Onix Microsystems, and Axsun Technologies. Dawn has recently held positions at both Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Brent M. Huigens, AssociateMr. Huigens has a diverse background in microsystems fabrication and characterization and has held recent positions with Johnson & Johnson and Olympus Microsystems America. He has experience in the fabrication of CMOS devices and cantilever architectures, as well as the characterization of micro-actuators. Mr. Huigens has worked with shape memory alloys (SMA) for MEMS applications, test and characterization systems for micromirror devices, and on the mechanical reliability of micro-electrostatic devices. He holds a B.S. in Materials Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Microsystems from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. C.T. Kao, AssociateDr. Kao has been performing analysis, simulation, and design of novel products in the fields of electronic packaging, semiconductor processing equipment, and MEMS devices for more than 10 years. As the main designer of a start-up MEMS company, he and the team successfully developed a MEMS micro-mirror device for a leading-edge display application, and took it from prototype to volume manufacturing with satisfactory reliability and yield rate. He was also previously employed by National Semiconductor and Applied Materials, where he sharpened his knowledge and skill sets in finite element analysis, electronic packaging, semiconductor processes and product design. Dr. Kao received his B.S. from National Taiwan University and M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin, both in Mechanical Engineering. Later he obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has served as a faculty member at a national university in Taiwan for one year and holds one patent. David M. Pierce, AssociateDr. Pierce has a strong foundation in computational mechanics, finite element methods, applied mathematics and the associated programming/software to support work in these areas. He has worked extensively with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) on engineering research. Most recently, he developed a fatigue life prediction methodology for lead-free solder alloy interconnects in electronic packaging working with SNL. He has also worked as an engineering consultant with several companies and as a design engineer and analyst for Rosemount, Inc. in Minnesota. Dr. Pierce received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has numerous journal publications and holds one patent. Carolyn D. White, AssociateCarolyn D. White has a background in mechanics of materials and currently specializes in the design and fabrication of MEMS devices for a wide range of range of applications, which have included magnetic materials, microfluidics, solar, and infrared imaging. She also performs technology strategic analyses, including the evaluation of patent portfolios and acquisition targets, feasibility studies, and cost/performance analysis. She has been employed by Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has numerous publications. Dr. White received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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