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JULY 2021 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 13 Rick Hartley is a PCB design instructor and founder of RHartley Enterprises. He is a PCB designer and design engineer who has spent over 50 years in the electronics industry in a variety of roles. Prior to opening his own consulting firm, Rick was a senior principal engineer with L-3 Avionics Systems. He teaches high-speed design classes at trade shows and conferences around the world. H a p p y H o l d e n i s k now n as the "Father of HDI" and author of e HDI Handbook. Happy was a pioneer in fabri- cation and design processes at Hewlett-Packard in the early 1970s. He retired from H-P aer 28 years; he later served as a senior PCB technologist for Mentor Graph- ics' System Design Division, and CTO for Fox- conn's MIP Division, which manufactured mil- lions of iPhones. Happy is currently a technical editor with I-Connect007. Cherie Litson is the founder of Litson1 Consulting and an instructor with EPTAC and Everett Community College. She is a Master Instructor for the IPC CID and CID+ pro- grams, and she has over 30 years of experience in PCB design. Cherie holds a BSEE. She is also an avid golfer, taking LPGA teams from local to national competitions in the past five years. Lee Ritchey is a PCB design instructor and founder and president of Speeding Edge, a high-speed design consulting firm. He served as program manager for 3Com Corporation, where he was responsible for overseeing the signal integ- rity aspects of hardware design and product packaging for the company´s router, switch, hub and NIC products. Lee is the co-author of Right e First Time, A Practical Handbook on High-Speed PCB and System Design. Carl Schattke is a lead PCB design engineer with a North American automobile manu- facturer, and a PCB design instructor. He previously served as senior hardware engineer in PCB design at Intel. He learned PCB layout by working as an apprentice to his father, hand-taping hundreds of designs. He enjoys discussing PCB design rules, and he's been known to quote the Dalai Lama: "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." Chris Young has over 20 years of experience as an electrical engineer, working predomi- nantly in the avionics/aero- space industry, supplemented by experience in the semicon- ductor and medical fields. He is the owner/ lead engineer of Young Engineering Services. Chris is also a columnist with Milaero007.