Bio

Linda Woody is a member of the Lockheed Martin Production Technical Excellence staff as a Corporate SME for electronics assembly and soldering processes. She is responsible for new processes, process/equipment development, failure analysis, and serves as a liaison to Lockheed customers. She has been in the electronics industry for 36 years and she received a patent for her work in laser soldering in 2001. Linda is also the current Chair to the Lead free Electronics Risk Management consortia known as the PERM and has been working Lead free issues in the industry since the mid 90’s. She was a member of the Lead free Manhattan project team which developed and published a book on Lead free Best Practices followed by a Technology Roadmap and research gaps analysis. Linda has supported the IPC standardization committees for over 18 years and has published many articles and papers over this time. Linda received the IPC President’s Award in 2013. She continues working to improve and solve the present and future problems facing us as an industry