Elviz George

About Elviz George

RELIABILITY EXPERT WITH PhD IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Risk Assessment | Problem Solving | Physics-of-Failure | Fatigue Life Modeling | Reliability Testing | Failure Modes and Effects Analysis | Data Analysis | Root Cause Analysis and Fix• Experienced across broad range of technologies and industries including computer, defense, oil and gas, automotive, medical, and consumer electronics.• Provided guidance to VPs and directors on potential risks posed by new technologies intended for next generation products and rapidly diagnosed problems with existing technologies.• Eliminated failure in high-end server product by root causing problem and devising process for vendor to improve quality and reliability.• Determined reliability of next generation high-end server products using accelerated life testing, ensuring problem-free product life-cycles. Ph.D. Dissertation: Damage Estimation in SnAgCu Interconnects under Sequential Loading Conditions.Advisors: Prof. Michael Pecht and Dr. Michael OstermanM.S. Thesis: Thermal Cycling Reliability of Lead-free Solders for High Temperature Applications.Advisors: Prof. Michael Pecht and Dr. Diganta DasSoftware expertise- Weibull++- Minitab- FMEA- CalcePWA- BenchLink- Matlab- ProEngineer- AutoCADExperimental expertise- Environmental Chambers | Agilent and Keithley Data Loggers- X-ray- Optical and Polarized Light Microscopes | Keyence Digital Microscopes- Failure analysis techniques | Cross-sectional analysis- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)| Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscope (EDS)- X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR)- Confocal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (C-SAM)- Shadow Moire- Universal Testing Machine (Shear test and four-point bend)- Thermo-mechanical Material Analyzer- Thermo-mechanical AnalyzerEmail contact: e••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Director, Advanced Quality Engineering Services

   Viasat

   May 2023 — Present

   Lead reliability engineering, quality data analytics and software quality teams at Viasat.

Education

• National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Mechanical Engineering

  2006

• Harvard Business School Online

  CORe Credential of Readiness

  2017 — 2017

• Sarvodaya Vidyalaya

  High School

  2002

• University of Maryland

  Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering

  2010

• University of Maryland

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering

  2015

Skills

• Automotive
• Research
• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Electronics
• Design of Experiments
• Reliability Test
• Physics of Failure
• Ansys
• Integrated Circuits (Ic)
• Reliability Engineering
• Algorithms
• Quality Assurance
• C++
• Mechanical Engineering
• Modeling
• Minitab
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Cad
• Labview
• Embedded Systems
• C
• Finite Element Analysis
• Statistics
• Data Analysis
• Product Design
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Reliability
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Heat Transfer
• Testing
• Semiconductors
• Pro Engineer
• Characterization
• Simulations
• Root Cause Analysis
• Matlab
• Materials Science
• Failure Analysis