ReliaSoft Consultants

This page provides biographical information for some of the expert consultants who are part of the ReliaSoft Consulting Services team. When you contact ReliaSoft to discuss your particular project requirements, we will match your needs against the skills and expertise of our available consultants in order to select an individual (or assemble a team) with the experience necessary to successfully carry out your specific project objectives. Consultants are listed in alphabetical order.

Carl S. Carlson

Carl Carlson is a consultant and instructor in the areas of FMEA, reliability program planning and other reliability engineering and management disciplines. He has 20 years experience in reliability engineering and management positions at General Motors, most recently Senior Manager for the Advanced Reliability Group. His responsibilities included Design FMEAs for North American operations, developing and implementing advanced reliability methods to achieve/demonstrate reliability requirements and managing teams of reliability engineers. Previous to General Motors, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer for Litton Systems, Inertial Navigation Division. Mr. Carlson co-chaired the cross-industry team to develop the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J1739 for Design/Process/Machinery FMEA and participated in the development of the SAE JA 1000/1 Reliability Program Standard Implementation Guide. He has also chaired technical sessions for the Reliability Track of the Annual SAE Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability and Logistics (RMSL) Symposium, was a four-year member of the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) Advisory Board and served for five years as Vice Chair for the SAE's G-11 Reliability Division. Mr. Carlson holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and completed the Reliability Engineering sequence from the University of Maryland's Masters in Reliability Engineering program. He is an ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer.

Larry H. Crow

Dr. Larry H. Crow is an independent consultant as well as an instructor and consultant for ReliaSoft Corporation in the areas of reliability growth and repairable system data analysis. Previously, Dr. Crow served as Vice President, Reliability and Sustainment Programs at Alion Science and Technology in Huntsville, Alabama. He held this position at IIT Research Institute before Alion was established in 2002 by 1600 former IITRI employees. Prior to that, Dr. Crow was Director, Reliability at General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems (formerly Bell Laboratories ATS). Before joining Bell Laboratories in 1985, Dr. Crow was chief of the Reliability Methodology Office at the U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA). He developed the Crow (AMSAA) model and the Crow Projection model, which have been incorporated into U.S. DoD military handbooks as well as national and international standards and service regulations on reliability. Dr. Crow chaired the Tri-Service Committee to develop U.S. MIL-HDBK-189, Reliability Growth Management and is the principal author of that document. He is also the principal author of the IEC 61164, Reliability Growth-Statistical Tests and Estimation Methods. He developed the widely used N.H.P.P. Power Law model for analyzing repairable systems reliability, which is featured in the new IEC 61710, Goodness-of-Fit and Estimation Methods for the Power Law Model.

Duane L. Dietrich

Dr. Duane L. Dietrich is the Director of ReliaSoft Consulting Services. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona. During his 30 years on the faculty, his teaching responsibilities were in the areas of statistical quality control, reliability and engineering statistics. He has served as a consultant to numerous companies and government agencies both nationally and internationally. Some of his more notable clients have been the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, IBM, Motorola and Xerox. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Reliability and has served in this capacity for eight years. He was also a guest co-editor for a special issue of the IEEE Transaction devoted to reliability and quality.

Harry Guo

Dr. Huairui (Harry) Guo is a research scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Systems & Industrial Engineering and M.S. in Reliability & Quality engineering; both from the University of Arizona. He also received his M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from the National University of Singapore and B.S. from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research and publications cover reliability areas, such as life data analysis, repairable system modeling and reliability test planning, and quality areas, such as process monitoring, analysis of variance and design of experiments. He is involved in the development of ReliaSoft's Weibull++, ALTA and RGA software.

William Haughey

Bill Haughey is a consultant and instructor in the areas of Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design Review Based on Failure Modes (DRBFM), Design Review Based on Test Results and other GD3 methodologies. Bill worked for over 33 years at General Motors holding multiple manufacturing and engineering positions, and recently helped Tatsuhiko Yoshimura globally implement the GD3 methodology at General Motors. Based on his successful training at GM locations in Australia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S., Tatsuhiko Yoshimura considers Mr. Haughey to be a subject matter expert in the GD3 methodologies, including DRBFM and DRBTR. He was also the global process lead for FMEA and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM/A) at GM. Mr. Haughey is currently a member of the SAE FMEA committee to develop the standard to update J1739. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and Masters from Central Michigan University. While at GM, he received the following certifications: Black Belt in GD3 (DRBFM and DRBTR); Master Design For Manufacturability and Assembly Engineer; and Certified Internal Auditor.

Sharon Honecker

Dr. Sharon Honecker is a Research Scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation. She is currently playing a key role in the development of future ReliaSoft software applications. In addition to teaching various ReliaSoft training courses, she has instructed engineering courses in several disciplines at the community college and university levels. Her research interests include low-cycle fatigue and mechanical testing, as well as fluid dynamics in biological systems. Dr. Honecker holds a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Tulsa and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Adamantios Mettas

Adamantios Mettas fills a critical role in the advancement of ReliaSoft's theoretical research efforts and formulations in the subjects of Life Data Analysis, Accelerated Life Testing and System Reliability and Maintainability. He has played a key role in the development of ReliaSoft's software including Weibull++, ALTA and BlockSim and has published numerous papers on various reliability methods. Mr. Mettas holds an M.S. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Joseph M. Michalek

Joe Michalek is a consultant and instructor in the areas of FMEA, manufacturing reliability engineering, Reliability Centered Maintenance and manufacturing management disciplines. He has 20 years experience in the manufacturing quality disciplines and 13 years experience in reliability and manufacturing reliability engineering. He has done extensive work to streamline and improve the effectiveness of Process FMEA and Machinery FMEA within General Motors. In addition, his work with the Key Characteristic Designation System (KCDS) has resulted in a global common process for the development and implementation of key characteristics and process control plans for GM. His previous assignment included global management for manufacturing investment that included asset sustainment and other asset investment management activities at GM. Mr. Michalek was a co-chair in the development of the (SAE) J1739 for Design/Process/Machinery FMEA and he participated in the development SAE M-110.2 Reliability and Maintainability Guideline for Manufacturing Machinery and Equipment. Mr. Michalek holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University).

Arai Monteforte

Arai Monteforte is a Research Scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation. Over the years she has played a key role in the design and development of ReliaSoft's software, including extensive involvement in the BlockSim and RENO product families. Ms. Monteforte holds an M.S. degree in Reliability and Quality Engineering, a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, all from the University of Arizona. Her areas of research and interest include Stochastic Event Simulation, Design of Experiments (DOE) and System Reliability and Maintainability Analysis.

Pengying Niu

Pengying Niu is a research scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation. She is currently playing a key role in the development of Lambda Predict. Before joining ReliaSoft, she worked at Texas Instruments where she was involved in IC design and testing. She received her Masters degree from the National University of Singapore and M. E in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona. She has done extensive work on AC/DC and DC/AC converters. Her current research interests include reliability prediction and physics of failure for electronic components such as MOSFET, IGBT and electronic systems.

Dev Raheja

Dev Raheja has been a new product engineering consultant and trainer since in 1981, dedicated to the design assurance technologies such as reliability, maintainability, and system safety for software and hardware. His range of consulting encompasses automotive, telecom, energy, aerospace, defense systems, medical systems, consumer products and high tech electronics. He has done training in several countries including Japan, Australia, Sweden, Singapore, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, India, Brazil, Finland and Norway. Dev is the author of the books Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices and Zen and the Art of Breakthrough Quality. A former manager with General Electric and Booz-Allen & Hamilton, he served as Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland for its PhD program in Reliability Engineering. He is chairman of the IEEE Design for Reliability Committee and a former chairman of the SAE G-11 Committee on Software FMEA. He has won several awards including the Scientific Achievement Award from the System Safety Society and the Austin Bonis Reliability Education Advancement Award from ASQ. He has taught reliability and system safety courses at UCLA, George Washington University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Alabama.

Jerry Roslund

Dr. Jerry Roslund is an instructor and consultant specializing in Design of Experiments (DOE) and Reliability Methods. Prior to retiring from GM, he provided leadership as a GM Technical Fellow for Statistical Methods and Reliability and as a Validation Technical Integration Engineer at GM North America Vehicle Engineering. In 1970 Dr. Roslund joined General Motors at Detroit Diesel Allison and retired from GM in 2007. During his years at General Motors, he developed numerous course textbooks and conducted over 200 seminars providing a wealth of experience and a vast number of case studies. Dr. Roslund is a member of SAE, ASQ and the Society of Reliability Engineers. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska, M.S.M.E. from Cleveland State University and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Oakland University.

Georgios Sarakakis

Georgios Sarakakis is a research scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation, where he is involved with the development of ReliaSoft's software products, publications and consulting projects. His research interests include reliability and quality management and the development of reliability program plans. Mr. Sarakakis received his M.S. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Arizona. He is a Certified Reliability Engineer, Certified Project Management Professional and Certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Prior to joining ReliaSoft, he worked as a Reliability Engineer at Hewlett-Packard.

Aijaz Shaikh

Aijaz Shaikh is a research scientist at ReliaSoft Corporation, where he is involved with the development of ReliaSoft's software products, publications and consulting projects. He is the author of ReliaSoft’s Experiment Design and Analysis Reference and coauthor of the System Analysis Reference. He has also authored several articles on the subjects of design for reliability, life data analysis, accelerated life testing, design of experiments and repairable systems analysis. His research interests include maintainability and availability analysis of industrial systems, design of experiments, multibody dynamics and finite element analysis. Mr. Shaikh holds an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona and is an ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer.

Pantelis Vassiliou

Pantelis Vassiliou founded ReliaSoft in 1992 while in the Ph.D. program in Reliability Engineering at the University of Arizona. Over the past two decades, he has overseen the research and development of new tools, theories and approaches for advancing reliability methodologies, and has personally taught, lectured and/or acted as a consultant for thousands of reliability engineers and hundreds of companies in over forty countries. Even though fully occupied as the chief executive of a multinational corporation, Mr. Vassiliou still sets aside a part of his schedule to teach selected courses and to participate in selected consulting projects, enabling him to share his experience and insight across different industries, while at the same time allowing him to keep his finger on the pulse of developments in the field to which he has devoted his entire professional life. Mr. Vassiliou holds a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an M.S. degree in Reliability from the University of Arizona.

Dennis Wilkins

Dennis Wilkins has over 40 years of experience in the electronics industry, including design engineering, project management, manufacturing management and quality management. While at Hewlett-Packard Company he coordinated reliability improvement projects across a number of HP divisions and was frequently invited to consult and train at HP divisions worldwide. Mr. Wilkins authored and published an Engineering Statistics Handbook still used internally by HP and has taught statistical methods to hundreds of HP engineers and managers. After retiring from a 33+-year career at HP, Mr. Wilkins established PVA Reliability Management, LLC, which provides consulting and training services to industry and has consulted for companies in the US, Europe and Asia. Mr. Wilkins holds an M.S.E.E. from Oregon State University.