Bill Devenish is a long-time design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) advocate with 23 years experience in technology product development. He has been director of engineering for QSI Corp., manager of the mechanical advanced development group at Harris RF Communications, and an R&D manager at Nokia. Bill holds a BS in design engineering from Brigham Young University, an MS in management of science and technology from Oregon Graduate Institute, and a graduate certificate in systems engineering from Florida Institute of Technology. He has been awarded 10 patents and has authored several papers on DFMA, embedded passives, implementing SolidWorks, and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).