Vladimir Kraz
Principal

Vladimir Kraz, a principal in BestESD Technical Services, has over 30 years of experience in electronic industry.  He designed some of the best-in-class ESD and EMI instruments - see Tools section on this site (link in new window).  Vladimir has 21 U.S. patents with more patents pending - majority of these patents are related to the best-in-class instrumentation in the industry.  For the list of his patents please visit U.S. Patent Office Site . 

Vladimir wrote numerous articles for technical publications, presented papers at ESD Symposiums both in the U.S. and abroad (see Library) and taught classes and conducted seminars on the subject of ESD, EMI and EMC around the world.

 

Vladimir is a member of several technical associations, including ESD Association and IEEE.  He is a member of ESD Standards (please see ESDA ' profile of Vladimir - link in separate window) participating in Ionization and in Handlers Standards Groups.  Vladimir also co-chairs SEMI Standards ' EMC Task Force, participates in SEMI ESD task force and also is a member of SEMI Standards ' Metrics Committee. 

 

During his career Vladimir designed state-of-the art equipment for wireless and wired communication, medical, industrial control and other industries, and, of course, for ESD, EMI and EMC instrumentation.  Most recently Vladimir worked in 3M on design of ESDrelated instrumentation.  He joined 3M when the company he started, Credence Technologies, was acquired by 3M in 2006.  As a founder of Credence Technologies, he and his wife, Yelena, started it in a typical Silicon Valley fashion from scratch and brought it to the level of world-wide recognition and impecable reputation in the industry.  Instruments designed by Vladimir and manufactured by Credence Technologies and later by 3M are used by companies around the world - from Fortune 500 companies to military and government to the smallest companies.   As a recognized authority in the industry, Vladimir provided consulting on ESD and EMI issues to major companies around the world working on projects for semiconductor FABs and assembly plants, disk drive companies, flat panel display manufacturers, electronics assembly plants, as well as equipment manufacturers. 

 

Vladimir graduated from universities in the former USSR with the Master Degrees in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.  He was born in the former Soviet Union and came to the U.S. over 25 years ago.  He resides in Santa Cruz, California together with his wife Yelena.