{"id":52,"date":"2008-12-01T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esdpros.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2008-12-01T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:50:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/limo.jpg\" alt=\"limo\" title=\"limo\" width=\"401\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-289\" \/><\/p>\n<fieldset style=\"width: 440px; height: 99px;\">\n<legend>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\">Patick McGowan<\/span><br \/>\n<\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/patrick.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Metropolitan State College of Denver.<\/li>\n<li>Director of Engineering and the ESD Auditor\u00a0 for Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Associations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).<\/li>\n<li>Member of the ESD Association.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Successfully completed \u201cBasic ESD Technology,\u201d \u201cFundamentals of ESD and Auditing\u201d\u00a0 and an \u201cElectrostatic Training Seminar\u201d from previous ESDA Board of Directors.<\/li>\n<li>Consulted for <a title=\"Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc.<\/a> since September 10th, 2002 and have been a full-time employee of Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc. in the Engineering department since November 26th, 2003 and have been the Director of Engineering since January 9th, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to working for Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc, Patrick was the Star S3 VISX Excimer Laser Engineer for the Colorado Front Range for the companies, Clear Vision Laser Centers, LVCI, and TLC Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to work as a Laser Engineer, Patrick rose from Electronics assembly to R&amp;D Engineer at Conmed\/Aspen Labs in Centennial Colorado.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_175\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/p8206014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-175\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Testing Equipment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/p8206014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Testing Equipment\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Testing Equipment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Patrick&#8217;s work at Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc. comprises of assisting Master Flooring Mechanics and sometimes serving as flooring mechanic for the installation of ESD flooring systems, gathering PTP and RTG resistance data, environmental conditions, verification of flooring materials, floor grounding technical elements, substrate prep, moisture control readings as per ASTM E-1907 &amp; ASTM F-1869-98 to ultimately create a comprehensive ESD flooring installation certification and technical report.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also amassed a comprehensive and ever growing lab and field ESD auditing kit which he uses to qualify, verify, test, and basically audit each and every product provided by Ground Zero Electrostatics Inc. as part of his QA sector in the ESD Engineering Lab.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/p8206015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-176\" title=\"Testing Equipment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/p8206015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Testing Equipment\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Testing Equipment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He&#8217;s especially proud of his PGA-710 Autoanalysis Kit from Prostat.\u00a0 This device and its accompany software enables him to capture real-time Body Voltage Generation on a PC or Laptop per ANSI\/ESD STM97.2-2006.\u00a0 This is great for qualifying ESD Flooring systems with relation to ESD footwear and would enable us to fine-tune any EPA for optimum ESD performance.\u00a0 It has enabled him to test the ESD performance of our vast array of ESD peripherals as well.\u00a0 This state-of-the-art device serves as a static decay timer and built-in XY-Plotter with A\/D conversion to capture and store static charge potential as it\u2019s happening, as well as the subsequent analysis to add to an already ESD flooring installation or EPA audit.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he has a lot of neat toys and knows how to use them.\u00a0 As a member of the ESD Association, Patrick is constantly referring to set Standards set forth in ANSI\/ESD S20.20-2007 , Standard Test Methods, Standard Practices, ESD Handbook TR 20.20, Advisory Documents, Technical Reports, and other standards where appropriate; such as DoD 4145.26-M, ASTM F-150, JESD 625A (formerly EIA 625), Mil HDBK 263B, EIA-541, DoD STD 2000-1B, NASA, and recommended testing procedures set forth in Prostat instruction manuals for various ESD testing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick is constantly taking ESD related technical calls from the field and helping solve real-world field applications via phone, business trip, email, and now via our website www.esdpros.com.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick is basically here to see the right thing gets done the first time and every time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<fieldset><\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patick McGowan \u00a0 Qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Metropolitan State College of Denver. Director of Engineering and the ESD Auditor\u00a0 for Ground Zero Electrostatics, Inc. Associations: Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Member of the ESD Association. Experience: Successfully completed \u201cBasic ESD Technology,\u201d \u201cFundamentals of ESD and Auditing\u201d\u00a0 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}