J. Mark Bird – MBA
Senior Consultant
Semiconductor Packaging and Standardization
James Mark Bird is a Senior Consultant with Neokinetics and the CEO of M.Bird and Associates – Semiconductor Assembly, Packaging and Standardization Consultants.
Previously, he was the Senior Director of Technical Marketing and Technology Fellow of Advanced Product Development at Amkor Technology for 19 years. While there he was responsible for managing design, development and qualification of leaded and array packaging technologies including CSP’s. Mr. Bird was also responsible for coordination of the package and process problems interface between the customers and the factories, and coordination of standardization activities. He is experienced in managing new package and process programs into production. He is knowledgeable in packages and technologies such as PDIPs, PLCCs, QFPs, F/L/TQFPs, SOICs, SOJs, TSOPs, TOs, CER-DIPs, P/BGAs, CSPs, and FLIP CHIPs.
Mr. Bird received his MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a BS from Rollins College. He guided semiconductor industry direction on JEDEC’s BOD as its Vice Chairman, as Committee Chairman of JEDEC JC11/IEC 11.07 Packaging Outline Standardization Committee, US Liaison to the joint JEDEC/EIAJ Packaging Outline Standards and Test Methods Working Group, and US Delegate and Chairman of IEC’s TC47 Packaging Outline Committee.