James N. (Jim) Arnold, iNEMI Director of Roadmapping
Dr. Arnold is Fellow of the Technical Staff and Director of Motorola's Advanced Technology Center (Schaumburg, IL). He has worked in the electronics industry for more than 25 years. He joined Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector in 1995 and has since held a number of positions related to packaging R&D. He was responsible for developing the strategy and directing the development of the Motorola's chip scale package (CSP) technology, which included the design and development of a fine-pitch BGA package methodology using flip chip technology.
At the beginning of 1999, he developed and managed the Motorola SPS Pb Elimination strategy and established a program to eliminate the use of lead in semiconductor packages. This involved the extensive use of his program management capabilities. In June 1999, he took on a corporate wide role directing and managing a program for the design, development and introduction of products that use environmentally preferred materials and technology. For the past two years, he has led a team in Motorola Labs on Transport Packaging Solutions and a global program management team in the Personal Communications Sector on product cost reductions.
Prior to joining Motorola, Dr. Arnold spent 17 years with the former AT&T Bell Laboratories and AT&T Microelectronics in the areas of system interconnection and integrated circuit packaging. He had responsibilities in the area of integrated circuit packaging, including setting up the development groups at what are now Lucent Technologies' integrated circuit packaging facilities in Singapore and Thailand. He also had the responsibility for directing the manufacturing engineering staff in Singapore; Bangkok, Thailand; and Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Arnold has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles with a major in heat and mass transfer and minors in nuclear engineering and environmental fluid mechanics.
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