Douglas Brooks has a BS/EE and an MS/EE from Stanford and a PhD from the University of Washington. For the last 20 years he has owned a small engineering service firm and written numerous technical articles on Printed Circuit Board Design and Signal Integrity issues, and has published two books on these topics. He has given seminars several times a year all over the US, as well as Moscow, China, Taiwan, Japan, and Canada. His primary focus is on making complex technical issues easily understood by those without advanced degrees.