Dan has been a Friends board member since inception, also its Vice President, and Director of the Cyber Café. He and his wife Racheal have lived in San Clemente since 1998 and he has been in Southern California since 1981when he moved to California from the Washington D C area to eventually take on the position of Vice President Sales and Marketing of Thiokol/Dynachem. By 1991 he was president of Morton Electronic Materials (MEM or Dynachem), a $240 million division of Morton International, Inc, and a group vice president of the parent company Morton International until its acquisition by Rohm and Haas and then Dow/Dupont in 1999.
Dan is an IEEE certified electronic manufacturing engineer, has done post graduate work at USC in International Marketing and has various computer certifications by Microsoft and CompTia. Dan has authored over 150 published articles and has presented papers at various high technology industry events He has organized and hosted various seminars for SCORE. Dan is well known in the PWB and electronics industry. He has been a member of IPC since 1968, has received its prestigious Chairman’s award and was presented with the IPC’s special achievement award in 1994 and its Public Policy Champion award in June 2000. He was the founding chair of the IPC supplier’s council and championed the founding of IPC Apex/Expo. He was chair of the IPC Government Relations Committee for over ten years and sat on the board of directors of the California Circuits Association. In 2009 Dan was named to the IPC Hall of Fame. He has been active in charitable organizations in Orange County including chair of the United Way leadership effort and underwriting chair for the Orange County ACS Cattle Baron’s Ball.
Dan presently is semi-retired but still has a few active clients for his FeinLine Associates consulting group. He plays bass with the local country/rock group, the No Pressure Band and he builds and overclocks computers as a hobby. He has four Sons and four Granddaughters.
Dan has been a Friends board member since inception, also its Vice President, and Director of the Cyber Café. He and his wife Racheal have lived in San Clemente since 1998 and he has been in Southern California since 1981when he moved to California from the Washington D C area to eventually take on the position of Vice President Sales and Marketing of Thiokol/Dynachem. By 1991 he was president of Morton Electronic Materials (MEM or Dynachem), a $240 million division of Morton International, Inc, and a group vice president of the parent company Morton International until its acquisition by Rohm and Haas and then Dow/Dupont in 1999.
Dan is an IEEE certified electronic manufacturing engineer, has done post graduate work at USC in International Marketing and has various computer certifications by Microsoft and CompTia. Dan has authored over 150 published articles and has presented papers at various high technology industry events He has organized and hosted various seminars for SCORE. Dan is well known in the PWB and electronics industry. He has been a member of IPC since 1968, has received its prestigious Chairman’s award and was presented with the IPC’s special achievement award in 1994 and its Public Policy Champion award in June 2000. He was the founding chair of the IPC supplier’s council and championed the founding of IPC Apex/Expo. He was chair of the IPC Government Relations Committee for over ten years and sat on the board of directors of the California Circuits Association. In 2009 Dan was named to the IPC Hall of Fame. He has been active in charitable organizations in Orange County including chair of the United Way leadership effort and underwriting chair for the Orange County ACS Cattle Baron’s Ball.
Dan presently is semi-retired but still has a few active clients for his FeinLine Associates consulting group. He plays bass with the local country/rock group, the No Pressure Band and he builds and overclocks computers as a hobby. He has four Sons and four Granddaughters.
