Brian Slowik

Current

Principal officer, consultant at ProdRegs Compliance Engineering LLC

Past

Sr. Product Regulations Engineer at Intel
Sr. Regulatory Compliance Engineer at LXE
Sr. Product Safety Engineer at ETL Testing Labs (now Intertek Testing Services)

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Education

Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Lawrence Technological University

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Information Technology and Services

Brian Slowik’s Summary

23 years hands-on experience as a sr. product regulations engineer (compliance engineer) covering a broad range of product categories, most recently with Intel covering I.T.E.

Now offering my expert services as a consultant / technical advisor / compliance engineer for domestic and international product regulations and certifications including safety, telecom, wireless, product ecology and electromagnetic compatibility.

Examples of my skills and core services include:
- product safety: UL, IEC, CB, CE, TUV, CCC, CPSC
- product ecology: RoHS, China RoHS, WEEE, REACH
- EMC: FCC, IC, VCCI, KCC, CCC, CISPR
- telecom: ACTA (FCC Part 68), IC, CE
- wireless: FCC, IC, CE
- export compliance: ITAR

Brian Slowik’s Specialties:

• Specialist in product safety certifications for US and int'n'l markets (UL, CE, CB, IEC)
• Specialist in laser safety compliance (FDA/CDRH, IEC 60825)
• Specialist with RoHS IPC 1752 and China RoHS material declarations; REACH; compliance testing for banned & restricted substances; Pb in paint
• Specialist with CE Declarations of Conformity and assembling the regulatory technical file
• Specialist with telecom and wireless certifications
• Specialist with international certifications

Brian Slowik’s Experience

Principal officer, consultant

ProdRegs Compliance Engineering LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Product compliance engineering consulting business. 23 years hands-on experience. Expert in many compliance fields such as product safety, laser safety, EMC, telecom, wireless and product ecology compliance requirements. Available to assist others with their compliance needs and requirements.
Sr. Product Regulations Engineer

Intel

(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

April 2000 — May 2009 (9 years 2 months)

• Sole compliance engineer most recently supporting the Channel Platforms Group doing notebook enabling, driving industry standard chassis, mobile boards and common building block key components to local OEMs worldwide. Previously supported numerous other businesses including the Optical, Desktop, Consumer Electronics and the Reseller Products Groups with products such as optical transceivers, desktop and media center PCs, workstations, motherboards, processors, modems, access points, gateways.
• Hands-on and full responsibility for EMC, product safety, laser safety, telecom and wireless domestic and international certifications for the products supported. Also responsible for product ecology environmental compliance; submissions of FDA / CDRH laser product reports and annual reports; test house/agency submittals; and factory audit inspections.
• Primary individual responsible for RoHS environmental compliance of optical/laser products and previously for motherboard products. Sole issuer of IPC 1752 material declarations for these businesses.
• Authored white papers on product safety caution and warning instructions and markings; U.S. product regulations requirements; international SAR RF human exposure requirements; and telecom certification procedures for the U.S., Canada and the EU.
• Well known and highly regarded as a top performer with broad range of experience across regulatory disciplines and international requirements.
• Core duties include support of product development teams with regulatory plans, schedules, design checklists, test requirements, marking requirements, documentation and translation requirements, issuance of the Declaration of Conformity and materials compliance declarations, and assembling and posting the regulatory compliance file.
• Additional responsibilities include researching new regulations, business unit training, support of factory audits by certifiers and managing and controlling outside service costs.
Sr. Regulatory Compliance Engineer

LXE

(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

October 1996 — March 2000 (3 years 6 months)

• Sole corporate regulatory compliance engineer with complete responsibility for domestic and international certifications for LXE’s products consisting of wireless data terminals and wireless medical equipment carts. Products certified also included intrinsically safe terminals, battery chargers and power supplies.
• Additional duties included sign-off for engineering changes, engineering drawings, and BOM release, which served to control hardware distribution into approved/compliant markets.
Sr. Product Safety Engineer

ETL Testing Labs (now Intertek Testing Services)

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1985 — September 1996 (11 years 3 months)

• First product safety engineer hired to start-up the Atlanta safety testing lab.
• Early responsibilities included equipment acquisition and set-up, training new engineers and technicians, creating test report shells, etc.
• Always the most senior engineer conducting independent equipment evaluations to U.S., Canadian and European standards.
• With extensive breadth of product experience and expert in many product categories, including medical and X-ray equipment.
• Consistently the top revenue generator based on projects completed and billable hours.

Brian Slowik’s Education

Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business

MBA , International business , 1989 — 1992
Lawrence Technological University

BSME , Mechanical engineering , 1977 — 1981