Cheryl Tulkoff

Cheryl has over 20 years of experience in electronics manufacturing focusing on failure analysis and reliability. She is passionate about applying her unique background to enable her clients to maximize and accelerate product design and development while saving time, managing resources, and improving customer satisfaction. Throughout her career, Cheryl has had extensive training experience and is a published author and a senior member of both ASQ and IEEE. She views teaching as a two-way process that enables her to impart her knowledge on to others as well as reinforce her own understanding and ability to explain complex concepts through student interaction. A passionate advocate of continued learning, Cheryl has taught electronics workshops that introduced her to fascinating companies, people, and cultures. Cheryl has served as chairman of the IEEE Central Texas WIE and IEEE ASTR sections and is an ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer, an SMTA Speaker of Distinction and serves on ASQ, IPC and iNEMI committees. Cheryl earned her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and is currently a student in the UT Austin Masters of Science in Technology Commercialization (MSTC) program. She was drawn to the MSTC program as an avenue that will allow her to acquire relevant and current business skills which, combined with her technical background, will serve as a springboard enabling her clients to succeed in introducing reliable, blockbuster products tailored to the best market segment. In her free time, Cheryl loves to run! Shes had the good fortune to run everything from 5ks to 100 milers including the Boston Marathon, the Tahoe Triple (three marathons in 3 days) and the nonstop Rocky Raccoon 100 miler. She also enjoys travel and has visited 46 US states and over 20 countries around the world. Cheryl combines these two passions in what she calls running tourism which lets her quickly get her bearings and see the sights in new places.