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DR. JOHN DEFORD – Director of Engineering

John DeFord earned his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, as well as his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. Upon graduating in 1987, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL), where he wrote finite difference time-domain (FDTD) codes for accelerator component design within the organization's Beam Research Group. Later, John took over as program manager of the Computational Electronics and Electromagnetics Thrust area at LLNL.

In 1994 John joined McNeil Schwendler Corporation (MSC), where his technical expertise in the field of electromagnetic (EM) technology made him an instrumental member of the software team that developed MicroWaveLab, a competitor to Ansoft's HFSS software tool. In 1996,
Ansoft acquired MSC and he joined Ansoft to assist with HFSS.

Shortly thereafter, John founded STAAR, Inc. and began the development of Analyst, the industry's first fully parallelized high-performance, ultra-high accuracy 3D finite element method (FEM) EM code. In 2009 AWR acquired STAAR, and today John is responsible for guiding the company's 3D FEM technology tool development.

John DeFord
Director of Engineering