About Rolf George Shervey

Rolf George Shervey’s diverse expertise and skill set are in business management consulting, project management, quality consulting and auditing, strategic planning, program management, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and technical writing. Self-employed, Shervey provides consulting and writing services. He has authored or been co-author of three technical publications.

Shervey’s passion for quality is reflected in his professional services and personal life.

He founded Quality Partners in 2015 and has served as Principal Consultant, Quality Management & Process, and is currently looking to expand his services. During the nine years, Shervey provided clients with recommendations for process improvement solutions aligned with their long-term goals, increased efficiency, and improved customer satisfaction. Shervey also authored quality manuals, policy documents, flow charts, and technical work instructions.

Shervey’s career spans 15 years in the semiconductor industry and eight years in aerospace.

Rolf George Shervey worked in key positions for Rudolph Technologies, now Onto Innovation, for over 14 years. From 2012 to 2015, Shervey led Rudolph Technologies to its first-ever ISO 9001 International Quality Management Systems certification and was promoted to Quality Systems Manager of the 600-plus employee company with locations in the U.S. and multiple foreign offices. In this role, he reduced spending by $364,000 in one year via efforts to cut PCB assembly costs. He recruited and matrix-managed 14 internal quality auditors across geographically distributed business unit locations.

Prior to his promotion to Quality Systems Manager, Shervey was the Senior Manufacturing Engineer. He authored internal quality manuals, developed quality improvement and assurance processes, and liaised with third-party certification auditors.

He began his career as a Senior Applications Engineer at Rudolph Technologies, where he operated and inspected onsite meteorology equipment in an academic research setting with SEMATECH, the semiconductor industry consortium at SUNY Albany, New York. He also experimented with new sensor technologies, coordinated over 20 installations, process integrations, and buffs of $1M to $5M worth of equipment, liaised with potential commercial partners, and collaborated with industry experts. Shervey also trained clients in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, and Europe on setup, support, and integration for semiconductor defect inspection equipment and yield control software packages.