Pynes, Craig S.

Juanita's areas of practice include litigation support and the preparation of noninfringement and invalidity opinions.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Juanita worked as a process engineer at Texas Instruments in silicon technology and development. She began her career as a plasma etch engineer working on shallow trench isolation. She also spent several years working as a thin films engineer developing high stress nitrides and nickel silicide for C027 and C014 technology nodes. She holds shallow trench and silicide patents from her work at Texas Instruments. Her background also includes research in VLSI design with an emphasis on digital logic and implementation of Boolean functions and deposition of titania and titania-zirconia multilayer thin films deposited by reactive sputter deposition using oxygen and argon plasmas. Juanita interned at Texas Instruments and Motorola during graduate school. She is the recipient of the National Society of Engineers Distinguished Fellow Award, the Dupont Academic Excellence Award, and the American Vacuum Society Graduate Research Award.

Juanita is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, the Black Law Students Association, and the State Bar of Texas, Law Student Division.