About Us

Prodigy Surface Tech was created to offer its clients an alternative to the common electroplating shop. Our mission has been to design and build a specialty plating lab to handle any task from mission-critical research and development to full-scale production.

Prodigy Surface Tech is comprised of experts in the plating field who have worked together since 1987. We specialize in applying engineering principles that result in superior parts for our customers.

Personnel

Reliability is our strongest attribute. Drawing on our years of experience with each other and with our customers in the aerospace, medical, military and microwave industries, the team at Prodigy Surface Tech can creatively and efficiently solve today's complex plating challenges. Our blend of expertise and ingenuity has generated long-term satisfaction for both customers and employees alike. Our team includes:

John Shaw, President and CTO
John has a Bachelor's degree in Physics and 16 years of plating experience. John is an expert developer and engineer, having developed plating processes for ceramics, refractory metals, and platinum plating of titanium. John has 8 years experience in quality assurance and documentation, especially for ISO 9000:2000.
Mark Danitschek, Chairman and COO
Mark has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, a minor in Business Management, and 25 years of history in the plating industry. Equally seasoned on the administrative and production sides, Mark has extensive experience growing businesses from infancy to full-scale operation and is knowledgable in every stage of the plating process.
Jim Kikoshima, Vice President of Research & Development
Jim's 20 years of knowledge and experience in precious metals and chemistry offers great benefits to our customers. He is particularly talented in process design, development, and implementation.

Randy Souza, Sales and Marketing
Randy has outstanding engineering and facilities expertise, having been in plating lab production and management for over 20 years. Randy knows what is important to our customers and is able to communicate processes with individuals in management, engineering, and production alike.

Philosophy

At Prodigy Surface Tech, our goal is to get the job done with the highest quality possible. We can respond quickly and efficiently to even the most difficult plating task. To this end, we have created a multi-faceted plating lab compatible with ISO 9000:2000 standards to ensure the highest quality in the field.

Capabilities

Prodigy Surface Tech can solve nearly any metal finishing challenge using the following resources and materials:

In-House Resources Substrates Plated
Hydrogen Furnace
Blaster
Clean Room
Chem Lab for Analysis
Multiple plating lines
ISO-9000/2 compatible quality system
Molybdenum
Thermkon (Tungsten Copper)
TItanium
Kovar (TM)
All nickel iron alloys
Copper
Beryllium Copper