Mrs. Melanie Berg has over 35-years of experience as a designer, verification engineer, instructor, and reviewer for ASIC and FPGA applications. Her more visible accomplishments are her contributions to the FPGA designs for the NASA sponsored New Horizons Pluto and Beyond Mission; and her research/development in mitigation strategies. Melanie was a member of the Radiation Effects and Analysis group at NASA/GSFC for 20 years; and is the founder/CEO of Space R³ LLC.  She has published and presented several papers regarding: ionization and microelectronic error-response characterization, reliable synchronous design methodology, robust verification techniques, mitigation strategies for critical circuitry, reliability/survivability prediction calculations, and hardness assurance for space flight systems.