Expert No. 128471 – Engineering Expert – TX
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Expertise Description: P.E. - Consulting expert specializing in handling, transport, storage and loading of unit and bulk materials by conveyor systems. Expertise includes: design of materials handling systems and conveyors of various types as in: belt, roller, slider, overland, pipe, steep angle, screw, drag, bucket elevators and pneumatic. Additional expertise in specialty mobile machines, (track, rail, and wheel mounted), stackers, reclaimers, snow loaders, mobile screening plants, self-unloading trains and ships, ship unloaders and shiploaders. Design experience includes auxiliary process equipment, truck and rail car loading and unloading systems, thaw sheds, dust collection & suppression systems, feeders, bins, hoppers, scales, mixers. Screens, crushers. Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in Texas and five other states. Prior expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Antitrust
- Conveyor Fires & Explosions
- Conveyer Guarding
- Materials Handling Systems Safety Inspections
- Patent Infringement
- Personal Injury
- Product Liability
- Real Estate Asset Appraisal
- Restraint of Trade
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Regional Manager, Robins Engineers & Constructors/ O&K
- Marketing Manager ORBA Corporation
- Manager Sales and Estimating, Plains Machinery Company
- Manager Engineered Systems Estimating, Continental Conveyor Company
- Regional Manager, Robins Engineers & Constructors
- Staff Engineer Materials Handling, Willis & Paul Company
- Project Engineer, Continental Grain Company
- Design & Systems Engineer, Hewitt Robins
Licenses & Certifications:
| Professional Engineer - Alabama, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BSME | Mechanical Engineering | Newark College of Engineering | |
| MBA | Fairleigh Dickenson University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Materials Handling Engineering Division Executive Committee and Chairman, Current Member of Committee - Safety Standards for Conveyors and Related Equipment, Current Member of Committee - Safety Standard for Mechanical Power Transmission Apparatus, Founding and Current Member of the Houston Materials
- CEMA - Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association, First Technical Member, Member of the Conveyor Safety Committee, Committee member for the Revised Chapter 6 and New Technology Chapter of the Conveyor Handbook
- ANSI - American national Standards Institute, Current Member of Committee; American National Standard for Machine Tools
- ASSE - American Society of Safety Engineers
- SME - Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc
- Vice President Engineering, Texmarc Conveyor Company
- Draftsman Westinghouse Electric, Chief Draftsman, Bergen Machine & Tool
Awards & Honors:
| U.S. Army, Honorable Discharge |
Other Career Highlights:
| Bulking Sampling at Navajo Mine, Coal Age Magazine |
| Automatic Sampling Systems, Catalog & Design Manual |
| High Tonnage Blending of Raw Materials, SME |
