Expert No. 43088 – CA(S)
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Expertise Description: Ph.D., P.E. - Mechanical Engineer with strong design, program management, and business development. Manufacturing background. Extensive experience in the management of new product development including oversight of intellectual property, formation of multi-disciplinary teams, concurrent engineering and state-of-the-art techniques for quickly getting products to market. Specializing in fasteners, latching mechanisms, aircraft and other vehicle structures, structural analysis, numerical and nonlinear finite element modeling, metals behavior, products liability and personal injury.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Negligence: heavy armoire fall over, bus accident with fatalities.
- Products liability: articulated ladder defects, switchblade knife locking element.
- Breach of contract: fastener conformance to specifications, bottle-filling equipment.
- Contract fraud: inaccurate projected costs on firm fix-price contract.
- Patent payment conflict: pressure responsive electrical switches.
- Patent infringement: bulk scrap metal loading mechanism for shipping containers.
- Anti-trust: acquisition of a blind fastening technology company by a conglomerate.
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Solar power plant engineering.
- Fastener design and development.
- Mechanical engineering design.
- Patent infringement - infringement and validity analysis.
Licenses & Certifications:
| California Professional Engineer |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Civil Engineering - Structural Mechanics | University of California, Irvine | |
| MSME | Mechanical Engineering | California State University, Fullerton | |
| BSME | Mechanical Engineering | California State University, Fullerton |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Owner of an engineering consulting firm that provides litigation consulting to attorneys.
- Decades of engineering experience.
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- California Society of Professional Engineers
- National Academy of Forensic Scientists
- Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists
- American Academy of Forensic Scientists
- American Society of Metals
- American Society of Civil Engineers
Awards & Honors:
| Owner of 32 U.S. patents with 10 pending before the Patent and Trademark Office. |
Other Career Highlights:
| Authored several articles in the Journal of Aerospace Engineering and other publications. |
