Expert No. 45084 – Engineering Expert – CA(S)
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Consulting expert with more than 35 years of experience and expertise in physics, engineering, new product design, and production scale-up to assist industry in high precision and general industrial cleaning. Areas of expertise include inertial instrument design disciplines include laser physics, fiber optics, acoustics, and magnetic resonance.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Patent analysis, proposed new product - review prior art and work with investors and legal counsel to provide appropriate and comprehensive teaching of the invention
- Patent analysis, existing product - evaluate the teachings of the patents in question; testified before the International Patent Office in Munich
- Patent disputes, national and international
- Worker safety, OSHA - address the issue from a technical, scientific standpoint; effectively demonstrate the correct approaches to minimize hazards to employees
- Environmental issues, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), South Cost Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)
- Comment on impending local, regional, and national regulations
- Evaluate claims of technical equipment damage from water exposure
- Civil, Criminal, and Insurance Related Issues - ground contamination, cleaning product design and performance, appropriate usage of cleaning agents and process fluids, and cleanliness of manufactured product
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- On site process assessment and analysis
- Evaluation of alternative processes
- Market research, applications of products to diverse applications
- Troubleshooting, failure analysis
- Process improvement
- Recommendations of process options for stringent regulatory climates
- Process validation
- Successful analytical approach to complex permitting issues of private clients
- Intellectual property assessment, U.S. and international
- Assistance to litigants in patent disputes
- Research in environmental policy
- Training, education, tutorials, presentations, and publications emphasizing practice applications of the physics of cleaning to production and surface quality
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.S. | Physics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| M.S. | Physics | Rutgers University | |
| Ph.D. | Physics | Rutgers University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Association Connecting Electronic Industries (IPC)
- Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA)
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Awards & Honors:
| Multiple "company private" awards in advanced technology |
Other Career Highlights:
| Extensive presentations and publications |
| Co-editor "Handbook for Critical Cleaning" |
| Nine patents |
