Expertise

• Registered Professional Engineer, California.
• Expert witness and litigation experience: Patent infringement, theft of trade secrets, contract dispute, fraud, class action, products liability.
• Mechanical engineering: Machine design, pumps, turbines, fans, flow devices, vacuum, bearings, seals and metals, plastics, glass and ceramics parts.
• Stress and vibration investigation, including cryogenics and heat transfer situations.
• Experience with diode lasers, lasers, optics and related optoelectronic devices.
• Industry experience: Computers and peripherals, data storage, document handling, telecommunications, electronics, lab equipment and medical instruments, chemical-process equipment, lasers and optics, semiconductor equipment, appliances, connectors, wire, cable, hi voltage.
• Engineering and manufacturing management: Cost reductions, product design, new product introduction, process development.
• Certified Management Consultant, Institute of Management Consultants.
• Commercial pilot, instrument-rated: Airplane, single engine, land and sea.
• Airplane, multi-engine, land, Federal Aviation Administration Certification
• Department of Defense clearance, inactive

Experience

Independent Consultant, 1985-present

• Developed and introduced to production the first mass-produced product to use the diode laser.
• Pioneered the one-man alignment laser, marketed worldwide by Nikon.
• Analyzed manufacturing yields and guided wide-ranging design changes to Improve manufacturing and reliability of implantable artificial heart.
• Designed plastic submersible pump which achieved #1 market share through Sears, Roebuck.
• Designed ultrasonically-welded plastic cassettes for analytical gel. Cassettes met stringent criteria for flatness and cost.
• Improved cooling and thermal stability of analytical instruments, to 0.1C, setting new standards of analytical accuracy.

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Product and Industrial Design, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, 1995-1997

• Instructor in materials and processes.

Russian-US Synergies, Inc., Saratoga, California, Director, Manager, Co-founder 1992-1997

• Engaged scientists and engineers to work on American projects in Russia.

RPC Industries, Vice President, Manufacturing, 1983-1985

• Responsible for two manufacturing plants, including materials, production, and test of high-voltage equipment for industrial processing and research.
• Responsible for designing high-voltage equipment for industrial processing.

Plasma Physics Laboratory, Supervised Research Office, Princeton University, operated for US Department of Energy.

• Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Laser Division.

Spectra-Physics, 1976-1983

• Production and industrial engineering and tooling of lasers for welding and cutting.
• Production and industrial engineering and tooling of construction-alignment lasers.

Honors & Publications

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Life Member
• Professional and Technical Consultants Association: Senior Member, Past President
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers: Senior Member
• Patents (6): Particle Collection Apparatus, Sump Pump, Traveling Block with Variable Air Spring

Education

• Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Bachelor of Science, Engineering, California Institute of Technology