Expertise

• Military and police force armor development.
• Composite products and material systems technology, development, production and use for military and police armor.
• Marketing of new advanced materials, particularly for armor applications.
• Development and commercialization of new armor materials and composite armor design.
• Management of new materials start up companies.
• Advanced ceramics, reinforced metals, performance fibers and composite materials.
• Marketing to the military.

Experience

Consultant to Materials and Armor Businesses 2002 - Present

Simula, Inc. Phoenix, AZ, Armor Products Manager 1998 - 2001

• Transformed small business segment of Simula to major revenue and profit center for the company.
• Experienced in marketing armor products and armor systems to the military and to police agencies.
• Familiar with the technology of ballistic impact and armor strategies to defeat the threat.

Lanxide Armor Products, Inc., Newark, DE President & CEO 1988 - 1998

• Started and built Lanxide Armor Products to profitability and $7 million annual sales.

E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, DE 1965 -1985

• Segment Manager for Armor Systems and Government Relations, Aerospace Defense, Composites Division, Textile Fibers Department.
• Process and Industrial Hygiene Instruments, Instrument Systems, Specialty Products Division, F&FP Department.
• National Sales Manager, Market Development Manager Thermal Analyzers, Analytical Instruments Division, Photo Products Department.
• Technical Marketing Supervisor, Industrial Fibers Division, Textile Fibers Division.
• Technical Marketing Specialist "Kevlar" Special Products, Industrial Fibers Division, Textile Fibers Division.
• Senior Research Engineer, Research Engineer Pioneering Research Division, Textile Fibers Department

Honors & Publications

Education

Ph.D., M.S., Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University,

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland