Composite Armor Products and Military Business Expert (1333)

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

Education

Ph.D., M.S., Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University,
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland