Plastics Engineer Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.499

New York

Expert 499 is a Plastics Engineer (MS - Stevens Institute of Technology) with over 15 years of domestic and international experience in Product Development, Tooling and Assembly System design in the Medical, Toy and Consumer Product  industries.  He has been involved in all phases of new product development from the writing of the Product Definition through the design of  the product, tooling and assembly systems.

Expert 499 has the training and experience to review products, designs and manufacturing  procedures for defects, flaws and errors.  He can trace and document the decisions that led to the final product noting simple, inexpensive design or manufacturing changes and warnings which, had been incorporated, would have prevented injury without excessively increasing the cost or reducing the utility of  the product.  He can document these changes with both engineering drawings and photo-realistic renderings.

Expert 499 can assist in identifying defects and tracking the critical decisions made between the inception of a new product and it's final form.  Decisions such as whether to change a part or a material in order to reduce cost, whether to relax Quality Control standards to adapt to the manufacturing department's level of assembly expertise, whether to skip recommended testing procedures or overlook certain subcontractor shortcomings because of cost or deadline pressures.

Plastics, molding, product design and development expertise.  Material, manufacturing and tooling background.  Problem solving, product development strategy, manufacturing systems review.  Familiar with FDA/GMP/ISO standards.

Identified design and manufacturing problems with the introductory product of a start-up medical device company. Redesigned the product and tooling achieving FDA approval and broad customer acceptance.Supervised the Product Development Department of the Medical Products division of an International manufacturer. Developed a line of new products doubling revenue from $25 to $50 million.

Reviewed product and mold designs of a new Internet Telephone. Designed the Assembly, Decorating and Quality Control systems for the company’s Chinese manufacturing facility.

Defined a new product for Fuji Medical Systems. Wrote the product specifications and designed the user interface.

Reviewed and restructured the technical functions of an American subsidiary of an English Packaging company. Reduced product to market time by 20%, improving cash flow, sales volume and market share.

Integrated the Design and Engineering process of several Point of Purchase Display companies, facilitating the flow of information between departments reducing both the lead times for new product designs and design errors.

Education

MS - Plastics - Stevens Institute of Technology.

BS - Industrial Management - C.W. Post College

Industrial Experience

Over thirty years of Domestic and International experience in the Plastics Industry. Product Design, Development and Manufacture of Automotive, Medical, Toy and Consumer Products.

Product Liability

Product design review

Failure mode analysis

Material selection criteria

Shop floor experience in manufacturing and Quality Control

Knowledge of F.D.A., G.M.P., P.P.A.P. and O.S.H.A. standards

CAD Drawings & Renderings

Employment

Chicago Miniature Lamp
Managed Product, Tooling and Manufacturing Systems Design for the Automotive Products Group. 

Intercon Consulting
Plastics, Product Design and Engineering Consulting to Domestic and International corporations.  Designed Medical, Consumer and HBA products.

Sutton Technologies Co., Ltd.
Responsible for the design of new products and the design review of product submissions for this International Product Development firm.  Coordinated all FDA, EPA and UL clearance testing for new products.

Pall Biomedical Products Corporation
New product development team leader for this manufacturer of disposable Medical products.  Headed the Product Development team that created a complete line of products for a new corporate division.  Designed products, tooling and assembly systems

American Pharmaseal Corporation
Responsible for the product design, tooling and manufacturing process development of new disposable medical products for this division of Baxter HealthCare Corp.

United States Surgical Corporation
Manufacturing Engineer responsible for new product design and assembly system approval for this international manufacturer of surgical stapling products.

Verly Plastics Corporation
Project Engineer responsible for the review of new product designs. Supervised production, generated quotations, designed injection molds and assembly tooling.

Technical Associations

Senior Member – The Society of Plastics Engineers

President - The Society of Plastics Engineers – New York Section -  1970 – 1974

Patents

Available upon Request