Backhoe Expert Witness

Expert No. 2904

Florida

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering   

Professional
 
Professional Engineer

Member

United States Power Squadron (sail and power boating safety)

Professional Experience
 
United States Army
Commissioned Officer, First Lieutenant
Assignments:
Special Services Officer
Sports and Entertainment Programs & Facilities including swimming pools, theater, playgrounds, ball fields, bowling alley, gymnasium, etc.
Newspaper and Information
Assistant Post Engineer
Supervision
Construction & Maintenance
High and low rise buildings including mess halls, troop facilities, and family housing
Roads and Grounds
Utility services: elevators, plumbing and sewer, water, gas, and electric

Wallace & Tiernan Company
Corrosion Engineer
Performed investigative engineering studies and prepared reports regarding corrosion of pipes, cables, bulkheads, piling and other buried  metal structures.
Designed and constructed corrosion mitigation systems including safety analysis.
Prepared operating & maintenance manuals including safety instructions and warnings

Kirchner Iron Works
Design Engineer
Designed and developed prototype products, agricultural chemical application machines, cultivators, tooling and other tractor-mounted machinery systems. Designs included safety analysis, operating & maintenance manuals, guarding, and safety instructions and warnings.
Designed jigs and fixtures for steel fabrication
Developed gas and electric welding procedures and techniques
Designed structural steel fabrications and supervised steel erection
Designed power press fixtures and guarding systems
Prepared operating instruction and maintenance manuals

Ethicon, Inc., Div. of Johnson and Johnson
Design Engineer
Designed synchronizing electrical control systems for multi-station
rotary machines including logic and wiring.
Developed proprietary stainless steel suture drilling, forming and
grinding machines involving gears, cams, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical systems and included human factors engineering, operating instructions, documentation and warnings.
Provided technical support to manufacturing, machine shop
and maintenance operations including work procedures, supervision and safety instruction.
Developed power-coining presses and tooling.
Designed, pneumatic and hydraulic systems.

Project Engineer
Maintained plant equipment and facilities for underground atomic
bombproof office and manufacturing facility:  heating, ventilating and
air conditioning equipment, cooling towers, airlocks, pressure and
vacuum pumps, filters, absorption refrigeration systems, boilers, aircompressors, manufacturing machines, water treatment systems, machine tools, special proprietary machines, ball mills, chemical cleaning machines, fork lifts, pallet jacks, cobalt sterilization facility, conveyors, custom blister forming and packaging machines, company vehicles.

Leeming/Pacquin, Div. of Pfizer, Inc.
Project Engineer
Designed and supervised construction, including: structural steel erection, concrete placement and reinforcement, mechanical, lighting and electrical systems, steam process systems, including boilers, valving and piping for: laboratories; processing; manufacturing; and warehousing facilities; including conventional, as well as, clean/sterile HVAC systems involving HEPA filtration, laminar flow air, dehumidification and humidification. Built Boiler plant for process steam and humidification requirements. Deionization system and large scale steam driven still for distilled deionized water plant for product process manufacturing.
Designed and built plant plumbing, processing and waste systems.
Designed, and built, special valve and operator system for product filling machine.
Designed high speed synchronized manufacturing and packaging line including ergonomics, human factors and human factors engineering.
Designed guards and warning labels.
Designed mechanical and electrical interlocking fail safe control system for synchronized machine line.
Designed custom liquid product filling machines.
Designed standard and special conveyor systems, drives and controls.
Designed synchronization drive for high speed bottle labeler.
Designed large scale chemical processing systems:  tanks, kettles,  
mixers, pumps, valves, filters, deionizers, stills, and control systems.
Designed printing press and web handling equipment.
Designed and patented thermo plastic consumer product container, including product safety analysis.
Designed packaging processes and developed machine tooling for fillers, cappers, labelers, cartoners, case-packers, printers.
Designed mechanized plastic thermoforming and seal packaging system.
Designed thermal, and steam/gas sterilization process.
Designed centrifugal washing system for cleaning inside eye droppers.
Designed feed screw and conveyer container transport systems.
Designed steal rule die stamping system.
Developed cap and bottle sorting equipment.
Designed and developed a vacuum product flow rotary coupling.  
Synchronized a high-speed tamper proof neckband application machine and thermal shrink tunnel.
Developed a high-speed tamper evident neck band applicator and shrink tunnel.
Developed special tooling and heat treating process for the production of special circular knives.
Provided technical support to the production, machine shop, and  
maintenance operating personnel including human factors engineering, instruction, documentation and warnings.

Dental Products Company, Div. of Johnson and Johnson
Manager of Engineering
Developed silver alloy powder filling and mercury metering machine 
(hazardous), EPA requirements, including product safety analysis.
Designed machine tool production systems.
Designed and developed powdered metal production systems including ergonomics, human factors, and human factors engineering.
Developed operating procedures and work methods.
Designed high temperature hydrogen gas reduction furnace (hazardous), EPA requirements, including ergonomics, human factors, and human factors engineering together with instruction, documentation, procedures and warnings.
Moved a manufacturing facility from coast to coast and another from the mainland to Puerto Rico.  Performed appropriate safety analysis and provided instruction, training, documentation and warnings to employees and management involved in these operation. 
Designed and built high-pressure gaseous hydrogen tank farm and distribution piping and control system.
Designed hydrogen processing room with pressure relief blowout wall.
Developed tablet press tooling and rebuilt presses
Designed automatic metallic mercury unit dose packaging machine  
(hazardous), EPA requirements.
Designed ventilation and vacuum exhaust system for mercury operation.
Designed guards, interlocks, instructional material and warnings.
Designed positive displacement abrasive-compound filling machine.
Designed inert gas heat treating systems for powdered metal.
Designed modifications to building structural system.
Designed facility with blow-out walls for explosion hazard.
Designed plant and office layouts and set up building facilities.
Designed, and installed plant and office HVAC systems.
Provided engineering and maintenance support to polymer manufacturing
department.
Managed design, manufacturing engineering, facilities and production maintenance departments.
   
Pyrotronics, Inc.
Manager of Manufacturing Engineering/Director of Manufacturing
Reorganized electronic thermal and smoke detection device plant.
Redesigned products to improve manufacturability and function, including safety analysis.
Redesigned manufacturing processes including: flow solder machines 
hand soldering, hand assembly, machine assembly, component and  product testing, quality control, order picking systems including consideration of ergonomics, human factors, and human factors engineering.
Developed operating procedures and work methods.
Designed and installed HVAC systems.

A Company (owner)
General Manager & Engineering Consultant
Provided engineering and design support for renovation and new construction projects, including safety analysis, ergonomics, human factors, and human factors engineering.
Designed, constructed and installed spiral, circular, winder, special  and conventional stairs and railings, including safety analysis.
Managed a custom woodworking facility including supervision, safety, instruction, operating procedures and warnings
Manufactured custom architectural woodwork.
Designed production systems and operating procedures including, cautionary instructions and warnings.
Designed woodworking machines.
Designed tools, guards, jigs and fixtures.
Developed operating procedures and work methods.
Designed dust collection and exhaust systems.

Engineering Consultant (owner)

In excess of 250 forensic related engineering assignments have been completed to date. Services offered are with respect to professional engineering forensic consulting including safety analysis, examination and evaluation, of specific system designs, operations, and safety warnings and instructional materials. These have included: failure analysis, intended function of the equipment, facility or system; compliance with contractual specifications; industrial, commercial and governmental codes and standards; accepted engineering practice; warnings; and accident reconstruction; Oral and/or written reports of findings, including professional opinions; Oral deposition and trial testimony regarding technical findings.