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Expert (pronounced moy-man, ) is a former certified ISO 9000 auditor. Expert advises on productivity and quality assurance improvements, preparations for current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) for FDA compliance. As an expert user of mainframes, minicomputers and microprocessors, he is familiar with the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) of the Software Engineering Institute. He is the person to call for validations of computer systems.

Expert is an expert in the development of pharmaceutical and biotechnology processes. These processes pertain to antibiotics, enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, allergens, steroids, and their recovery. He served six weeks in Kazakstan as an International Exchange Service Corp. (IESC) Volunteer Executive, to analyze the operation of two huge but nearly paralyzed biotechnology companies. He proposed at the Pentagon integrated solutions for company restructuring in line with U.S. defense conversions interest.

His proposed solutions provided focal points for discussions between Kazakstan and United States government departments. For his efforts he received a letter of appreciation from the Honorable Senator Bradley. Expert has also audited pharmaceutical operations in Israel, Scotland, and the United States.

Expert services companies who need to acquire, assess, or rapidly and economically develop process technology or production capabilities. Expert is a biochemical engineer skilled in microbiology, biochemistry, experimental designs, statistical analyses, and statistical process control. Recent projects include crystallization of a paper company by-product, followed by patent application. He was also involved with a cost evaluation related to marketing a new pharmaceutical product.

As a process development specialist and process engineer, he has guided work on over 40 commercial fermentation processes. He has scaled from volumes of 250 ml. shakeflasks to over 30,000 gallon production reactors. He designed a production method for enzyme deactivation using poisonous gas. He designed and installed equipment for spraydrying and fluidized bed drying, enzyme immobilization and agglomeration, as well as equipment for ultra and dia-filtration, chromatography, and lyophilization. Recently he determined for Union Camp Co. the cost of a new process. With limited information he established, via simulations and scale-up optimizations based upon linear programming, the size of required equipment.

Expert has worked as a systems analyst with the online process control of adiabatic petroleum reforming reactors. He has over 20 years of experience using computers in a pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing environments. He built, maintained, managed, and analyzed large relational databases for petroleum reforming and pharmaceutical manufacturing. He is the author of mainframe and copyright protected personal computer software used by major pharmaceutical companies for process change tracking in antibiotic production. His Quizer (c) and XY-tBase (c) software links product yields with indexed process documentation, provides quality assurance, and provides a method for validated uniform data entry, data retrieval, engineering calculations, profile averaging, and quick plotting for process visualization. This results in rapid process and yield improvements. The Quizer program, when used by Imcera in Terra Haute, Indiana, delivered a 28 percent antibiotic yield improvement within 8 months' time. The HTL, High Teach Linking Method Program (c), operational at the Professional Service Group associated with the New Jersey Labor Department, provides computer illiterates with off line internet job bank data search capabilities. Another version links job seekers with requirements of incoming jobs via pattern recognition of common skills.

As a biochemical engineer, Expert made it possible for E.R. Squibb & Sons to rise from fifth to second place in the semi-synthetic penicillin market. The success was a result of his development of a stable low-cost production immobilized enzyme process, which helped eliminate competitors.

He improved enzyme production. The Marshall division thereby became the most profitable operations of all of Miles' divisions. He expanded its plant capacity by 35% by fermenting in Europe, shipping of sterile bulk liquid concentrate via a three-week ocean transport, followed by product recovery and finishing in the United States. Here he designed and installed production facilities for production of dust-free detergent enzymes and for the production of immobilized glycoisomerase. He developed major process improvements for production of protease, amylase, pectinase, glyocsidase, glucoamylase, glucoisomerase enzymes used in the detergent, baking, brewery, food, animal fodder, and beverage industries. At Merck & Co. Inc. he doubled chephalosporin fermentation capacity within 2.5 years, using microbial, bioengineering, and computer skills, thereby contributing over $100 million to annual profits.

He was involved in day-to-day operations of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical plant designs. He performed routine equipment sizing, line sizing calculations, and drew process and instrumentation flow diagrams. As director he was responsible for technology transfer, sales presentations, and project executions. He put the name of John Brown on the map of the United States. Since then, Expert has worked as a subcontractor for several engineering companies to assist them in detail design and engineering of Nutrasweet 1/2 (Aspartame), polymer, biopolymer, and genetic engineering plants.

Expert is an accomplished computer programmer, skilled in the use of mainframe, minicomputer and microprocessor (PC) computers. He started out programming in FORTRAN, to solve his operational needs in pharmaceutical manufacturing using IBM mainframe computers under JCL control using MVS. He worked at Engelhard Industries with a GE 4020 on-line process mini-computer. Profits from biotechnology consulting are reinvented in multimedia software development tools to expand data retrieval of records to include retrieval of images based upon image content. Expert is currently studying subjects in chaos theory which involves finding the locations of stable pairs of non-linear dynamic systems. This led him to the study of Smale horseshoes, Cantor sets and Knot Theory, all of which are known to have made contributions to a better understanding of biological phenomena.

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Expert reviewed a tissue culturing process, and advised a pharmaceutical company on cost reduction methods. He determined the cost of a product manufacturing plant. He supervised laboratory research in the production of a cholesterol-binding product from tall oil, and achieved required 90% purity by crystallization. He advised a chemical engineering company in Volvograd, Russia on the design of hemicellulase derivative manufacturing technology.