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Expert has over 25 years of experience with tooling design, casting methods, cast product design, machining initialization, and manufacturing methods. His expertise includes aluminum solidification and heat treatment, x-ray analysis and related physical properties, and aluminum corrosion protective coatings. Expert is especially knowledgeable of aluminum and aluminum alloys, aluminum and aluminum alloy welding, and aluminum alloy properties and data. He has expertise in metal casting, including centrifugal casting, die casting, permanent mold casting, sand casting, and investment casting.

Expert is experienced in the area of manufacturing methods and systems, product design, and product development. This includes product design for assembly, product design for manufacturability, automated machine design, and factory automation and integration. He has been involved in a multitude of design problems and projects, including computer hardware, defense system hardware, racing engines, aircraft hardware, and cost effective casting design. He has designed and installed custom automatic equipment for metal foundries. He has operated several metal casting and machining facilities profitably, through agressive periods of growth.


Expert has extensive professional and practical experience encompassing management team building, and has operated various manufacturing facilities as Predident or President & CEO for over twenty years. In this capacity he has been involved with finance, marketing and sales, labor and union negotiations, and plant design, and automation. His expertise also includes preparingand evaluation of marketing studies and acquisition material.

Expert had the opportunity to participate on Pace Industries’ acquisition team ($550 MM sales) while running their west coast operations. This activity (with the company chairman, the CFO and the COO) consisted of technical liaison, with direct responsibility to evaluate and report on plant and equipment, casting methodology, production and assembly methods, equipment capacity, status and maintenance, and customer-service capability and capacity. Opportunities across the USA as well as worldwide (Pacific Rim, Taiwan, mainland China, and Mexico) were investigated.

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Expert has worked continuously with The Boeing Company on the JDAM missile program to assure process improvement and a consistent quality level.He helped develop, prototype, and complete the manufacture of a next generation missile program (cast and machined parts) with Boeing St. Louis engineering. Expert resolved an in-plant production training problem with the development and use of dual screen digitally-recorded realtime X-ray to assure accuracy of on-floor inspection.He solved the problem of missing operations in a production line with the development of 100% check fixturing that allowed inspection without slowing down the line. Expert worked on alloy selection/change to aid a supplier with a corrosion and properties problem on sand casting.