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Expert is founder and President of a consulting firm providing product applications assistance to materials and manufacturing companies. Expert helps companies make more cost-effective use of the sheet metal specified for each application. He performs technical analyses to determine if the forming process is sufficiently robust to use the ordered sheet metal grade, thereby minimizing scrap rate due to sheet metal properties, and maximizing uptime and productivity.

Expert has worked with automotive and non-automotive OEMs and their Tier One/Two/Three suppliers, as well as steel and aluminum producers and their service centers. Team members have worked in mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, and Europe, as well as Canada and the US. Most of the work has been in materials selection/optimization, tooling buyoff, field formability analyses, manufacturing process improvement, and cost savings / avoidance projects. Upon completion of an Expert Witness engagement during a steel alloying Patent Infringement lawsuit, Expert's work was deemed highly significant and pivotal in winning the case. Expert writes the monthly Science of Forming / Metal Matters column in a magazine and has written for Stamping Journal and The Fabricator. He conducts seminars on Sheet Metal Formability for the Precision Metalforming Association. He wrote two chapters in ASM Handbook, Metalworking: Sheet Forming, and wrote one section in ASM Handbook, Analysis and Prevention of Component and Equipment Failures.

Expert serves on the Metals Specifications Committee of SAE International and is Past President of the North American Deep Drawing Research Group. Expert is the Metallurgy and Forming Technical Editor of an Advanced High Strength Steel Application Guideline.