Expert Details

Technology Licensing and Intellectual Property Management, Oil Well Logging, Acoustic Forensics

ID: 108229 Connecticut, USA

Expert served as a technology and licensing consultant to numerous technology-based companies and during the period from 1994 to 2000, managed the worldwide licensing of Mobil Oil Corporation's exploration and producing technologies. As principal of Expert Technology Licensing, he now offers licensing consulting services to technology-based businesses. Licensing proprietary technologies is an effective way to achieve added returns on a company's investment in the development of intellectual property (IP). The licensing process requires expertise in formulating a strategy for managing an enterprise's IP, the appraisal of relevant internal and external technologies, and in the negotiation process to finalize agreements that achieve the desired strategic and financial goals associated with a licensing program. Expert also provides related services such as patent and technology portfolio evaluation, and technical and negotiating support for in-licensing activities. He has also taught management courses at Yale University in the area of strategic technology management.

Expert's work in the field of vibration includes vibration analysis, isolation, and vibration related-noise mitigation. As Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University from 1989 to 1996, he taught graduate level courses on the subject of vibrations.

Acoustic and wave propagation phenomena are areas in which Expert specializes. Applications include diverse industrial settings, such as oil well drilling and logging, seismic analysis, structural design, and mitigation of noise in consumer products. He has published more than a dozen articles in technical journals and books dealing with acoustical and wave propagation phenomena in elastic and anelastic materials, and with such related phenomena as the interaction between elastic waves and crack growth in brittle solids.

Logging is the process by which specialized instruments are used to measure and record a host of rock formation characteristics during well drilling. Virtually every discipline in the fields of mechanics, electronics, and physics -- ranging from acoustics to nuclear instrumentation -- is brought to bear in the measurements made by logging instruments. Expert has extensive experience in working with oil companies and oil service companies in developing and using such devices, and interpreting the resulting measurements.

Much of Expert's career has been focused on industrial applications of the mechanical engineering sciences relating to aerospace, petroleum, and instrumentation technologies. He can offer specific expertise in the mechanics of solids and fluids, vibrations, acoustics, failure analysis, and petroleum exploration and producing technology.

Expert developed Mobil Oil Corporation's worldwide exploration and producing technology licensing program and created a multimillion-dollar business. Subsequently joined Mobil to manage the new business.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1966	Degree: Ph.D.	Subject: Engineering Mechanics	Institution: Brown University
Year: 1963	Degree: Sc.M.	Subject: Engineering Mechanics	Institution: Brown University
Year: 1961	Degree: B.C.E.	Subject: Civil Engineering	Institution: The Cooper Union

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2000 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Principal	Department:
Responsibilities: Expert provides technology licensing consulting services to a broad range of technology oriented clients. Licensing offers a means of enhancing revenue and earnings by commercializing valuable technologies that can be made available to others without adversely affecting competitive advantage.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1994 to 2000	Employer: Mobil Technology Company	Title: Licensing Executive	Department:
Responsibilities: He created and managed Mobil Oil Corporation's worldwide exploration and producing technology licensing program.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1989 to 1996	Employer: Yale University	Title: Adjunct Professor	Department:
Responsibilities: He taught graduate courses in the School of Engineering and the School of Organization and Management.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1987 to 1994	Employer: Triad Group	Title: Founder and Principal	Department:
Responsibilities: He provided consulting services to technology-based businesses in the areas of strategic technology management, intellectual property management and technology licensing.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1982 to 1987	Employer: Teleco Oilfield Services	Title: Vice President	Department: Research, Development & Engineering
Responsibilities: Available upon request.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1980 to 1982	Employer: Teleco Oilfield Services	Title: Director	Department: Advanced Development
Responsibilities: Available upon request.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1978 to 1980	Employer: NL Industries	Title: Manager	Department: Sensor Development
Responsibilities: Available upon request.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1973 to 1978	Employer: Schlumberger Research Center	Title: Senior Project Engineer	Department:
Responsibilities: Available upon request.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Expert holds membership in (among others) LES (Licensing Executives Society) and ASME.

Publications and Patents Summary
He has authored or coauthored 15 articles in professional journals and books, and holds a patent that involves casing cement.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert has extensive experience as an expert witness in state and federal courts and in providing deposition testimony.

Training / Seminars
As Adjunct Professor at Yale University, Expert taught management and engineering courses, including topics covering technology in global business and vibration in engineering.

Language Skills

Language	Proficiency
French	Expert reads French.

Fields of Expertise

technology licensing, intellectual property, patent, copyright infringement, intellectual fraud, vibration, noise vibration, rotational vibration, vibration damping, acoustics, engineering acoustics, solid acoustic property, solid acoustics, sound propagation, wave propagation, oil well logging, mechanical engineering, mechanics, intellectual property management, property management, brittleness, coefficient of strain, elastic modulus, oil exploration, mechanical stress test, vibratory stress relieving, anelastic material behavior, waveform, copyright, nonlinear dynamic response, technology innovation, technology transfer, new product assessment, research and development management, over-the-road vibration, mechanical system vibration, deformation, acoustic measurement, damping, mechanical property testing, acoustic emission, rigid-body dynamics, periodic motion, impact test, impact energy, liquid state mechanics, well drilling, drilling, transducer, oil, water hammer, vibration pickup, vibration isolation, machine vibration analysis, ultrasonics, torsion, structural mechanics, strategic research planning, strain gage, statics, shock vibration, pressure measurement, piezoelectric transducer, physical acoustics, petroleum, oil well cement, non-linear acoustics, metal failure analysis, solid mechanical property, mechanical fatigue, harmonic motion, geophysics, fracture mechanics, forced oscillation, fluid mechanics, materials failure analysis, failure analysis, elastic wave, dynamics, classical dynamics, liquid acoustics, acoustical engineering application, acoustic analysis

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