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Commercial Trucking and Agricultural Equipment
Peterbilt is a division of PACCAR, the global technology leader in design, manufacture, and customer support for on-highway trucks. PACCAR employs over 23,400 global associates and exceeds $19 Billion in total revenue. Promoted to lead product planning for Peterbilt’s Class…
Nonwovens, Strategic Planning
Several international industrial turn-around missions in Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Canada. At specialist textile company: doubled EBITDA margins and increased operating profit 6x. At steel wire & rod manufacturer: increased sales revenues by $40 million, reduced overhead costs by $2 million…
Piezoelectric Film and Materials Manufacturing
Expert was involved in the startup of piezoelectric film and materials business. As a manufacturing engineer, he advanced the process from a lab type piecework operation to large-scale continuous manufacturing. As a key team member, Expert designed and developed equipment…
Batteries: Testing, Research, Consulting, and Litigation
A creative electrochemist with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Electrochemistry) from 1987, Expert has accrued over 38 years' industrial experience, including 29 years in the battery industry in both manufacturing and R&D, where his career encompasses industrial R&D management and operations.…
Academic technology transfer, technology licensing, university IP policies, university-industry collaborations, IP management
Expert likes to create value through commercialization, especially working with researchers and small companies on early-stage technologies. From assessing the technology and finding its niche in the market to creating strategies for intellectual property protection, funding, and strategic partnering. In…
Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical Metallurgy
Expert has studied fatigue crack growth of metals. His Ph.D dissertation pertains to the effects of this behavior on stainless steel surfaces. Parts of Expert's studies and some other research done on the subject have been published in the science…
On-Line Near Infrared Process Analysis, Chemometrics Analysis, and Applied Spectroscopy
ON-LINE PROCESS ANALYSIS. Expert pioneered the development and use of on-line near infrared (NIR) process analysis for refinery and chemicals process monitoring at Exxon. His designs are the basis for a commercially available system and have been instrumental in products…
Fiber Spinning, Polymer Processing, and Composites Manufacturing
Expert's research in fiber spinning focuses on the development of new processes to improve fiber strength and fiber spinning economics. His group has a great interest in solving grand challenges from the polymer/fiber industry. The approaches his group takes involve…
PAEK Process Development and Manufacturing
Expert has over 10 years' PAEK experience. During this time, he served as new product development chemist, project leader, and manufacturing manager for PEKK commercialization. As a new product development chemist, he assumed hands-on responsibility for laboratory process and product…
Pipelines and Facilities Engineering (Upstream and Midstream)
- Background includes +15 yrs. project management, pipelines and facilities engineering with upstream and midstream experience (conventional developments as well as unconventional shale plays) in both gas/liquids process facilities, and pipeline systems both gathering and transmission, project delivery performance metrics,…