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Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Materials Selection, and Materials Design
Expert has a Ph.D in Industrial Metallurgy and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering -- specifically, in mechanical behavior and performance of metals and alloys -- from the University of Birmingham, England. His research interests include mechanical behavior of materials-microstructure-deformation processing relations,…
Injury Biomechanics (head and spine), Medical Device Design, Structural Analysis, Patents
Expert has over 30 years of experience in structural analysis, including experience porting finite element codes to specialized architectures, developing special-purpose mesh generation tools, and assessing the correspondence of structural models with experimental measurements. Expert has developed de novo programs…
Aerospace Propulsion Systems, Compressible and Incompressible Fluid Flow, Thermodynamics, Failure Review Board
He has worked for more than 31 years in the propulsion area, including both academic and industrial settings. Specific area of propulsion expertise include liquid rocket systems, high-Mach air-breathing propulsion systems, and solid rocket motors. The first 16 years of…
Precision Mechanical and Electromechanical Device Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Statistics
He has developed and implemented AQL criteria for precision mechanincal components in a high volume Far East manufacturing environment as part of the overall quality management plan deployment. This work was performed in the disk drive and precision motor industries…
Asset Care and WCM: Maintenance, Reliability, SH&E, STR, Supply Chain for Maintenance, EAM/CMMS.
- He has applied his maintenance management background as functional developer, trainer, and project director for EAM/CMMS multi-site implementations for several industries. - It includes participation from the organization of maintenance warehouse until maintenance process automation resulting in successful implementation…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Offshore Oil and Gas Construction Management
Offshore Installation Advisor, Interface and Delivery Coordinator and Offshore Representative with over 47 years of project management experience in offshore construction, fabrication, and marine installation. A US/UK dual citizen resident in London. Offshore credentials include in-date OPITO BOSIET and GOM…
Human Factors (Industrial Equipment)
Expert has over 20 years experience as an in-house and independent human factors consultant. His track record includes implementing innovative solutions through collaboration with engineering, marketing and program management departments resulting in products that capitalize on human capabilities and mitigate…
finance, neocortex, optimization, statistical, nonlinear, karate, combat, risk, trading, nuclear, physics, stochastic, intelligence, options
Expert's optimization code, Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA), is used worldwide in many disciplines for global optimization and sampling. He has experience leading teams in several disciplines, developing some powerful models and algorithms for extracting signal out of noise for some…
Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Sol-gel Sciences, Optics, Biotechnology, Glass, Ceramics, Spectroscopy
Expert is a specialist of sol-gel chemistry. He developed a new non-aqueous method for sol-gel glass coating to obtain transparent films for integrated optics and photonics using polysiloxane materials. The aim was to obtain low-softening temperature glasses to permit facile…