Mechanical Engineer Specializing in Patents, Product and Machine Design, Safety, Operation and Failure Analysis, and Ionizers

Technical Consultant #1852

Patents and intellectual property: Analysis of patents and claims for mechanical products, machines and systems.
Failure analysis and forensics: Evaluation of failure root causes for electromechanical products and machines.
Safety and risk analysis: Analysis of machine guarding and interlock designs for operator protection.
Automated assembly machines: Specification, design, development, construction and operation of automated assembly machines.
Vacuum metalizers and metalizing machines: Specification, design, development, construction and operation of automated assembly machines.
Optical disc manufacturing equipment: Evaluation of machine operation, process, safety and reliability.
Sensors: design, debug, use and operation of various sensor technologies in production machinery.
Ionization systems: Design and use of ionizers for static elimination, charging and discharging of plastics.
UV curable coating systems and machinery: Design and debug of UV curing systems.
Other technologies: Robotics, CD, DVD, CDR, and injection molding machinery.

Expert Witness Experience

Workplace Injury - Safety interlock and machine design analysis.
Cryo Fluid Piping Failure and Injury - Assessment of cause.
Compact Disc Piracy Case - Evaluation of evidence, report.
Intellectual Property - Evaluation of intellectual property for valuation assessment.
Patent Infringement - Evaluation of claims, report.
Workplace Injury - Forensic analysis of failures.
Workplace Injury - Evaluation of machine guarding and interlocking.
Machine Failure - Evaluation of design.
Deposition-Physical Vapor.

Undisclosed Company, President and Principal Engineer, 1998 - Present

Engineering consulting relating to patents, intellectual property, product design and process automation.

Steinke Beyer, Lost Altos Hills, CA, East Coast Regional Manager, 2000 - Present

Engineering consulting relating to patents, intellectual property, failure analysis, safety and human factors engineering, and product remediation.

Marca Coating Technologies, LLC, Scarborough, ME, 2009 - 2011

As Vice President of Sales and Innovation engineering development and intellectual protection of new vacuum coating machines and technologies.

D2 Inline Solutions, LLC, Scarborough, ME, President, 2001 - 2009

Development, intellectual property protection and reduction to practice of new production processes for coating plastic parts.

First Light Technology, Inc., Saco, ME, 1998 - 1991

Director of Technology Development, 1997 - 1998

Director of Engineering, 1991 - 1997

Chapman Corp., Vice President of Engineering, 1985 - 1991

GTE Products Corporation, Standish, ME, Senior Engineer, 1982 - 1985

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Whippany, NJ, Technical Staff, 1979 - 1982

Credentials

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Academic and Professional Affiliations

Member, National Society of Professional Engineers
Member, American Society of Safety Engineers
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Member, Society of Vacuum Coaters
Member, Northeastern University Engineering Department - Industrial Advisory Board
Past President, Windham Educational Foundation Board of Directors
Past instructor, PE Exam review class, University of Southern Maine
Participant, State of Maine Commission on Science and Technology Literacy

Publications and Patents

Author of numerous articles for; technical magazines, technical reports, presentations, seminars, and conferences.
18 U.S. patents.