Aerospace Contamination Control and Yield Improvement Expert

Technical Consultant #1872

Summary

Manufacturing processes for critical, precision, and industrial cleaning.

Specific Focus

Evaluate, optimize surface quality of manufactured objects and subassemblies (hard surfaces).
Evaluate, downselect and implement process equipment and chemistries.
Understanding of solvent, aqueous, and "non-chemical processes."
Cleaning process design, cleaning process validation.
Cleanroom optimization.
Set up product monitoring program.
Design analytical test program and assess analytical test results.
Develop and test cleaning agents and cleaning processes.
Expedite, facilitate resolution of safety and environmental regulatory issues.
Review, assess intellectual property issues.
Market research, applications of products to diverse applications.
Recommendations of process options for stringent regulatory climates.
Intellectual property assessment, U.S. and international.
Assistance to litigants in patent disputes.
Research in environmental policy.
Training, education, tutorials, presentations and publications emphasizing practical applications of the physics of cleaning to production and surface quality.

Expert Witness Experience

Patent disputes - national and international. Review patents relating to cleaning process. Demonstrated novel aspects of patent to EU international patent office.
Wording of patent, new cleaning products. Provided language for patent teaching unique attributes of groundbreaking cleaning product.
Patents for military and aerospace industries and applications. Coordinated with legal counsel to develop clear, rugged, defensible patents.

Undisclosed Company, Vice and Treasurer President, 1999 - Present

Supplying clients with expert consulting in manufacturing process development, process modification with emphasis on critical cleaning, surface preparation, process design, and failure analysis/resolution.

Northrop Grumman, Navigation Systems Division, Woodland Hills, CA, 1969 - 2005

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

Designed, developed and transitioned to production precision instruments, particularly inertial navigation instruments. In-house expert on gyroscope design.

Activities

Application of physics and engineering to diverse inertial instrument design.
Disciplines include laser physics, fiber optics, acoustics, and magnetic resonance.
Plan, coordinate and supervise developmental testing.
Train production engineers and technicians.
Transition the design from the engineering lab to the factory.
Coordinate instrument qualification program for major product line.
Principal Investigator, several development programs.
Trusted advisor to senior management.
Chief Editor, final reports, multiple major programs.
Key presentations to military and government program managers.

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