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Expert in Transport Packaging, Distribution Packaging, Protective Packaging
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert has over 40 years of industry experience in developing transport packaging designs and systems for a variety of products. These products include both consumer and industrial, domestic and export, and range from small spare parts in pouches to large multi-ton machines in crates. He specializes in packaging for shipment by common carriers such as LTL trucking, UPS, and FedEx. His years of experience are applied to shipping damage reduction and cost improvement in packaging materials, production, and labor. He is very familiar with sources of equipment and material as well as the estimated costs of package production. He has acted as an expert witness in legal cases involving packaging, package handling, and shipping. He presents training courses and seminars on transport packaging and package testing. He specializes in the design, testing, and specifications of transport packaging, including the unitizing and handling of packaged products. In the past 19 years, he has worked with over 150 different clients, including 25 from the Fortune 500 list. The majority of the clients are users of packaging.
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Expert has worked with most methods and equipment for handling a wide variety of shipping containers. He has designed and tested corrugated packaging materials including corrugated boxes for a wide variety of products for over 40 years.
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Many projects he has worked on over the past 40 years have involved the cost reduction of packages. The emphasis on most projects has been damage reduction and/or cost improvement, covering domestic, export and military packaging. The products Expert has worked on include industrial, commercial, and consumer goods. He conducted a multi-plant study for packaging cost reduction and improved customer satisfaction (commercial products). This included visiting five plants and seven customers to identify opportunities; identifying twelve projects to reduce packaging costs over $400 million; identifying several projects to reduce in-transit damage; making specific recommendations for each project; and comparing operations to industry best practices.
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Expert provides test plans for packaged products and recommends methods such as palletizing, slip sheets, stretch wrapping, and others. He developed an extensive packaging performance testing protocol for a major industrial corporation. This included test equipment descriptions and details on conducting tests to ASTM and ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) requirements for a variety of distribution systems and full range of package sizes. He also designed and tested a palletized bulk pack for an inexpensive small commercial product. Expert's unique design reduced the possibility of in-transit damage to products that are presently shipped in individual boxes via LTL truck. It also uses a lighter grade of corrugated, but is qualified for LTL trucking by successfully passing Rule 180 test requirements.
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Expert has been very active in ASTM for over 40 years, and is past Chairman (three terms) of Committee D10 on packaging.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Springfield, Massachusetts;
Chicopee, Massachusetts;
Syracuse, New York;
Albany, New York;
Schenectady, New York;
Utica, New York;
and Hartford, Connecticut.
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1951
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B.A.
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Industrial Administration
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Union College
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1981 to
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Independent Consultant
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1976 to 1981
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General Electric Company
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Packaging/Handling/Warehousing
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Corporate Consultant
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1968 to 1975
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General Electric Company
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Material Handling and Plant Layout
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Corporate Consultant
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1954 to 1967
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General Electric Company
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Corporate Packaging Laboratory
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Senior Packaging Engineer
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1951 to 1954
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Alco Products
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Packaging/Warehousing Planner
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Associations/Societies
Expert belongs to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Packaging Consultants Council, and the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP).
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Licenses/Certifications
Expert is a Registered Professional Engineer in Manufacturing Engineering (CA) and a Certified Professional in Packaging and Material Handling (IoPP).
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Professional Appointments
He is a representative of the United States on the ISO Technical Committee on Packaging.
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Awards/Recognition
In 1981, Expert won the Annual Packaging Award from the National Institute of Packaging, Handling, and Logistics Engineers. In 1992, he was elected to the Packaging Hall of Fame by the Packaging Education Foundation. In 2001, he was given the annual award for continuing education by the International Safe Transit Association.
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Publications and Patents Summary
Expert authored a book entitled, "Transport Packaging," and has written several articles for trade journals. He has been a contributing author to both the "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology" and "The Production Handbook."
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Institute of Packaging Professionals
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In 27 years on GE's corporate staff, Expert worked on hundreds of on-site consulting projects. Since 1981 in his own consulting practice, he has worked on-site on over 100 projects involving transport packaging.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Corrugated packaging expert for consulting on corrugated packaging process and cost issues.
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Packaging expert for consulting on equipment packaging.
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Expert in protective packaging for consulting on methods to safely ship thermal solar collector.
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Expert in furniture manufacturing for consulting on redesign of current standards for packaging.
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Packaging design expert for consulting on design issues.
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Logistics expert for consulting on transportation of hazardous chemicals.
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Packaging expert for consulting on effective equipment packaging methods.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding your expert consulting needs.
Expert is available for consulting to corporate, legal and government clients.
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Expert is free.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Expert has acted as an expert witness in legal cases involving packaging, package handling, and shipping.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Expert in pallet packaging for consulting on sufficiency of pallet packaging.
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Expert witness unitizing and packaging pipe for shipment for consulting on Carney -- lawsuit.
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Packaging design engineer expert for consulting on Patent Infringement Litigation - shipping container construction and design.
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Pipe packaging expert for consulting on proper packaging for 50 ft plastic pipe accident reconstruction.
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Expert in personal injury liability for personal injury litigation lawsuit.
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Expert in packaging for consulting on loading which was alleged to be top-heavy.
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Trucking/packaging expert needed for consulting on transporting and palletization of large cooling units for computer industry.
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Stretch wrap packaging expert for consulting on using stretch wrap for aluminum extrusion returns to manufacturer.
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Expert in warehouse layout safety with respect to forklift traffic.
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Material handler marble packaging expert litigation for consulting on possible personal injury case.
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Packaging expert for consulting on consumer goods and products litigation.
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Expert for consulting on Packaging.
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Expert in packaging structural integrity for consulting on propriety of packaging cases of water that toppled causing personal injury.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding expert testimony,
litigation consulting and support, forensic services, or any related expert witness services.
A few litigation needs include product liability, personal injury, economic loss, intellectual property
(patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright), and insurance matters. Remember, your initial screening
call to speak with
Expert is free.
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He has been involved in several projects on market research for new products in the transport packaging area.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding your marketing research, industry research, and company
research needs. For research needs involving multiple experts or secondary research,
a Research Director can be assigned to coordinate the work into a custom report for you as a potentially quicker
and more cost effective alternative to doing this work yourself or hiring a boutique consultancy.
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Expert is free.
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Training/Seminars
He has given seminars on transport packaging and training courses on performance testing of transport packaging.
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Education
