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Expert in Magnetic Recording and Data Analysis
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hard disk expert
hard-disk technology expert |
Expert has over 20 years of experience in the development of magnetic disks for hard disk drives. His early experience includes work with the spin coating of particulate disks for a number of rigid disk cartridges, packs, and fixed disk drives. His recent experience includes the development of plated and sputtered rigid media using any of numerous magnetic materials. He is familiar with all disk processes, including substrate machining and grinding, electroless nickel plating, grinding, polishing, cleaning, and sputtering a variety of underlayers (magnetic materials and top coats). He is also experienced with buffing, lubrication, burnishing, glide testing, and certification procedures. Expert was personally trained and worked with Dr. W. Edward Deming. He used Deming's concepts to improve disk yield and reduce process variation. He is also knowledgeable of statistical analysis and design of experiments, which he employed in the development of computer disks. |
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floppy disk expert
floppy disk technology expert |
Over the course of several years, Expert was responsible for the development of 8-, 5-, and 3.5-inch floppy disks at Nashua Corporation. He was personally involved with selecting and qualifying diskette media in web and punched cookie format. He is familiar with all floppy disk specifications, testing, and the processing procedures of lamination, cutting, primary folding, punching, burnishing, certification, formatting, end folding, and packaging. He has worked with OEMs and end users in identifying and correcting floppy disk problems. |
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dip coating expert |
Expert has several years of experience developing and using dip coating technology for lubricating magnetic particulate and thin film disks. He developed extensive process control, surface characterization, and analytical measurement technology to maintain coating variations within Angstroms of the target thickness. He also applied this technology to coat organic photo-conductor (OPC) drums with three individual chemical firms.
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hard disk drive expert |
Having worked with nearly all of the disk drive manufacturers worldwide (including extensive experience with those in Japan), Expert can answer a variety of questions on disk drive technology. As a supplier of media to these manufacturers, he was frequently asked to help solve disk drive problems. His experience includes contamination analysis and control, servo-writing, defect identification and analysis, and reliability testing and improvement. He has a working knowledge of CRC, ECC, error handling schemes, Weibull distribution analysis, and data interfaces. His most recent experience including the specification, testing and qualification of GMR heads and sputtered media for desktop hard disk drives.
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engineering database expert |
Expert has extensive experience in writing Access and Excel macros for automatically gathering, analyzing, and graphing engineering data. An example was a one-page summary of a development work order that listed averages and standard deviations of 72 key variables. Hyperlinks were provided to allow instant access to over 50 graphs for further investigation of parameters that were of concern. A master summary of all work orders for a program was also updated whenever an individual work order was analyzed. |
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tape recording analysis expert |
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Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Boston, Massachusetts; Worcester, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; Lowell, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Brockton, Massachusetts; New Bedford, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Providence, Rhode Island.
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1976
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M.S.
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Engineering Management (Computer Systems Minor)
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Northeastern University
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1966
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B.S.
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Physics
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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2000 to
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(Undisclosed Consulting Company)
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President
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Expert consults in magnetic recording and data base analysis to improve product development and production yields.
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1995 to 2000
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Maxtor Corporation
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Head/Media Development
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Senior Director
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He was responsible for the design, testing, qualification and ramp of advanced GMR heads and sputtered media for desktop disk drives.
He was a key member of 12 management teams responsible for major technical and business decisions for individual disk drive programs achieving densities of over 14 Gb/in^2.
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1993 to 1995
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Nashua Corporation
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Central Research and Development
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Director of Technology
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Expert led the introduction of 17 new products/processes ranging from water-based masking tape and label adhesives to direct thermal coatings and compounding room for Graphics and Label divisions.
He developed and introduced new product development guidelines to Central R&D and all divisions. The guidelines were implemented on all current development programs.
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1991 to 1993
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Nashua Corporation
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Nashua Thin Film Disk Division
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Vice President of R&D
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Expert led the R&D team in the development, qualification, and ramp of Nashua's first high coercivity 65 mm disk. He introduced three new technologies/processes to meet the needs of greater read/write and durability performance.
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1982 to 1991
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Nashua Corporation
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Nashua Oxide Disk Division
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Technical Director
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Expert was a key member of the management team that led Nashua CPD to become the market leader in the oxide disk industry and the biggest exporter of oxide disks to Japan.
He was personally trained by, and worked with, Dr. W. Edwards Deming in identifying key variables and reducing process variation to lower costs and satisfy the ever demanding customer requirements.
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1969 to 1982
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Nashua Corporation
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Central Research and Oxide Division
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Physicist/Group Leader
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He designed computer controlled electronic disk certification and process equipment. This included data collection and statistical analysis capability.
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Professional Appointments
Expert was a speaker and panel member at the Rigid Disk/Hard Media Technology Review in both 1986 and 1987.
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1966 to 1969
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U. S. Navy - TACRON 21
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Lieutenant
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As an Electronics Material Officer, Expert was responsible for control of aircraft during amphibious landings.
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Expert collected production yield and variable data using Access. The data was analyzed using Excel and graphed using Excel or Jandel. Daily, weekly, and special reports were issued as required.
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He wrote Access and Excel macros for use by company employees to automate gathering and reformatting of error data.
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Expert supervised the writing of a magnetic tape test program. He analyzed and plotted resulting data to show performance differences of various tape drives and suppliers.
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As a member of the Intota consultant network,
Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as a Magnetic Recording Consultant and Data Analysis Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company,
or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract.
Ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars, by simply submitting
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product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation,
and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as a Magnetic Recording Expert Witness and Data Analysis Expert Witness.
Intota provides attorneys and legal professionals the opportunity to ask an expert initial screening questions and
ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.
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1982 to 1995
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Japan
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Expert has extensive experience qualifying and supplying hard disks to Japanese drive manufacturers.
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1997 to 2000
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Singapore
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He worked with a manufacturing plant in Singapore for the startup and yield improvement of eight new products.
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Expert serves as a resource to
Intota Market Research Services
for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to
Magnetic Recording and Data Analysis.
Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for
custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and
consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative
and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools
used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary
research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience locating vendors of floppy disks, hard disks, hard disk processing equipment, test equipment, and raw materials.
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