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Expert in Ceramic & Composite Materials Development, Processing and Commercialization
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He has a comprehensive ceramic component manufacturing experience. This encompasses everything from ceramic materials and process development, production scale up and running of a production operation, as well as marketing and sales, excelling in all areas. He has worked in materials processing and industrial scale up for over 25 years with engineering, operations and program management for the past 20 years.
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He has worked extensively and consulted in markets focused on corrosion/erosion environments. An example of this was the work he did as a consultant with also applied at DuPont Corporation where he was a contract consultant managing several parallel multi-group programs in the chemical processing industry. These programs focused on solving technical processing material problems, addressing production yields and new marketing product requests associated with high temperature Chlorine and Fluorine reactor environments. He developed new chemically resistant refractory compositions and tested them out in coordinated lab and production units. He then worked with several vendor suppliers to commercialize and scale up these materials and design them into the current process reactors. This work successfully extended the "uptime" of these specialty process reactors and contributed to second generation reactor designs.
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He is experienced in working and designing dryers and drying technology as it applies of ceramic materials & components including: 1) Conventional drying
2) Micowave and RF drying
3) Humidity drying
4) Chemical drying
5) Freeze drying
6) Batch drying
7) Spray drying
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With a PhD in Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers and 25 years of industrial experience, he has a comprehensive ceramic materials and processing background,with strong applications focus. He is a proven innovator with extensive technical and business management experience in established as well as entrepreneurial environments, both domestic and international. This encompasses everything from materials and process development, program initiation, contract authorship, production scale up and running of a production operation, as well as
marketing and sales, excelling in all areas. He has worked in ceramic materials processing and industrial scale up for over 25 years with engineering, operations and program management for the past 20 years.
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He has extensive knowledge and experience in erosion theory, testing and material design optimized for erosive environments. Much of my work focused on ceramic for hard rock mining and minerals processing, for which he wrote a chapter in an ASM handbook. Erosion testing expertise include:
1) Dry erosion (sand blast)
2) Slurry erosion
3) Contact abration
4) Friction measurement
5) Surface finish measurement
6) Hardness testing
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With expertise in ceramic sintering, glass, fiberglass, glass bonding and glazing, he has worked on and has experience with a wide range of glass and glaze systems, developing glaze and glass bonding technology for a variety of material systems. These range from pottery glazes on whiteware bodies, to glass to metal seals, to glass bonding of SiC materials.
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With a PhD in Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers and 25 years of industrial experience, he has a comprehensive ceramic materials and processing background,with strong applications focus, especially in heat treatents and firing technology and equipment design. He has designed heat treating ovens and kilns with electric, gas and oil heat sources with atmosphere as well as vacuum and inductive capabilities. He has worked with, designed, procured, built and installed kilns with a wide variey of designs and needs. He has worked closely with most of the leading kiln suppliers and design houses for this kind of equipment.
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He has been involved in commercializing new ceramic material and processing technology for over 25 years. He is a proven innovator with extensive technical and business management experience in established as well as entrepreneurial environments, both domestic and international. This encompasses everything from materials and process development, program initiation, contract authorship, production scale up and running of a production operation, as well as marketing and sales, excelling in all areas. He has worked in ceramic materials processing and industrial scale up for over 25 years with engineering, operations and program management for the past 20 years. These are all key aspects to commercialization of technology.
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With a PhD in Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers and 25 years of R&D as well as industrial experience, he has a comprehensive ceramic & composites materials and processing background,with strong applications focus. This includes a good understanding ot composite materials, processing and their limitations.
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His scale up, process development engineering and operational management experience was demonstrated at Alanx Products, a 30 person SiC ceramic and polymer composite manufacturing company focused on the wear and corrosion market. Alanx was a joint venture spin off from Lanxide Corp where he had worked to develop the technology. He worked to establish this JV and became its technical and operational leader.
While with Alanx, he obtained international business and marketing experience that included negotiating and overseeing the establishment of two international joint venture companies, one German and a second
Japanese. He transferred technology and trained design, production and marketing teams from those countries. With these teams, he designed and marketed product at new foreign customer bases and created manufacturing plant layouts for future scale up efforts.
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He has been involved in new material, processing and product devlepment my whole career. His process & materials development and program management experience includes my work at Lanxide Corporation, a start up entrepreneurial company that developed and marketed new patented SiC ceramic, polymer
and metal material composite systems. Process development, equipment design and efficient manufacturing were key to making this technology viable. This work involved development, scale up and salesmanship
of SiC materials based technologies, establishing new market interests and accounting for spent funds. Lanxide spawned six joint venture entities as well as numerous national and international licensees, many of which he played a part in establishing and maintaining.
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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: New York, New York;
Yonkers, New York;
Newark, New Jersey;
Jersey City, New Jersey;
Paterson, New Jersey;
Elizabeth, New Jersey;
Bridgeport, Connecticut;
New Haven, Connecticut;
Stamford, Connecticut;
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1983
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PhD
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Ceramic Engineering
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Rutgers College of Engineering
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1982
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MS
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Ceramic Engineering
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Rutgers College of Engineering
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1978
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BS
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Chemistry
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Rutgers College
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2005 to 2006
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Starfire Systems
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Program Manager
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Program management and business development in aerospace, semiconductor and industrial applications utilizing preceramic polymer for high temperature ceramic & polymer matrix composites. Responsibilities & technical successes include:
- Management of $5.5 million aerospace & DoD programs
- Awarded 3 Phase 1 SBIR programs, 1 more pending
- Development of improved ultra-high temperature composites for TPS applications
- Development & marketing of flame resistant coatings for fiberglass fabrics
- Identification of business opportunities and marketing to customers & investors
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2004 to 2005
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M Cubed Technologies
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Director of Product Development
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Technical development, scale up and marketing of new ceramic-metal composite technologies for use in multiple markets including:semiconductor, armor, wear, thermal management and precision structures
- Successfully transferred technology from parent factory for prototype facility in CT
- Established new markets & customers in semiconductor, thermal management & wear
- Developed metal brazing & glass bonding technology for large MI components
- Designed & created company brochures & web site for enhanced marketing
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1996 to 2004
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Pratt & Whitney
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Technology Manager
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Development of polymer & ceramic composite materials & coating systems used in military & commercial applications. Coordination of composite materials strategic planning activities for turbine engine related programs.
- Designed & implemented 30% cost reduction on F119 coatings
- Authored a PRDA 7 proposal on high temperature polymer resin development
- Managed special development programs in coatings & composite materials
- Established blade repair programs for Ti and Ni Integrally Bladed Rotors (IBR)
- Established funding & managed IBR low cost fabrication technologies
- Spearheaded programs for high temp DRA Aluminum & ?Ti composites
- Established programs for improved abradable rub seal for military engine fans
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1995 to 1996
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Dupont Corporation
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Engineering Consultant
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Improved corrosion resistant and refractory materials of construction used in TiO2 white pigment production and fluoropolymer technology.
- Set up lab tests that simulated reactor environments for comparative
erosion/corrosion testing of ceramic and metallic materials
- Established vendor alliances for co-development of new materials
- Implemented in-plant tests of new refractory materials
- Developed new proprietary corrosion resistant refractory compositions
Patents pending. Licensed the technology for these new materials
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1988 to 1995
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Alanx Products, Inc.
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Technical & Operations Manager
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Oversaw all areas of production, facilities, safety, and quality implementation. Directed all technical development and engineering.
- Increased capacity to handle 4 times the volume
- Reduced costs by over 50%
- Converted process and equipment from electric to gas power
- Improved ergonomics and product flow through plant layout redesign
- Incorporated computer based scheduling in production
- Significantly improved on-time deliveries
- Decreased number of days in manufacturing cycle by over 2.5x
- Transferred and scaled up ceramic, metal, and polymer matrix composite technologies from lab to production scale operation for market driven abrasion resistant products and applications.
- Directed three R&D development and production support teams
- Designed layout of production, office, and lab facilities
- Designed and purchased all lab and production process equipment
- Hired and trained personnel for production, technical, and office staffs
- Authored and instituted QC, SPC, and SOP procedures
- Developed and commercialized ceramic filled polymer composites
- Designed ceramic composite lined process slurry pumps and hydrocycones
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1985 to 1988
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Lanxide Corporation
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Senior Research Engineer
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Engineered microstructural and fabrication process control of new ceramic and metal matrix composite technologies.
- Pioneered new fabrication techniques for net-shaped preforms utilizing
ceramic and metal powders in aqueous and non-aqueous systems
- Designed and patented ballistic resistant armor systems (DARPA)
- Formed and led multi-group process and materials task force for process
development and company wide problem solving
- Developed composites with improved corrosion/erosion resistance for
industrial products division
- Awarded 10 key material and process patents
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1983 to 1985
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Arwood Corporation
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Research Ceramic Engineer
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Process development and production support for investment (lost wax) casting of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys.
- Developed injection molded non-ferrous ceramic core leachable in water.
Awarded several patents for this product
- Improved on ceramic shell high temperature permeability and strength
- Spearheaded program for reclamation of ceramic materials
- Developed rheological controls on ceramic slurries
- Improved plaster based solid mold investment mixes
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2006 to 2013
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(Undisclosed)
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President
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CeraMaterials markets highest quality & lowest priced graphite insulation, ceramic insulation, CFC's, graphite foil, moly & tungsten products, machined graphite, ceramics and all furnace related products.CeraMaterials™ is a customer focused consulting and sales representative company providing technically based solutions and services with engineered ceramic, metals and polymer materials and processing. Our goal is to aid the research, development and commercialization of products for industrial customers through contract research, educational consulting, strategic material & partnership brokering, proposal writing and industrial processing.
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Associations/Societies
American Ceramic Society
American Society of Materials
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Publications and Patents Summary
Over 20 published articles, 15 patents, and over 50 presentations at scientific and trade conferences.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- ASM Engineering Materials Handbook
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- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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Successful product development with electrical porcelain company to help them diversify into high volume profitable market areas, expanding their business and utilizing existing unit operations, labor and floor space.
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Product & process development with start up company utilizing their processing know-how into new material, satifying existing market pull for rapid successful commercialization.
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Process and product scale up from a lab operation to production for technology developed at a university lab.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Expert in ceramic formulation for consulting on ceramic bead product development.
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Ceramic systems expert for consulting on Tungsten/Iron shielding.
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Ceramic engineer expert witness for consulting on Ceramic Propp.
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Expert for consulting on ceramic tubes for rotary calciner process.
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Expert in two stage sintering nano ceramics for consulting on transparent mgal2o4 by slip casting & sintering.
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Expert in castings for consulting on OFHC copper and in magnesium alloys or a phosphate bonded mold.
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Expert in slip casting for consulting on slip casting methods and procedures.
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Steel boiler expert for consulting on cupola liner structure failures.
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Expert needed for consulting on lamination of films into glazing.
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Expert in automotive exhaust sensor for consulting on sensor package that can withstand exhaust temperatures.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Materials
1) Advanced engineered materials with emphasis on ceramics & composite materials
2) Ceramic matrix composite fabrication, interface coatings & processing
3) Preceramic polymer & PIP (Polymer Infiltration & Pyrolysis) processing
4) Traditional (sintered) & melt infiltrated ceramics
5) Metals casting (ferrous and non-ferrous), ceramic cores & molds
6) High temperature polymers (polyimids)
7) Refractories (ultrahigh temperature & TPS materials)
8) Wear products (erosion/corrosion resistance materials)
9) Radar signature control materials & additives Processing & Services
1) Materials characterization & development
2) Process development, documentation and training
3) Processing equipment design, specification, sourcing and installation (new or used)
4) Shape making capabilties (slip casting, pressing, injection molding, FRP, etc.)
5) Brainstorming materials, product, process and marketing ideas or changes
6) Cost reduction studies and implementation
7) Process scale up & commercialization
8) Safety review procedures for lab & production settings
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Expert for consulting on Declaration Needed for Patent Prosecution Matter.
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Material science expert testimony for consulting on armor plating and chemical composition of same.
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I have industry expertise & experience in the following areas:
1) Ceramics & ceramic composites
2) Wear and corrosion
3) Aerospace
4) Semiconductor
5) Chemical processing
6) Metal casting
7) Thermal Management
8) Armor
9) Refractories
10) Cement
11) Catalytic supports (automotive) I have a comprehensive composites materials and processing
background,with strong applications focus. I am a proven innovator
with extensive technical and business management experience in
established as well as entrepreneurial environments, both domestic
and international. This encompasses everything from materials
and process development, program initiation, contract authorship,
production scale up and running of a production operation, as well as
marketing and sales, excelling in all areas. I have worked in
materials processing and industrial scale up for over 25 years with
engineering, operations and program management for the past 20 years
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection My process & materials development and program management experience includes my work at Lanxide Corporation, a start up entrepreneurial company that developed and marketed new patented SiC ceramic, polymer
and metal material composite systems. Process development, equipment design and efficient manufacturing were key to making this technology viable. This work involved development, scale up and salesmanship
of SiC materials based technologies, establishing new market interests and accounting for spent funds. Lanxide spawned six joint venture entities as well as numerous national and international
licensees, many of which I played a part in establishing and maintaining. My scale up, process development engineering and operational management experience was with Alanx Products, a 30 person SiC ceramic and polymer composite manufacturing company focused on the wear and corrosion market. Alanx was a spin off from Lanxide. In the technical and operations management roles, I was responsible for engineering scale up of the ceramic, metal and polymer matrix composite technologies into production, exceeding all technical,
budget and production goals and objectives. I did this by optimizing the processing steps and establishing process control as well as
product improvement through standardization and documentation of procedures. I concurrently cut costs of manufacturing in half, decreased the delivery times dramatically and increased overall plant capacity to over 4 times the volume with minimum of capital expenditure. I am responsible for a long list of innovations and improvements associated with this technology and equipment design. This includes converting the composite heat processing from electric to gas power, resulting in increased throughput, improved quality, and lower production costs. All materials were successfully commercialized into a profitable business within a 3-year window. I
hired and mentored a team of engineers in all areas of production and marketing. We supported the marketing efforts by working closely with all customers, aligning the product and process capability with customer needs. This included numerous field visits to customer sites to fully understand their needs, with presentations and publications supporting the product and marketing effort. While with Alanx, I obtained international business and marketing experience that included negotiating and overseeing the establishment of two international joint venture companies, one German and a second Japanese. I transferred technology and trained design, production and marketing teams from those countries. With these teams, I designed and marketed product at new foreign customer bases and created manufacturing plant layouts for future scale up efforts.
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Other Skills and Services
My materials problem solving and project management expertise was also applied at DuPont Corporation where I was a contract consultant managing several parallel multi-group programs in the chemical processing industry. These programs focused on solving technical processing material problems, addressing production yields and new marketing product requests associated with high temperature Chlorine and Fluorine reactor environments. I developed new chemically resistant refractory compositions and tested them out in coordinated lab and production units. I then worked with several vendor suppliers to commercialize and scale up these materials and design them into the current process reactors. This work successfully extended the "uptime" of these specialty process reactors and contributed to second generation reactor designs. My work with Pratt & Whitney focusing on project engineering, proposal solicitation, program management and materials development roles in the fabrication of military and commercial turbine engines. My track record in establishing, promoting and obtaining funding for new design and materials technologies at Pratt has been excellent. This includes authoring or co-authoring and winning numerous government and internally funded program proposals and contracts. At M Cubed Technologies, I transferred, scaled up and improved SiC based melt infiltrated composite technology from one facility to a new pilot plant, while supporting the marketing group in establishing and growing new markets in semiconductor, thermal management and wear resistance. This included plant layout, design, purchase and installation of equipment, process documentation, cross training of employees and qualification of the commercial process. During this time, I made numerous presentations to customers and prospective clients. The most recent position with Starfire Systems involved program management, process & materials development and funding establishment for new patented SiC preceramic and high temperature polymer materials.
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