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Expert in Manufacturing: Design Defects, Management Errors, Factory Automation & Robotics, Holograms, Lasers
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert has 25 years of industry experience in areas that include the manufacture of industrial lasers, the design and production of control and data collection systems for energy management, the research of alternate energy resources and systems including solar power, and the development of large-scale data handling systems.
He spent 18 years as a tenured professor at San Diego State University, where he taught production and operations management courses to undergraduate and graduate students. As an engineering and management consultant, he currently specializes in factory and manufacturing operations, management decision-making processes, and production and operations management (POM).
Expertise in:
Applications to Control Problems;
Business plans;
Data Collection;
Digital/analog data acquisition systems;
Electrical Engineering;
Factory Automation & Robotics;
Holograms;
Lasers;
Management;
Manufacturing Efficiency;
Mathematical Modeling;
Product development modeling;
Production & Operations Management;
Queuing & Linear Programming;
RF design;
Robotics;
Statistical Analysis;
Technology assessment.
Holds patents in BTU Meters, Solar Heat Collectors,
Solar Energy Transfer Systems (With Protection Against Freezing),
Methods For Providing Representation For Needed Work Force In Store,
Systems For Generating a Hologram.
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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: San Diego, California;
Long Beach, California;
Santa Ana, California;
Anaheim, California;
Riverside, California;
Huntington Beach, California;
San Bernardino, California;
Chula Vista, California;
Garden Grove, California;
and Oceanside, California.
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Honors |
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1953
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B.S.
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Electrical Engineering
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University of Connecticut
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Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
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1972
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M.S.
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Environmental Systems
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West Coast University, Los Angeles
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1984
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Ph.D.
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Automation (Robotics)
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Brunel University, London
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1984 to 2004
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California State University (SDSU)
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Information & Decision Systems Dept.
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Professor
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Full Professor, Taught both under gradate and gradate students. Production and Operations Management and Systems Analysis
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1970 to 1981
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Rho Sigma Inc
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Management & Production
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CEO & Chairman of the BOD
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Founder and CEO. Employed about 80 engineers and manufacturing personal .
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1967 to 1970
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Cal-Tech,
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Jet Propulson Lab
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Research Engineer
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Developed Solar energy control systems
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Associations/Societies
Life member of IEEE
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Licenses/Certifications
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of California.
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has over 60 publications in scholarly journals, has 5 patents and a couple of books including one major seller in the field of Electronic Warfare.
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1946 to 1949
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US Army, Signal Corps
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Instructor
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Taught electronics to GI's at Fort Monmouth
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Once he sees a solution to the problem at hand (and generally that is not done in a vacuum ) he goes over it until he and his client(s) all agree on the solution.
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Manufacturing process faults; David N. Tarlow Esq, Coggan & associates: Analysis of manufacturing data
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Misrepresentation of sales and inventory;Wolf Holdenstein Adler Freeman & Herz.Children's Place:Review of data
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Litigation over manufacturing scheduling process;Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach:Analysis of production data
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Recent Client Requests:
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Process controls expert for consulting on biomedical control optimization for a temperature control system algorithm.
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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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As a professor emeritus, he has had considerable experience developing a point of view for my audience, holding their interest, and answering many questions. From a technical point of view he has dealt with complex problem and required to present the information in a simple and understandable fashion.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Expert with experience with conveyors and/or food processing
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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
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Expert is free.
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1982 to 1984
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UK
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Research on Robotics and PH.D.
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1995 to 1997
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Viet Nam
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Taught graduate classes as a visiting professor in Hanoi
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Considerable experience dealing with electronic design, testing and producing in large quantities in my factory.
Rho Sigma Inc. designed and manufactured many hundreds of solar system controls per week. Inventory control and quality control are very critical factors in the manufacturing process.
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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.
Remember, your initial screening call to speak with
Expert is free.
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Training/Seminars
Twenty plus years
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection As Founder and President of Rho Sigma Inc., he initially had to set up the entire supply chain management process.
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Other Skills and Services
From the mid 1960's to the founding Rho Sigma he was employed by ITT. He started there as a department head and ended up as a Vice President of a 2500 many division or the company. He left to start his own company.
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