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Expert in Contamination and Electrostatic Discharge Control
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert has over 25 years experience in manufacturing engineering. Starting at IBM in 1982, he was part of a group called Advanced Manufacturing Engineering. This group was responsible for developing the factory of the future and included cleanroom design, materials, surface treatment and cleaning technology development, robotics engineering and numerical control machining. From there he went on to lead a team of 6 engineers and 5 technicians solving problems in high volume manufacturing for IBM locations across the globe. His subsequent positions at Seagate Technology, Micropolis and Western Digital demonstrate both his leadership ability and technical acumen. He has taken on responsibility for solving problems outside of his primary areas with great success. He is known as the go-to guy when engineering teams struggle with especially complex problems. And he does this without demanding recognition, but rather promotes the contributions of his team members.
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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: Los Angeles, California;
San Diego, California;
Long Beach, California;
Santa Ana, California;
Anaheim, California;
Riverside, California;
Glendale, California;
Huntington Beach, California;
San Bernardino, California;
and Chula Vista, California.
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1971
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B.S.
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Physical Chemistry
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University of Maryland
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ACS Certified
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2007 to 2008
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Western Digital
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Contamination and Cleaning Development
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Senior Manager
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He is responible for contamination control and cleaning process development for the slider fabrication portion of magnetic recording heads for Western Digital.
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2000 to 2006
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Quality Assurance
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Senior Engineer
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He managed the electrostatic discharge control program.
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1997 to 1997
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Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions
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Marketing and Sales
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Senior Director
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Lead technical sales presentation to current and potential customers for LWS products and services. Captive consultant for LWS customers, consulting in contamination and ESD control, materials science, lean six-sigma approaches.
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1996 to 1997
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Micropolis (USA), L.L.C.
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Engineering
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Senior Director
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He was responsible for contamination control, electrostatic discharge control, materials science and failure analysis as Micropolis entered into the use of magnetoresistive recording head technology into disk drives for the first time.
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1994 to 1996
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Seagate Technology
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Quality and Customer Assurance
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Senior Director
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He was corporate-wide leader of contamination control. Advised senior management on materials science labs, new technology acquisition and identification/recruitment of strategic hires.
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1982 to 1994
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IBM, San Jose
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Contamination Control
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Senior Engineer
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Lead contamination scientist for the disk drive division. Memeber of the corporate contamination control committee. San Jose site ESD coordinator.
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1979 to 1982
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IIT Research Institute
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Particle Technology
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Senior Scientist
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Principal investigator on several government and industrial contracts. Customers include the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Air Force, DARPA, General Motors, Braun, etc.
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1972 to 1979
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Gillette Research Institute
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Personal Care Products
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Advisory Scientist
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Lead efforts to eliminate CFC use in personal care aerosol products. Principal investigator on several contracts for the Harris Research Lab division of Gillette.
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Associations/Societies
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST)
American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Electrostatic Discharge Association (ESDA)
International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA)
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Licenses/Certifications
Certified in lean six sigma engineering by Villanova University
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Awards/Recognition
Numerous technical recognitions and awards. including IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and USEPA Pollution prevention Award
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Publications and Patents Summary
Over 50 technical publications and over 30 presentations. 11 patent applications. 7 IBM technical disclosure bulletins.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- IEEE Interscience, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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- Elsevier
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- Unknown at this time
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- VSP, Lieden
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1972 to 1972
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US Department of Agriculture
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Technician
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Synthesize, purify and characterize experimental insect attractants for use as alternates to conventional pesticides.
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Consult on the manufacture of disk drives and on the control of suppliers for disk drive components. Consultation on semiconductor manufacture. Most importantly, consultation on flat pane display manufacture when no out sider was allowed into the factory. All observations held in strict confidence.
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Consult on the quality issues and corrective actions for media suppliers (Fuji Electric, StorMedia, Komag, etc.) Internal consultation on media manufacture at ST factories.
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Consult to chip manufacturers in Taiwan and Singapore. Multiple manufacturers involved. Facilities, process and design reviews to determine causes of yield loss and customer returns. This included audits and analysis of specialty chemical manufacturing, precision/specialty chemical suppliers and indirect materials suppliers.
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Elimination of J-panel body corrosion for GM. In one visit, he identified the root cause and advised a short term work-around to alleviate the problem.
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Identified source of contamination and provided corrective action within 30 minutes at a media manufacturing facility in Singapore for Seagate ( after leaving Seagate to be come an independent consultant). This problem had been in existence, without diagnosis or solution for over 10 days.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Particle reduction expert for consulting on a Particle Reduction Project.
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Manufacturing assembly line expert for consulting on uncommon production techniques.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Expert witness on personal injury case for Gillette. Consulted on product damage case for insurance carrier.
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2007 to 2009
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Thailand, Ayutthaya
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Manage the contamination and cleaning development effort.
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1982 to 1994
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Western Europe
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Multiple trips and assignments, including several that extended to 3 weeks or more. Advise, as directed by IBM senior management, engineering in Mainz, Germany, Havant, England and Essonnes, France, on implementation of manufacturing protocols. Where significant yield loss of field failures were observed, he was called upon to assist engineers in Germay to solve problems. These efforts extended to assisting efforts in Havant, England, and Berlin, Germany.
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2000 to 2006
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Western Europe
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Conduct site certification surveys and conduct training classes at NASA customers for spacecraft operations in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain.
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French
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German
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He is widely recognized as one of the top 5 engineers/scientists in the disciplines of contamination control/ESD control in the world. He is a frequent invited speaker at technical conferences due to his presentations, style and affability.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Training/Seminars
A representative list of titles includes: Getting Clean Parts and Getting Parts Clean, Justifying a Continuous Monitoring System, Applications of Fine Particles Technology, Choosing and Using Gloves, Contamination and ESD control in High-Technology Manufacturing, Ruggedization and Gage Capability of Indirect Cleanliness Measurement Methods.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Six years experience in Procurement Quality Engineering at IBM. Contributing engineer at Seagate, Micropolis and Western Digital. As the lead ESD control engineer he was responsible for investigating and correcting ESD control problems at both suppliers and customers for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory division of NASA.
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Other Skills and Services
Certified by Villanova University as a Lean Six Sigma Engineer.
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Education
