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Expert in Product Safety Regulatory Compliance
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He has performed evaluation and testing for both regulatory safety standards such as UL, CSA and IEC standards and in component failure analysis. As a part of his regulatory expertise he has - evaluated and performed testing for shock hazards using body models defined in International Safety Standards.
- evaluated product related fire hazards both in regulatory and in field returned samples
- evaluated mechanical hazards in all new product development cases he worked extensively in finding issues early and working with design teams to develop cost effective and compliant solutions.
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He has performed complete safety review, testing and report generation for safety regulatory requirements for international safety standards on the manufacturing side and two different third party laboratory's side. He is an expert all aspects of the safety certification process (18 years) He has performed full reviews for products that have had field failures for manufacturers (5 years) Is a certified Product Safety Engineer through NARTE
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He has a strong background in the NEC and has served on the NFPA 79 standards writing committee and is involved extensively with IEC Technical Committee 66. He extensively knows product and product regulatory safety
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He is an expert on third party safety regulatory operation. He has personally performed
-He has performed reviews of other project engineer's work
-He has performed services sales
-he has performed field evaluations
-he has performed Follow up services engineering
-He was a project engineer and a senior project engineer personally performing , construction reviewing, report writing and testing for a variety of products including but not limited to:
*NFPA 79 equipment
*HVAC equipment (commercial and residential)
*Haz Loc installations
*ITE equipment He has worked closely with AHJs to evaluate and field label single installation equipment.
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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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Allentown, Pennsylvania;
Reading, Pennsylvania;
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;
Lancaster, Pennsylvania;
Trenton, New Jersey;
Camden, New Jersey;
Wilmington, Delaware;
Baltimore, Maryland;
and Alexandria, Virginia.
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1991
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BS
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Elecrtical Engineering
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Clarkson
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2004 to
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Product Safety Engineer
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He is responsible for Compliace certification, Lab testing, third party report writing. Evaluation and resolution to reported safety field complaints. host laboratory visits and maintain lab accredidation for third party lab client data submission (including ISO 17025)
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2002 to 2004
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Applica Consumer Products
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Product Safety Manager
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Evaluate the relative safety of new product development. Review field reported safety events.
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1998 to 2002
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EDD/MET Laboratories Southeast office
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Senior Project Engineer
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Perform and evaluate products to International product safety standards. Personally performed testing and report writing. Performed field evaluations, sales and engineering
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1997 to 1998
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Honeywell
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Reliability Engineer
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1991 to 1997
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ETL (Intertek) Laboratories
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Project Engineer
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Performed evaluation, report writing, testing, and compliance to US, Canadian and IEC standards
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Associations/Societies
* IEEE - Product Safety Engineering Society
* ASSE
* Member of IEC Technical Committee 66 for developent of IEC Laboratory Equipment Safety Standards
* Past Member of NFPA 79 safety standard for machines
* Past member of IAEI
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Licenses/Certifications
* PE - Delaware, North Carolina (inactive)
* CSP
* NSE
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Publications and Patents Summary
* - 5 articles published in various trade magazines
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Compliance Engineering Magazine
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- International Association of Electrical Inspectors News
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- IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society Newsletter, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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Internal Consultant for safety compliance with manufacturing and research/development product development teams for 7 years
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Internal Consultant for product safety/forensics for reported field safety issues with field resolution for 7 years
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Recent Client Requests:
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Ul expert for consulting on Certification pre-review.
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Expert for consulting on CSA regulations.
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Ul expert for consulting on UL listing.
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Underwriters Laboratory expert for consulting on the authority and limitations of UL.
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Product safety expert for consulting on power generation safety standards.
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Expert hazop texas for consulting on in HAZOP.
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Expert in electronics design and testing needed.
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Expert for consulting on Intrinsically safe certification for an alternate component.
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Product safety expert for consulting on PV inverter system electrical safety/testing.
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Power electronics expert for consulting on DC:DC boost converter battery charger.
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Expert for consulting on NRTL certification process for electrical medical devices.
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Expert in UL standards and/or CE requirements for litigation case.
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1991 to
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Worldwide
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Third party safety evaluations and certifications in laboratories and with manufacturers. This includes safety work in China, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, England, Mexico and Canada.
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2005 to
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Worldwide
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An expert on Technical Committee 66 working groups and maintenance teams for International product safety standards (IEC) development for Laboratory type equipment (UL/CSA/IEC 61010-1 and part two standards).
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2012 to
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US
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US TAG Technical Advisor to Technical Committee 66
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