Scope & Range of Services
Professional Background: Six years assisting attorneys
and others as an Expert Witness in product Liability cases
and other matters involving all manner of Laundry and / or
Drycleaning equipment, preceded by Thirty-nine years varied
experience in Technical Management, Quality
Control,
Design,
Production
and Project Engineering with the firms listed below.
Technical Director - Bermil Industries Corporation
461 Doughty Boulevard
Inwood, New York 11796
1977-1998
Quality Control Manager - Signal-Stat
Corporation
Brooklyn, New York
1966-1968
Production Manager - Litton Industries
Mount Vernon, New York
1966-1968
Electrical Engineer - Ideal Corporation
Brooklyn, New York
1964-1966
Project Engineer - Markite Corporation
New York, New York
1959-1966
Specific duties:
Technical Director - Held technical responsibility for
commercial laundry and dry cleaning equipment imported and
sold in the United States and Canada by largest such importer.
Worked directly with overseas manufacturers in the design
and construction of the equipment as it dealt with Safety
Standards and U.S. approvals.
Personally acted as technical representative
of the company in numerous lawsuits by preparing Answers to
Interrogatories and appearing and testifying at Depositions
or Examination Before Trial, as well as actual Trials.
Additionally, accepted an invitation from Underwriters Laboratories
to serve as Industry Representative on the Industry Advisory
Group for Laundry Equipment, Coin-Operated and Commercial.
Quality Control Manager - Instituted
and managed formal Quality Assurance program at Signal-Stat
Corporation, Flasher Division, as approved by General Motors
and Chrysler Corporation. Wrote Quality Control manual, selected
and/or designed all Test Equipment, determined in-process
test and inspection procedures and trained in-process inspectors
from Direct Labor personnel.
Production Engineering- Maintained technical
supervision over entire Production Section at the Precision
Potentiometer Division of Litton Industries. Personally trained
personnel for highly technical assembly and calibration operations
and selected equipment for same. Developed new techniques
for manufacturing and testing of product and performed trouble-shooting
duties in all areas of manufacture.
Electrical Engineering- Designed controls
for automated equipment during period of conversion from largely
manual assembly to highly automated type at Ideal Corporation.
Was additionally responsible for performance of all electrical
technicians and test personnel and also engaged in new product
design and evaluation.
Project Engineering- Engaged in every
phase of engineering, including research and development,
product design, product test, customer liaison, field engineering,
manufacturing engineering and vendor evaluation at Markite
Corporation, a highly technical aerospace company which relied
exclusively on the Project Engineering system and devoted
much time to training its engineers. Additional personal duties
included trouble-shooting all long-running projects supervising
a Product Test lab.
Education:
The Cooper Union School of Engineering
New York, New York- BSEE
Honors: Dean's List- 1961, 1962, and 1963
Professional Membership:
Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
(I.E. E. E. )
American Society for Quality Control (A. S. Q. C. )