EW #1674

EXPERT WITNESS SERVICES AND TESTIMONY

Availability for testimony as an Expert Witness in Civil and Criminal Cases for Defendant and Plaintiff in Federal, County and Municipal Courts and Depositions in Ohio and surrounding states.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering Option, Fenn College of
Engineering, Cleveland State University (1982)
Post Graduate Courses at The University of Toledo Masters of Business Administration
(Operations Management 1983 1984).
Factory and Laboratory Training: Republic Steel Corp., Ferry Cap & Set Screw Co., SIFCO Forge,
Inc., Walker Forge, Inc., Brush Wellman Engineered Materials, Inc., Concorde Castings, Inc.,
Atlas Steel Products Co..

INFORMAL EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Society for Metals (now ASM International), 1977 Sustaining Member since 1994
Forging Industry Association (FIA), Member 1981 1984
American Society for Quality Control (now ASQ), 1993 1998
Metal Service Center Institute (MSCI), Member 1994
Fabricators and Manufacturers Association (FMA), Member 1994
Precision Metalworking Association (PMA), Member 2000
ASHRAE (HVAC Engineers); Member 1999
The Tau Beta Pi Association, Inc. (National Engineering Honor Society), Member 1979

METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING & QUALITY ASSURANCE WORK EXPERIENCE

Experienced in the use of and analysis with the following equipment/instruments:

Hardness Testers (Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, Tukon Microhardness)
Universal Testing Machines (Compression, Uniaxial yield and tensile testing)
Creep and stress rupture testers (ambient and elevated temperatures)
Metallographic Preparation Equipment (Mounters, sanders, polishers, etchants)
Metallographs (Bausch & Lomb, Unitron, Nikon, Beuhler metallurgical microscopes)
Spectrographic and wet chemical analysis and corrosion test methods for metals
Low and High Cycle Fatigue Testers
All standard dimensional inspection tools and instruments

PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE

Have worked as Metallurgical Laboratory Technician, Assistant Metallurgist, Plant Metallurgist, Training Director, Chief Metallurgical Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager, Director of Quality Assurance and Metallurgy and Vice-President of Technology/Market Development.

Lab Technician: Republic Steel Corp., Cleveland, OH
Plant Metallurgist: Ferry Cap & Set Screw Co., Cleveland, OH
Plant Metallurgist; Chief Metallurgical Engineer: SIFCO Forge Group, Cleveland, OH
Quality Assurance Manager: Walker Forge, Inc., Racine and Clintonville, WI
Sr. Quality Engineer; Metallurgical Laboratory Manager: Brush Wellman Engineered Materials, Inc.
Director of Quality Assurance: Concorde Castings, Inc., Eastlake, OH
Director of Quality Assurance/Training; Director of Quality Assurance/Metallurgy; Vice-President of Technology/Market Development: Atlas Steel Products Co., Twinsburg, OH
President/CEO and Owner: Quality Technology Services, Chesterland, OH

EW #1674has spent the entire 29 years of his industrial metalworking career as a metallurgical and quality assurance specialist. He holds a BS in Engineering Science (Metallurgical Option) from the Fenn College of Engineering at Cleveland State University. He also studied for his MBA (Operations Management) at The University of Toledo, and has since completed at least two dozen continuing education and technical conference courses and seminars on various metallurgy and quality science topics.

Hehas worked in several metallurgical and quality assurance positions for some of the best known companies in their respective industries in the Cleveland area and other locations in the Midwest. He learned his early metallurgy in the welded carbon and stainless steel tubing business at Republic Steel Corporation on Clevelands east side as an entry level technician while attending CSU at night. He went on to hold Plant Metallurgist and Chief Metallurgist positions at Ferry Cap & Set Screw and SIFCO Forge, respectively, gaining knowledge in fasteners and forgings, as well as familiarity with alloy steels, aerospace superalloys and titanium.

Hisquality assurance career was expanded while the Director of Quality Assurance and Metallurgy at both Walker Forge in Wisconsin and Brush Wellman, Inc. in Elmore, OH, where a good deal of knowledge about beryllium and beryllium copper alloys and their metallurgy was gained. Eds experience in designing and implementing formal, documented quality assurance systems and training in basic statistical and metallurgical methods was honed in these positions.

QTS provides basic and advanced metallurgical and quality science consulting and training for a wide range of metalworking companies in the Midwest. These services range from material selection research and design considerations through processing, fabrication, welding, testing and failure analysis in the metallurgical arena, as well as quality assurance system design, training and pre-certification guidance. Heis a certified Lead Auditor for both ISO 9000 and QS-9000 quality systems.