Expert Details

Quality Control, Quality Assurance, ISO9000, Forensic Pathology, Products Liability

ID: 725431 Nevada, USA

Expert has over 40 years of progressively increasing experience in business beginning as an electronics technician, production planner, quality control engineer, quality manager, manufacturing manager, director of training and finally as a consultant, senior consultant, expert witness and now a preeminent expert witness. He has performed quality audits at over 500 companies in a myriad of industries but is most experienced in electromechanical manufacturing. He helped write the body of knowledge for the current professional certification of Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence.

He has written ten books on quality management and the beneficial application of ISO 9000 and has written dozens of magazine articles and columns on quality and manufacturing.

Expert has run a business process improvement and QM firm for over 25 years.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1969	Degree: BS Equivalency	Subject: Quality Control Engineering	Institution: NASA Mission Control, Houston

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1991 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: President	Department:
Responsibilities: Expert's eponymous firm conducts consulting in Business Process Improvement and Quality Management.

Government Experience

Years	Agency	Role	Description
Years: 1969 to 1980	Agency: NASA	Role: Contractor	Description: Quality Control Engineer at the Johnson Space Center

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Former Chair of the Quality Management Systems Committee of The American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Licenses / Certifications
Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence (ASQ) Certified Management Consultant, Institute of Management Consultants

Publications and Patents Summary
Expert has authored 10 books on Quality Management and Organizational Excellence.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Several federal and district court cases

Training / Seminars
Determining Specific Responsibility for the Consequences of Product Liability Litigation - CLE course approved by the Nevada State Bar Successful Internal Auditing to ISO9001:2000 Quality as a Profit Center

Marketing Experience
Quality Control Engineer at NASA's Mission Control Center from 1969 to 1980. Helped develop the current discipline of Quality Control Engineering

Other Relevant Experience
Developed and trademarked Forensic Business Pathology which is an innovative approach to greater success in Product Liability Litigation. It looks beyond the product to reveal responsibility for failure.

Fields of Expertise

acceptance test, American Society for Quality Control, auditing, business management, continuous quality improvement, electronics manufacturing, electronics manufacturing quality control, entrepreneurship, gap analysis, ISO 9000 series quality system standard, quality, quality auditing, quality control, quality engineering, quality evaluation, quality standard, supplier quality engineering, total quality control, vendor quality auditing, supplier quality assurance, manufacturing quality control, engineering quality assurance, business performance improvement, industry standard, business process management, business, cross-functional team, QS-9000 quality system requirements, first article inspection, acceptable quality level, electronics reworking, electronics test equipment, electronics manufacturing equipment, design-for-quality, electronics, household appliance quality, corporate strategic planning, acceptance sampling, electronics-industry concurrent engineering, electronics nondestructive testing, electronics manufacturing management, statistical quality control, defect, quality-by-design, electronic circuit, electronic assembled device, electronic device, risk management, electronic device reliability, electrooptic electronics sampling, business process re-engineering