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Reactive Metals
A significant portion of Expert's career centered on the reduction of titanium tetrachloride, using magnesium and/or sodium to obtain titanium metal. In particular, one portion was involved with the high-capacity production of molten titanium directly via a flow reactor. This…
Photodetectors for Infrared and LIDAR Sensors and Imaging; Nanomaterials Synthesis and Applications
Expert holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with work pioneering the development and application of quantum dots to mid-wave infrared sensing and imaging. He has 15 years of R&D experience with novel materials primarily in infrared (mid-and short-wave…
Welding Engineering: Application, Arcs, Laser, Base Metal, Troubleshooting, Pressure, Nuclear, Code
Expert's welding career began in a family-owned welding and radiator repair shop. He progressed to welding on offshore oil and gas platform structures, processing facilities, and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico while an undergraduate engineering student. As a graduate…
Digital Transformation: Risk and Engineering
Working with global and international clients and organizations to address emerging, evolving and rapidly changing enterprise risk, governance, risk and compliance, operational risk and resilience, business continuity, crisis management, organizational and digital transformation, as well as control system testing, review,…
Materials Technology, Powder Metallurgy, Advanced Ceramics, Process & Product Development, R&D, Lean
25+ years of experience in successfully managing and spearheading R&D and Operations projects to completion. Developed new products and processes, led cross-functional teams, project management and implementation, mentored subordinates and peers, provided team building and leadership, problem solving skills, and…
Petroleum Processing Chemistry and Oil Products Compositional Chemistry
Expert was the lead process chemist supporting Acid Gas Amine Treating units in Shell US and Canadian Refineries and for Shell Canada Gas Plants. Expert also provided technical support Canadian Gas plants operating Shell licienced Amine systems (SCOTT and Sulfinol-D…
Water Purification by Ion Exchange
A graduate of the University of Maine with BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering, Expert has 40+ years of product specification and equipment design experience in various technologies of water and waste water purification. He has written and /or…
Electronic Material Processing, Chemical-Physical Analysis, Device Modeling, Biomedical Sensors
Expert has over thirty years experience in the design, micro-fabrication, analysis and modeling of electronic devices, transistors, and sensor arrays. He has extensive experience with the advanced processes for device fabrication: depositing the metal electrode and contact layers by sputtering,…
Plasma Cleaning and Treatment, Plasma sources (Magnetron, Hollow cathode, DBD amd others), Medical devises, Metals, Polymers, Thin Film and Surface Technologies, Deposition by Sputtering
Expert is the president of a consulting firm. He has more than 20 years of experience in industrial research and development and more than 30 years experience in academia. He worked for BOC Coating Technology investigating and developing vacuum and…
Materials Science and Condensed Matter Physics
Expert's research has centered on materials science, including such major topics as: Growth, structure, properties, and processing of heteroepitaxial material systems; Atomic-scale modeling of metal and semiconductor surfaces and interfaces; Thermodynamics and modeling of mechanical and chemical response to extreme…