Expert Qualifications
This expert has published extensively in magazines, in-house journals, and textbooks. He is a participating member of numerous societies. He has over 40 years personal experience in management, consulting and expert services in the fields of design, manufacturing, testing of hydraulic, pneumatic and electro-mechanical lifting and load bearing machines, equipment and devices: industry experience including automotive, construction, industrial, material handling, warehousing and transportation: forensic engineering including product liability, accident investigation, reconstruction and expert testimony: incidents involving industrial trucks, aerial work platforms, forklifts, telehandlers, tuggers, pallet jacks, automatic storage and retrieval systems, dock boards, dock levelers, trailer restraints, trailer jacks, racks, conveyors, overhead bridge cranes, trucks, shop cranes, scissors lifts, shop cranes, automatic doors and lift gates: heavy equipment involving telehandlers, powered industrial trucks, automatic storage and retrieval systems, gantry cranes, truck cranes, tower cranes, cranes with hydraulic booms, cranes with lattice booms, grapple and magnet equipped excavators, and side boom cranes: conformity issues involving environmental, health and safety, warnings, instructions, training conformity with recognized standards, codes, industry custom and practice and government regulations.
Bio Snapshot
- Location: KY
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University
- Member, American Society of Safety Engineers
- Member, Material Handling Industry of America
- Member, Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers
- Former, Manager of Engineering, Cosmodyne Corporation
- Former, Manager of Manufacturing, Cosmodyne Corporation
- Former, General Manager, Ryan Industries
- Former, President and Chairman, VBM Corporation (Challenger Lifts)
- Current, Principal, an Engineering Consultancy
