Chemistry Expert Witnesses in Oklahoma

This FDA regulation expert earned her B.S. in Environmental Chemistry from Purchase College and her M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado Denver. She began her career with the FDA in 1987 as a Chemist in the Denver Districts Laboratory and then became a Compliance Officer in 1992, specializing primarily in medical device and biologics cases. She later managed a group of eight investigators as a Supervisory Consumer Safety Officer and then became a Compliance Officer, tasked with evaluating reports and lab analysis to determine compliance with regulation. The expert finished her FDA career as a Senior Case Review Expert, a role she held from 2008 until the end of 2015. In this position, she was responsible for reviewing and evaluating proposed judicial actions to determine if they were compliant with the requirements of the the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act and other regulations. Currently, the expert runs her own consulting business.

This qualified Safety Engineer obtained his BS and MS in Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and earned a Doctor of Business Administration with a focus on Organizational Safety. Licensed as a professional engineer in Florida and certified as a safety professional (CSP), he has completed a considerable amount of additional training in OSHA and HAZOPs, fault tree and Root Cause Analysis (RCA). He began his career in chemical safety in 1972 with Industrial Risk Insurers, and ultimately managed risk engineering services for insurance companies such as Zurich, AIG, and others. He has audited hundreds of industrial plants over the course of his career.

This lighting expert earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and has been granted 26 U.S. patents, many of which relate to lighting fixtures. From 2008 until 2011, he served as the Vice President of Research at the Lighting Science Group Corp, where he transitioned the company to a product-driven supplier of LED products and helped grow revenues from $3 million to $100 million. He later served as the Chief Engineer of the ETi Lighting Research Institute and the Vice President of Research and Development for ETi Solid State Lighting Inc. He has worked at every stage of LED technology, including raw materials, lighting fixtures, and standards development. The expert currently works as a technology and engineering consultant and also assists on legal matters, primarily patent infringement cases.

This actively practicing hospitalist earned a BS in Chemistry from Tulane University, an MS in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an MD from Baylor College of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a fellow in the American College of Physicians. This expert is currently a hospitalist at a medical facility in Texas.

This distinguished scholar is the Head of Chemical & Materials Engineering at his university, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a former board of directors member of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to joining academia, he worked for E. I. duPont de Nemours, Conoco, Ethyl, and Kraft where he gained extensive experience in chemical processes that involved alternatives to CFCs, catalyst manufacture, agricultural & pharmaceutical intermediates processing, monomer recovery by depolymerization, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis of cheese by-products, electromembrane processes, bioethanol production, and numerous food processing operations. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

This highly qualified expert earned his BS from Hope College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Indiana University. He has experience in catalyst research in support of polyethylene manufacturing, additive stabilization of polymers, interaction of chemicals with plastics, extrusion production of plastic pipe, plastic pipe material technical service and plastic pipe system component testing. End use applications in which he is a plastics expert include corrugated plastic pipe, water distribution and plumbing systems, oil and gas production, plastic gas pipe, and conduit. In addition, this expert is active in his field as a member of numerous societies including The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, Plastic Pipe Institute, and Society of Plastics Engineers. Formerly, he held roles as Pipe Applications and Technical Supervisor at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and Technical Director at Microbac Hauser Divison. Currently, he is President of a plastics consulting firm.

This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in the chemical and petrochemical industries. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University. The expert has worked in academic roles throughout his career, including adjunct professor roles at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah. He has also been very active in industrial positions and held research roles with Dow Chemical Company and John Zink Company, among others. The expert has published 45+ papers, has authored 5+ book chapters, and holds 8 patents. He is an active industry consultant and currently serves as a Professor of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering for a university in Missouri.

This expert has more than 23 years of experience in the battery industry. He earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University and earned his graduate degree and doctorate from the University of Colorado, where his scholastic work focused on analytical chemistry and electrochemistry. At Optima Batteries a manufacturer of high power, spiral wound lead-acid batteries, he participated in many R&D projects, including one sponsored by GM and the Department of Energy to develop a hybrid electric vehicle. At TDA, he worked to apply activated carbon technologies to a variety energy storage concepts including: ultracapacitors, ultracapcitor hybrids, lithium sulfur batteries, hybrid carbon monofluoride batteries and silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries. This expert has particular expertise in lead-acid batteries and lithium-ion batteries. He currently operates a lab in Boulder, CO where he can do more detailed investigations. These might include: forensic exams (evaluation of evidence), failure analysis, performance analysis and modeling.

This highly qualified expert earned his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas followed by a JD from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He also earned his LLM with diplomas in energy, environmental, and natural resources law, intellectual property and information law, and taxation. He is an expert in environmental and energy law, engineering, and safety. This expert formerly served as a regional engineer, division director, and regional director of the Texas Control Board which is now known as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Currently, this expert serves as an engineering manager for an air and waste engineering company in Texas, as well as an environmental and intellectual property attorney.

This expert has over two decades of experience in the field of quality and manufacturing processes, specializing in automotive vehicles and their components. She received her BS in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and then became a process engineer at Woodbridge Foam. Afterward, she worked as a quality engineer at Estee Lauder Corporation, a project manager for ATS Automation Tooling Systems, and then as the assistant manager of quality engineering at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, where her primary role was to ensure accurate root cause analysis on completed vehicle or sub-component quality problems related to customer-use, manufacturing, or design-related issues. She then became the director of global quality for valve and pipes manufacturing at Crane ChemPharma & Energy, where she was responsible for implementing Global Standard Quality Processes to manage in-house and supplier manufacturing. Currently, she owns a private consulting firm in Texas.

This highly qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in the field of chemistry. He earned both his BS in chemistry and his PhD in analytical chemistry from North Carolina State University. He is active in his field as a member of the American Chemical Society and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Chemists. This expert is also highly involved in research in his field, currently holding one patent for an electrochemical apparatus and having authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. During his time at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he served as the deputy group leader of bioscience and biotechnology, deputy center leader and director of integrated nanotechnologies, and the division leader of chemistry. Currently, this expert is the owner and CEO of a scientific consultancy in New Mexico.

This highly-qualified expert is an MIT-trained engineer specialized in mechanical engineering, process engineering, oil and gas, flow assurance, and thermal-hydraulics with 40 years of experience in his field. After graduating from the industrial engineer program at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Venezuela, he went on to study at MIT, earning an MSc, an ME, and a PhD. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and is a Bechtel-certified engineering supervisor and project engineering manager, as well as a Bechtel distinguished engineer. This expert is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He worked as an engineer for several firms in Venezuela for over 25 years before moving to the United States to serve as BP America's process engineering team coordinator. He then went on to serve as a process engineering manager for Jacobs Engineering and a flow assurance manager for both Technip and Bechtel Engineering. He has received several honors and awards for his work, including being the first Hispanic recipient of the Madam Curie Research Grant. Currently, this expert serves as the president of a mechanical, process, and flow assurance engineering consulting firm in Texas.

This highly qualified chemical engineer has more than 40 years of experience in the design and operation of petroleum refineries, oil terminals, and petrochemical plants. Much of his work originates at executing process simulators, including simulations in petroleum refining, ethylene, fine chemicals, reforming processes, dehydration, distillation, and gas processing. For the past 30+ years, this expert has been the President, Owner, and Engineering Manager for a large chemical process design firm that analyzes chemical processes, petrochemical plant safety, and a variety of facets in the industry.

This qualified expert of Fracking Tools & Applications obtained his BS in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University and is a member of multiple Chemistry and Petroleum Professional Societies. This expert has more than forty five years of experience in both research, development, and field use of acidizing and fracturing fluids. He has worldwide experience in fracturing and acidizing stimulation, completion, well control operations, and knowledge of equipment and tools utilized in completion techniques unique to the oil field industry. He has published 70 Articles on Petroleum and Fracking and is currently the President of an Oil and Fracking Consulting Firm.