Product Design Expert Witnesses in New York

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in retail store management. She earned her BS in consumer, apparel, and retail studies from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a concentration in apparel product design. She has formerly worked for companies such as Target and Anthropologie. While with Target, she held such roles as senior team leader of guest experience and softlines and executive team leader of assets protection. With Anthropologie, she served as the manager of the apparel and home departments, as well as selling and hiring. She also held the role of store brand leader. Most recently, she worked with Cuyana as a store manager and retail project manager.

This expert earned his BS, MBA, and an advanced certificated in accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has extensive experience in the sales and marketing of building materials, especially for indoor fixtures. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the International Surface Fabrication Association, the Marble Institute of America, the American Society of Interior Designers, and the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. He has formerly served in various financial roles, as well as the general manager of Cosentino N.A., the national sales manager of Artisan MFG, and the vice president of global business development for Hirsch Glass/Spectrum Quartz. Currently, this expert serves as the president of a product development firm.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the parking technology and operations industry. He is well-versed in parking design specifications, maintenance and operation procedures, traffic, and safety standards and best practices. He earned his BA in psychology at the University of Hartford. He has held several positions throughout the industry including general manager of Metropolitan Parking System, Inc., vice president of business development at TCS International, vice president of the northeast region at Amano McCann, vice president of operations at Park Assist, and CEO at Designa Access Corporation. This expert is currently the principal of a parking design consulting firm in Massachusetts.

This highly qualified expert has a decade of experience in mechanical engineering. He specializes in mechanical design, scale model testing, heat transfer, equipment packaging, CFD analysis, and process/design FMEA. He obtained both his BS and MS in mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, before beginning his career in the field. Today, he is a licensed professional engineer in Connecticut and Maine. This expert previously served as a mechanical engineer at Depuy Orthopedics, as a boiler design engineer at Babcock Power Inc., and as a project engineer at Apex Engineering. He is currently an equipment engineer at a global fuel cell power company in Connecticut.

This highly-qualified laryngology expert has experience with voice and airway disorders, laryngeal and airway trauma, difficult airways, and vocal fold paralysis. She received her BSE in mechanical engineering from the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and her MSE in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan before earning her MD from Wayne State University. She subsequently completed her residency in otolaryngology with a focus in head and neck surgery at Henry Ford Health System and her fellowship in voice and airway surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. This expert is board-certified in otolaryngology and is active in her field as a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the International Association of Phonosurgeons, and the Triological Society. Formerly, she served as a global product development engineer at General Motors Corporation, an assistant professor of immunology & microbiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, an assistant professor of otolaryngology at Oakland School of Medicine, and a locum tenens otolaryngologist at ProMedica Memorial Hospital. Currently, this expert serves as a staff laryngologist at a health network, as well as an assistant professor of surgery in otolaryngology at a university, both in Pennsylvania.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in the medical device industry, with broad expertise in cardiovascular and endovascular fields with a focus on percutaneous catheters, heart assist devices, brain and aortic aneurysm treatment, and vascular closure products. He earned his MS in mechanical engineering at Moscow State Technical University and worked as the lead engineer at the Scientific Institute for Transplantology and Artificial Organs before moving to the United States. He is a registered patent agent through the US Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers, the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, and the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs. He formerly served as the scientific director and vice president of technology at Datascope Corp. before he served as the CTO of Cerus Endovascular. This expert is currently the principal of a patent consulting company, the founder of a medical technology development company, and the vice president of product development for a medical device start-up in New Jersey.

This expert received his BS and MS from the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT and is a licensed engineer in NY and CT. He currently works as a forensic/consulting engineer at a private engineering firm. His investigative and analytic experience includes motor vehicle accident reconstruction, biomechanics, product design and safety, and computer simulation and animation. He has also served as a member of the ANSI/NGCMA Z130.1 engineering specifications committee.

This supremely qualified Expert of Mechanical Engineering and biomechanics obtained his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University. He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer and a Licensed Professional Engineer. He is a Fellow and member of the American Society of Mechanical and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has 175+ Publications on Mechanical Engineering and is Currently the Professor of Mechanical Engineering at a New York College and is the Founder and Director of an Engineering Design Firm with over thirty years of academia, industrial and expert witness experience.

From 2004 to 2012, this expert dedicated his career to the development of lighting controls and motorized window shades and blinds. Having earned a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College, he holds 8 US patents for the design of mechanized light control systems. His career has been centered around new product development. He has experience across several additional industries, including, surgical implants and instruments, mechanical piping, and industrial hose products, both as an engineer and product development team leader.

This expert is an education change agent with a wide variety of experiences in K-12 and higher education. He has taught kindergarten, worked as a language instructor, consulted as an IB PYP expert, and is versed in Understanding by Design. He was the program director for a state virtual school (Louisiana) and a policy expert and grants coordinator for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. He is highly knowledgeable in curriculum design and development, serving as a Master Reviewer for Quality Matters and as an Online Learning Council Fellow at Drexel University. His research interests center around emerging technologies, urban school reform, leadership development and anything dealing with K-12 virtual schooling. He earned his doctoral degree at LSU and an MEd in Early Childhood Education at George Mason University.

This expert has over 25 years in electrical engineering and product development. He gained his MS and PhD in electrical engineering and systems from the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Illinois Institute, he transitioned to industry and spent 13 years at Motorola Mobility developing wireless products. He ended his tenure as Motorola's vice president of product management and development. Currently he is developing products at a start-up in Massachusetts.

This expert has over 35 years experience in technology-based products and services, wired and wireless communications, and the Cable Television industry sectors. He has a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering as well an MBA from Temple University. He has 23+ patents within the industry for Cable TV and consumer electronics products. He has worked for a number of telecom and PV companies including Motorola, General Instrument, Closed Networks, and Aurora Control Technologies. In these roles he has experience in strategic planning, product and system design, as well as implementation of corporate initiatives. Specifically, he has designed and tested of portable 2-way communications equipment, as well as developed, patented and launched systems internationally for an innovative Interactive (Internet) TV system for CATV. As an independent consultant for Tyco/ADT, he completed a full analysis of potential home and health care segments and competitive products. He is currently the Director Business Development for a Cable Television Hardware Manufacturer.

This industrial design expert has 45+ years of experience in product design and engineering. The expert founded a successful industrial design development company in Philadelphia in 1970 and remained Principle of the business through 2012. In addition, he served as a local and national officer for the Industrial Designers Society of America and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award as well as election to the Academy of Fellows. The expert earned his B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a Member of the Product Development Management Association. He now works as a professor and a product design & development consultant.

This expert has extensive experience in the field of biomechanics and human factors. He earned his BS and MS from the Colorado School of Mines and his PhD in biomedical engineering from Oregon Health & Science University. He is certified in prosthetics and a member of the International Society for Posture and Gait Research. He previously served as a design engineer for JR Engineering, LLC, as a graduate research assistant at Oregon Health & Science University and as an assistant professor at the University of Hartford. He is currently an associate professor at a university in Connecticut.

This highly qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in medical device regulations. He received his BS in chemical engineering from Lowell Technological Institute and earned his MS in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa. He currently has 5 patents. Over the years, his work has included antimicrobial development and application, hydrophilic coating development and implementation, and over-the-counter and personal care product development. His former positions include research engineer for Eastman Kodak and GAF Corporation, project manager and laboratory supervisor for Biosearch Medical Products and Hydromer, and corporate manager of materials for Arrow International. Currently, this expert is the president of a medical device consulting company in Pennsylvania.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience in the field of mechanical engineering. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology before earning his MBA from Saint Bonaventure University. This expert is a registered professional engineer and currently holds 2 patents. His former positions include product design manager for Dresser Industries, owner and operator of Advanced Automation Solutions, and director of engineering for Innovative Pressure Technologies. Currently, this expert is a professional engineer for a private mechanical engineering firm in Pennsylvania.