Product Design Expert Witnesses in Tennessee

This expert has more than 32 years of experience in the asphalt roofing manufacturing industry. He is a certified Lean Trainer and a certified Six Sigma Champion. While at Owens Corning, he spent 20 years as a plant manager for 3 separate asphalt roofing facilities, 8 years as a production manager, and 5 years in various supervisory and support roles. He also served on a product development and design team that specialized in high wind and impact resistant shingles. While at Owens Corning, this expert was a six sigma champion and continuously worked on process standardization in various shingle plants. He has a great deal of experience working with raw material suppliers to reduce variation in their product/process in order to achieve finished product consistency and performance, and was very involved with process monitoring design to assure finished product specification compliance.

This highly credentialed biomedical engineer has significant experience in the design and development of cardiothoracic medical devices. He earned his Master's degree from Georgia Tech and the Emory University School of Medicine; After six years of industry experience he returned to academia and obtained the PhD from the University of Aarhus in Denmark. Then at the Aarhus University Hospital he achieved the Doctor Medicinae (DrMed) degree, which denotes medical research expertise above and beyond a PhD. He is an active member of several scholarly societies in the biomedical field and is a regular reviewer of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, the Journal of Surgical Research, and Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology. He currently serves on the biomedical engineering faculty of a major Southern university.

This expert earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his MS in product design engineering from Stanford University. He has seven years of industry experience working as a product designer for Ford Motor Company and Volkswagon of America. He has over fifteen years of experience designing products for automotive and home electronics clients. This expert is currently a professor of industrial design at a university in Georgia and the principal of a design and engineering consultancy.

This expert has extensive experience as a paper scientist and product engineer, with expertise in forensic document examination and legal document services. He earned his BS in paper science and engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has created two patent-pending technologies for advancements in forensic document examination and document security. Formerly, this expert has served as a production engineer for Boise Cascade Corporation and a technical sales analyst for Ashland Hercules Water Technologies. Currently, this expert is an account manager for a paper company in Georgia and a forensic document examination consultant.

This expert has been working with fire extinguishing systems for 40 years. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and holds membership in both the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and the National Fire Protection Association. He spent 15 years working for Ansul/Wormald, starting as a Development Engineer of fire suppression products and working his way up through the roles of Manufacturing Engineer, Operations Management, Applications Engineer, Product Development Manager, and eventually to Vice President of Wormald Fire Systems. After serving in executive positions with Fenwal Safety Systems and Forney Corporation, he became President of Kidde Technologies, a position he held for over a decade. Currently, this expert is the Principal of his own fire systems consultancy, wherein he utilizes his technical and market experience in the fire suppression industry to aid businesses, manufacturers, and private equity firms on a variety of projects and initiatives related to fire protection systems.

This expert has been in the cycling and sporting goods industry for over 19 years. A former Product Manager/Buyer with Performance Bike, Inc., he was a key component of designing, developing, sourcing, pricing, and marketing their highly successful private-label line of cycling and multi-use apparel and accessories. As a Senior Line Product Manager with Cycling Sports Group, he managed the entire apparel product life cycle from initial concept to final delivery. The recipient of awards such as Honoree of Sporting Goods Business Top 40 Under 40 as well as a two-time winner of Bicycling Magazine Editor's Choice Award, this expert is currently the Director of Product Development & Sourcing for a global leader in the Sporting Goods/Outdoor channel.