Product Design Expert Witnesses in Wisconsin

This expert has been involved in Product Development and new product innovation for over 25 years, serving in various positions in both the corporate and consulting settings. In his current position, he is responsible for New Product Development and Innovation as well as managing the day to day product development and brand development activities. I have held similar corporate positions at Body Solid Inc. a fitness equipment manufacturer and distributor, Lava World Internationaln and Home Products International. As part of his experience in developing and bringing to market new and innovative products, he has become very familiar with the patenting process and efforts to protect new product innovations. He has served as a design and utility patent expert for a number of intellectual property law firms throughout the country and has been part of numerous cases involving utility and design patent infringement as well as trade dress. He has testified in Federal Court and WTC Hearings. IHe has a number of personal patents and has been named on over 100 design and utility patents. He have been involved in two company start ups, an intellectual property licensing and manufacturing firm and a specialty sporting equipment and apparel manufacturer. In addition to his career in Product Development,this expert has over 20 years experience in the architectural field as an Architectural Designer of residential, commercial and government projects. Prior to transferring to U of I for design, he was involved in the architecture program at Western Michigan University, later becoming a partner in an architectural firm responsible for the historic re-development of downtown Kalamazoo.

This expert runs a full-service, comprehensive safety and engineering facility. As a leader in the field of mechanical engineering and safety, his goal is to increase awareness of personal safety issues, while maintaining exacting standards and best practices of the science of personal safety and industrial safety. He is a member of numerous prestigious societies in the field, including the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering and the Society of Automotive Engineers. Currently, this expert is the principal of a design engineering and safety analysis firm.

This international technology expert has hands-on experience in all aspects of agriculture, including crop production, equipment design, R&D, teaching, manufacturing, and marketing. He has four advanced degrees in business/engineering, including a Ph.D. in the Automation of Technological Processes from the National University of Life and Environmental Science of Ukraine. He has authored 70+ publications and holds 11 U.S. patents, as well as others from Canada, the EU, and Russia. The expert currently works in a product development and marketing capacity for an agricultural systems consultancy.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in architecture and the functionality of built environments, with his work involving public spaces, premises liability, design problem, and architectural copyright for a wide range of building and property types. He received his BS in communications from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before earning his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in architecture from University College London, and his DTech in built environment from Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He is active in his field as a member of several associations, including the American Real Estate Society, the Cliff Dwellers, and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. This expert is also involved in the field as an author of a multitude of peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and professional criticisms and reviews. He has also presented at various conferences on the local, national, and international levels throughout his career. He has formerly served as a planner for the Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois Planning Commission, a designer for Skidmore Ownings & Merrill, the acting project architect for Douglas Schroeder Associates, and the managing director of Space Syntax. He also has an abundance of academic experience, having previously served as an associate professor of architecture at Arizona State University, the associate dean and an associate professor of architecture and planning at the University of Colorado Denver, and the head of real estate management and development at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Currently, this expert is the owner of a product design company and the principal and owner of a design analysis firm.

This highly qualified mechanical engineer has been in his field for more than 35 years, with demonstrated experience in structures and materials, process control technology, and the power industry. He earned his MS in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University and his EMBA from Southern Methodist University. He is a fellow and member of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Society of Automation and a registered professional engineer in Iowa. He holds 11 patents related to control valve design and maintenance and has published a book and several technical articles on control design, installation, and maintenance. He worked with Fisher for over 15 years in various roles, as a product engineer, a nuclear liaison engineer, a senior project engineer, and finally as vice president of global nuclear business. This expert is currently a consultant at an independent mechanical engineering company.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in the roofing and building enclosure industry. He earned his AAS in civil engineering technology from Hawkeye Institute of Technology before earning his BA in computer science and business administration from Coe College. He is licensed as a professional engineer in 4 states and is a registered roof consultant and exterior wall consultant. He is active in his field as a member of ASTM International, the Roof Consultants Institute, and the Building Enclosure Council, and as an author of several articles on roofing and building codes. He formerly served as a design engineer and project manager for Shive-Hattery Engineers and Architects, the office manager for VJ Engineer, and a project engineer with Brown Engineering, where he was responsible for building envelope and roofing consulting projects. Currently, this expert serves as a project engineer for facilities at a roofing engineering consulting firm based in Iowa.

This expert has over 15 years of experience in the medical device industry as a quality engineer, quality systems and complaint investigator with emphasis on cardiovascular devices. A Certified Quality Engineer and Biomedical Auditor, his expertise includes managing quality systems, design and development of new product lines, product risk management and complaint investigations. He currently serves as Principal quality management systems and business Consultant for an independent consulting firm in both medical device and other industries. His understanding of medical device firm operations and intimate familiarity with medical device requirements in both the US and other geographies make him an ideal expert to provide advice in determining both legal and regulatory requirements for medical device firms as well as users (clinicians).

This highly qualified expert received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Alberta and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science. This expert has 27 years of academic teaching experience as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the highly regarded University of Michigan. In addition to his academic teaching experience, he has 6 years Industrial R&D experience as Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and as Senior R&D Engineer at Bharat Electronics Ltd. He also has held the prestigious position as Program Director of Emerging Models and Technologies Programs and Program Director in Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division at the National Science Foundation. This expert is the inventor for 5 published patents and has published over 260 technical papers and 4 books on various aspects of Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technology and systems. His inventions in testable DRAM circuits, in-line accelerated testing procedures for high-density RAM chips, and testing of embedded ROM and SRAM through JEDEC boundary scan ports are widely used by memory and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) manufacturers. His research in biology-inspired VLSI layout synthesis, self-healing VLSI design and self-repairable memory compilers has made commercial impact. His research group has developed a Quantum SPICE simulator to design several innovative quantum tunneling based circuits that were fabricated by many U.S. companies. He has been awarded many honors including Digital's Incentives for Excellence Award, BF Goodrich National Collegiate Invention Award, and the DARPA Research Excellence Award. This expert is an American Association for the Advance of Science Fellow and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow for his distinguished contributions to the field of VLSI. He has served as a Consultant for several semiconductor companies as well as an Adviser and Expert Witness in 8 lawsuits involving DRAM, SRAM, Flash, and FPGA. Currently, he is a Tenured Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at a major university where he continues to make active contributions to the field of semiconductor memory systems, quantum tunneling circuits and CAD Tools, and Reliable VLSI Systems Design.