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Qualifications and Experience |
Qualifications and Experience
Over 30 years' experience in shipment package design, development, and management of Packaging, Material Handling, and Industrial Engineering operations.
- Extensive worldwide distribution operations experience.
- Significant contributions to quality and cost reduction.
- Over 13 years' experience with service parts packaging
- Broad base in product/package system testing.
- Working knowledge of HAZMAT regulations and requirements.
- Detailed knowledge of environmental packaging design requirements.
- Proficiency in developing technical packaging documentation.
- National recognition for innovation and problem solving/prevention.
- Extensive international travel and responsibility.
- Often quoted in national packaging and transportation publications.
Worldwide responsibility for Packaging and Material Handling Engineering with a $10 billion manufacturing company providing functional direction and technical support to all divisions. Additional experience with packaging of computers and other electromechanical devices, consumer products, service parts, and Rx/OTC pharmaceuticals.
- Drove distribution requirements as part of product design.
- Developed two Service Parts Packaging programs.
- Audited for compliance with packaging standards.
- Provided technical data on distribution environment hazards.
- Developed national agreements for packaging materials.
- Acted as liaison between Distribution and Manufacturing Divisions.
- Provided training for all business units.
- Developed award-winning Design for Distribution video.
- Developed Product/Package Teamwork video.
- Provided support for improved productivity in Distribution.
- Wrote Physical Distribution System Handbook.
- Won awards for profit improvement and technical excellence.
- Designed/developed first "break-away" cushioned pallet.
- Designed contest-winning dispenser package.
- Hold patents for two packaging systems.
- Developed cushion wrap material still in use after decades.
Experience as a packaging/material handling professional and expert witness.
Areas of expertise with respect to product liability and loss/injury accidents include:
- Product packaging, distribution, and material handling
- Palletizing, storage, and warehousing
- Loading, blocking, and bracing of:
- Returnable racking systems
- Shipping/handling pallets
- Flat bed trailers
- Van trailers
- Intermodal containers
- Rail cars
- Aircraft pallets and containers
As a packaging and material handling professional with over 30 years' experience, including over 20 years with the ASTM D-10 Committee writing packaging, handling, and loading standards, I assist my clients in developing winning strategies.
