Fmea Expert Witnesses

Newport Beach, California

Products Liability, Manufacturing - Fitness, Fitness Equipment, Gym, Treadmill, Bicycle, Group Cycle, Spinning, Strength Training, Weight Training, Product Quality, Asia Manufacturing, Human Factors, FMEA, DFMA, Design for Serviceability, Products Liability, Premises Liability, IP Litigation , Patent Litigation

Over 25 years in the fitness equipment and bicycle industries bringing to the table a well-rounded professional perspective. From Mechanical Engineer designing products to head of Product Development & Quality ensuring manufacturing process and sourcing excellence, my expertise covers a wide spectrum of technical disciplines. With experience in technical field service training and being an avid user of fitness and bicycle equipment, I can also relate well with the plaintiff’s side of a product liabilities claim. I have provided testimony and sat as the most knowledgeable defense party on over 65 depositions as well as participated in mediations and litigations in the states of Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Texas as well as well as internationally in Canada, China, and Hong Kong. During college and after graduation, I was employed as a Mechanical Designer then Mechanical Engineer in the bike industry for Profile Design & Primo Products. I...

Berkeley, California

Products Liability, Mechanical Engineering - Risk Assessment, Failure Analysis, FMEA, Material Characterization and Testing, Material Properties, Metallurgy, Manufacturing, Aviation & Aerospace, 3D printing, Automotive, Welding, Warnings & Labels, Oil and Gas, Product Development, Laboratories & Testing, Candle Fires, Button Battery, Blenders, Heating pads

Mingxi is a Licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer in the state of California with expertise in materials development and mechanical engineering across a broad range of industries. She holds a Master's and a Bachelor's degree in Material Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. With a specialty in materials science, metallurgy, fracture mechanics and failure analysis, she has hands-on industry experience in materials testing and process development in the aerospace and manufacturing industries. Her time as a working engineer in advanced manufacturing and startup environments has proven invaluable in providing evidence and practice-based expert opinions and testimony regarding engineering, manufacturing, risk assessment and warnings. Prior to joining Berkeley Engineering And Research, Inc., she held engineering roles at SpaceX, Virgin Orbit, and Carbon 3D, where she worked on integrating Mil, ASTM, ISO, and NASA specifications into developing intel...

Westminster, Colorado

Products Liability, Biomedical Engineering - Medical device, Biologics, Manufacturing, Risk Management, Design History File, FMEA, Stem Cells, Biomaterials, Product Liability, Intellectual Property, Implant, Collagen, Device testing, Design Controls, Product labeling, CDMO, Quality/Regulatory, Allograft, Forensic Science

10+ years in medical device/biologics design, development, and manufacture 15 years in design and operational engineering Inventor on two biomedical patentsQualified Nuclear Engineering Officer in the US Navy First author for 3 peer-reviewed original scientific research articles

Sylvania, Ohio

Manufacturing - Quality, QA, Automotive, Manufacturing, TQM, FMEA, PPAP, Lean, QC, Audting, Certification, QMS, IATF, ISO9000, APQP, CAPA, Compliance, SPC, Six Sigma, RCA

Christopher Kluse is an Associate Professor of Quality Systems & Engineering Technology and the Assistant Director for the School of Engineering at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Prior to his full time appointment in Academia in 2015, Kluse was a lecturer of Quality Management at Eastern Michigan University, adjunct instructor at SNU where Kluse taught graduate courses in Quantitative Studies and Operations Management. Furthermore, Kluse and was employed, full time for 25 years, in the automotive industry holding various quality management related positions. Kluse holds a PhD in Technology Management, with a concentration in Quality Systems, a MS in Industrial Technology with with a concentration in Quality Systems, and is an ASQ Certified Manger of Quality & Organizational Excellence.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas

Risk Management, Statistics - Reliability, Quality, Automotive, Chemicals, Lean, Manufacturing, Warranty, Aluminum, Systems Engineering, Failure Analysis, Inventory, Product Development, Data Analysis, Design Verification, FRACAS, FMEA, Product Design, Database, Six Sigma, Optimization

Employment SKF - Senior Director Quality Systems and Transformation Collins & Aikman - Senior Director Corporate Quality & Continuous Improvement Visteon - Associate Director Quality & Reliability Engineering and Senior Technical Fellow Continental Teves - Manager Reliability Engineering & Quality Information Systems Alcoa - Reliability Leader & Technical Quality Consultant Morton Thiokol – Industrial Engineer Licenses & Certifications Professional Engineer – Michigan Six Sigma Master Black Belt Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Awards Distinguished Alumni Louisiana Tech University Society of Automotive Engineers Forest R. McFarland Award for Technical Leadership Fellow – American Society for Quality Fellow – Society of Automotive Engineers Publications Developer of NASA’s standard reliability life data software Dodson, Bryan, Pat. Hammett and Rene, Klerx, Probabilistic Design for Optimization and Robustness for Engineers, John Wiley & Sons,...