Accomplishments & Seminars
Listing of Accompishments
Professional Honors
- Named as Senior Fellow of the Society, of the Society of Plastics Engineers in 2005 for lifetime contributions in the field of plastics.
Patents
- Coholder of the FOGCUTTER tm a fogless dental mirror 4,568,281.
- Sole holder of the TV. LOCKEY — an electrical locking device, pending.
- Coholder SOFTTUF process patent — Mattel Toy.
Professional Memberships/Associations Accomplishments
- Board Chair, Plastics Design and Development Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers 2006-2007
- Board Member, Rocky Mountain Division, Society of Plastics Engineers, 2001-2005
- Board Member, Plastics Design and Development Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers 2003, 2004, 2005
- Instructor, Larimer County Community College, “Advanced Plastics Processing’ 1996
- Co-chair “Tooling and Part Engineering: Choices, Standards, and Economies” National Plastics Exposition 1994
- Senior Member, Society of Plastics Engineers. Member since 1970
- Member Society of the Plastics Industries Member since 1989
- Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers since 1990
- Member American Mold Builders Association
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers 1992-1996.
- Member, Society of the Plastics Industry Speakers Bureau.
- Member, Society of Plastics Engineers Speakers Bureau.
- Former member, Hewlett Packard’s Plastics Corporate Design, Tooling and Manufacturing Strategy Task Force.
- Member, Hewlett Packard’s Corporate Sheet Metal Commodity Team. 1980-1990
- Member, board of directors of So. Calif. Chapter Society of Plastics engineers 1977-1981
Other
- Faculty Instructor, Front Range Community College, Fort Collins CO Since 1996
- Faculty Instructor, Nypro Institute, Clinton MA since 1994
- Guest Lecturer Injection Molding Bi-Annual Conferences since 1991
- Instructor/Consultant for the Canadian Plastics Institute, Toronto Ontario, Canada since 1985
- Guest lecturer/seminar leader at the Plastics Designer’s Forum biannual conference since 1987
- Consultant for TelTech Inc. a technical knowledge reset service, Minneapolis, MN. Since 1978
- Expert witness in product liability trials since 1991.
- Guest Lecturer at: Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, Stevens Institute, Paramus, NJ; Colorado State
- University, Fort Collins, CO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
SEMINARS
Creator and instructor of the following seminars:
- DISIPLINED/SCIENTIFIC MOLDING - One Day Seminar
- MANAGEMENT TRAINING IN PLASTICS - Two Day Seminar
- INJECTION MOLDING OPTIMIZATION - Half Day Seminar
- PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT IN INJECTION MOLDING Ã- One Day Seminar
- COST REDUCTION IN INJECTION MOLDED PARTS - One Day Seminar
- SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES FOR SMALL MANUFACTURERS - One Day Seminar
- TOOLING STANDARDS - One Day Seminar
- TROUBLESHOOTING FROM DESIGN TO PROCESSING - One Day Seminar
- FROM QC TO SPC - Setting up and running a QC program. One day Seminar
- FUNDAMENTALS OF INJECTION MOLDING - Mastering injection molding. Two Day Seminar
- ZERO DEFECTS — Quality improvement in manufacturing. 4 Hour seminar
- BASIC INJECTION MOLDING/BASIC TROUBLE SHOOTING - Mastering the injection molding process. One Day Seminar
- SETTING UP YOUR OWN QC PROGRAM - Up grading a quality control program. One Day Seminar
- QUALITY STATISTICS — Advanced statistical quality control
- EXECUTIVE SEMINARS FOR PLASTICS - Project engineering and management of plastics programs. Up to three days
- TRYOUTS, STARTUP AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MOLDS. One Day Seminar.
- SCIENTIFIC MOLD QUALIFICATIONS One Day Seminar
- EXPERT MOLDING One Day Seminar
- Instructor for the Israeli Rubber and Plastics Institute
- Instructor for Technical Service Engineers for SABIC Corporation
- Seminar Instructor for Society of Plastics Engineers
- Instructor for three day Quality Control Seminars held bi-annually at PLASTIC FAIR both east and west coast since 1983.
- Seminar Instructor of Plastics Fairs and Plastics Product Designer’s forum since 1989
- Instructor for Canadian Plastics Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada, since 1990
- Lecturer Society of Plastics Engineers National Speaker’s circuit 1984 to present
- Contributing editor to Hewlett Packard’s Supplier Quality Handbook 1990 Edition
- Guest Speaker: Society of Plastics Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Rocky Mountain Council for competitive products, American Society of Production Control, American Society of Mold Builders, Society for the Plastics Industry.
- Instructional computer programs
- Quick-Sight Estimator - A stand alone computer program that estimates part and mold costs.
- Capacity Planning for Injection Molding - Two spreadsheet programs to determine the size and capacity of new tooling and how to determine the capacity requirements of a molding plant. Copyright 1995
- ToolTrack - a computer spread sheet program to track the progress of the building of injection molds and report to customers. Copyright 1994
- Instructional Videotapes Training tapes used for in-house instruction or in conjunction with seminars.
- Practical Mold Installation A guide to Change-Overs, Start Ups and Operations
- A training video with accompanying text book on the procedures of mold installation and efficient production in English, Spanish, French and German. Copyright 1993
- Mold Setting A guide to setting molds
- A training video with accompanying text book on the procedures of mold installation. Copyright 1993
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