Metallurgical engineer with demonstrated expertise in heat treating technology from twenty years with John Deere, five years as Vice President and General Manager of Radyne Corporation and eighteen years as a Metallurgical Engineering Consultant and Manufacturer' Representative selling heat treating, forge heating, sintering, and brazing equipment. Founded and co-owned Advanced Heat Treat Corp., a high technology commercial heat treating company dedicated to ion nitriding.

Highly experienced in problem solving through materials applications analysis and failure analysis.

• Implemented automatic control of carburizing and carbonitriding furnaces using programmable controllers and infrared analyses of %CO, %CO2, and %CH4  for continuous and batch furnaces.  Also implemented O2 probes for controlling less critical carburizing processes.


• Developed ion nitriding process procedures to make it commercially viable. Purchased, installed, started up, and personally operated two ion nitriders as well as metallurgical laboratory support equipment.


• Determined the need, developed the ROI, and purchased more than 75 machines for heat treating and inspection.


• Extensive experience in: specifying materials and process applications for experimental and production parts; process capability studies; failure analyses (more than 700 conducted); material and machining complaint investigations; process control for all heat treatments including carburizing, carbonitriding, nitriding, induction hardening, annealing, normalizing, stress relieving, hot flattening, through hardening, austempering, press quenching, and tempering.


• Conceived and implemented gear hardening through the use of high power density single shot induction heating as opposed to tooth-by-tooth scanning. The resulting productivity improvement was from 1 gear in 20 minutes to 1 gear in 1 minute.


• Contributing author and reviewer to ASM and wrote the chapter on "Measurement of Case Depth" in the Heat Treat volume of the Metals Handbook series published by ASM in 1982.
• Share authorship of the book "Carburizing and Carbonitriding" published by ASM in 1976.


• Occasional speaker at the bi-annual ASM National Conference and Exposition.


• Speaker several times at annual regional SAE conference on heat treating to teach basic heat treat metallurgy.