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Education:
This expert received a M.S. in Business from the Indiana Wesleyan University.
This expert received a B.S. in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Expertise and Services:
Automotive Materials, Expert Ferrous Metallurgy Consultant Resume
This consultant's area of expertise is in automotive industry materials engineering, analytical testing, heat treating, and ferrous metallurgy. This expert also has experience in failure analysis of metal and organic materials.
This consultant has extensive experience in management and direction of worldwide resources, and has served as chief metallurgist in a manufacturing plant specializing in manufacture of linkages for commercial truck vehicles.
Capabilities include multi-national materials engineering activities related to rack & pinion steering gear and linkages for passenger cars and light trucks. This expert has knowledge in heat treatment in automotive manufacturing, materials and process specifications of steering gear linkages and ball joints.
Additionally, this consultant has supervised materials laboratories, has developed new materials and processes, and has specified materials and processes for new products. Additional experience of this consultant includes failure analysis and material investigations of steering systems for Class 8 and off-highway trucks.
Professional Experience:
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.
Providing expertise in automotive materials engineering, metallurgy, materials engineering management, heat treatment, analytical testing, ferrous metallurgy, failure analysis, forensic investigation and analysis, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
Chief Technology Engineer, Materials Engineering, major automotive supplier technical center
Directed multi-national materials engineering activities. Was responsible for materials engineering activities related to rack & pinion steering gear and linkages for passenger cars and light trucks.
Chief Metallurgist, major automotive supplier
Managed the heat treat department in an automotive manufacturing plant. Was responsible for materials and process specifications. Principal product was steering gear linkages and ball joints.
Principal Engineer, Materials Engineering, major automotive supplier, Commercial Steering Systems
Supervised materials laboratories. Was responsible for developing new materials and processes. Specified materials and processes for new products. Main product was recirculating ball steering gears for Class 8 trucks.
Materials Engineer, major automotive supplier, Commercial Steering Systems
Was responsible for failure analysis and material investigations of steering systems for Class 8 and off-highway trucks. Maintained analytical laboratory equipment (SEM, FTIR, TGA, X-ray Diffraction, Emission Spectrograph, and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer).
