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Tire Forensics, Quality, Tire Accident Expert Consultant Resume

Resume of VTO Consultant
Principal Industries Served:
  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Rubber

Education:

This expert has a B.S.E. from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.


Expertise and Services:

Tire Forensics, Quality, Tire Accident Expert Consultant Resume

This expert specializes in tire design and manufacturing,tire mold engineering, quality assurance, and quality control. Further expertise includes research and development, tire safety, wheel safety, passenger vehicle tire design, and light truck tire engineering.

Additional experience and specialization includes process engineering, compounding, tire testing, and wheel engineering. Other experience includes agricultural tire engineering, heavy truck tire engineering, passenger tire engineering, tire mechanics, and inspection.

Expertise of particular interest in matters requiring expert testimony include accident reconstruction, collision investigation, tire rims, and tire pressure. Other expertise encompasses test requirements, tire inflation, and tire failure analysis.


Professional Experience:

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Providing expertise in tire forensic analysis, tire engineering, quality control, tire accident consulting, engineering failure analysis, forensic investigation and analysis, expert witness testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

Director, Quality, Pirelli Tire LLC

Directed external market quality assurance.

Technical Director, Pirelli Tire North America

Directed R&D and factory quality.

Director, R&D, Pirelli Tire Corporation

Worked with all functions of passenger and light truck tires including process engineering and compounding.

Director Tire & Mold Engineering, Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp.

Work involved FEA, tire design, mold engineering, and drafting.

Director, Tire Dynamics & Mold Engineering, Armstrong Rubber Company

Directed indoor and outdoor tire testing, ME & drafting. Also was wheel engineer, agricultural tire engineer, heavy truck tire engineer, manager heavy truck tires, manager passenger tire engineering.

Instructor, Basic Tire Mechanics and Inspection, University of California at Riverside

Seminar Instructor, N & S California Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists

Seminar Instructor, San Diego County Collision Investigators Association (SDCCIA)


Additional Experience:

Additional Experience

Instructor, Basic Tire Mechanics and Inspection, University of California at Riverside

Seminar Instructor, N & S. California Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists

Seminar Instructor, San Diego County Collision Investigators Association (SDCCIA)

Factory visits Indonesia, Korea, Europe, and North America

New tire line launch & testing with journalists in Italy, Canada, and USA


Case Studies:

Rapid Wear-Underlying Belt Separation
Tire Failure Examination
Tire Failure: The Need for an Expert's Background to be Relevant


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