I specialize in aerospace flight hardware failure analysis. I have over 30 years of experience with liquid rocket engine combustion chambers and turbomachinery, fuel and oxidizer ducts and valves, fuel and oxidizer tanks, and International Space Station hardware.I also have significant metallurgical experience including microstructural characterization of aluminum alloys, copper alloys, nickel based super alloys, refractory alloys, and numerous alloy steels and stainless steels. In support of materials and failure analysis activities, I also have 30 years of analytical experience using optical and electron microscopy techniques to document materials microstructures and chemistries.
Listed skills include Metallurgy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Failure Analysis, Characterization, and 17 others.