1. 1973 -1979-Head of Ultrasonic Dept.in Canadian Vickers
(Versatile),Montreal,Canada
Responsible for Ultrasonic testing of Candu Nuclear Reactors (Calandrias,Fueling side
Moderator piping,Gadolinium vessels and tubes and Steam generators, Heavy Water
Towers),Rio Tercero,Argentina,Wolsung,SouthKorea,Ontario Hydro
Pickering,Darlington,Bruce,Leprau,New Brunswick,Czerna Voda ,Romania
Heavy wall Batiscaff,Ontario Hydro
Hybernia oil field drilling platforms,Canada.
Subway cars,Washington D.C.
Trident US Nuclear submarines.Torpedo Tubes,US Navy.,General Dynamics,Groton , Ct
Newport News Shipbuilding,
Syncrude heavy wall extractor reactor,Athabasca fields ,Alberta
Various Pressure vessels,including Steam Generators.
Testing of ocean going ships in a dry-docks
Involved with a design of various custom transducers and testing systems for the above
structures.
1975 – 1981 Sontest,Owner,Pointe Claire,Canada
Testing of various aircraft structures,including Canadian Prime Minister’s Jetstar and
other highly controlled aircraft at DOT Maintenance hangar in Ottawa
.
Testing of Superheaters,Combustion Engenering (ABB) at multiple sites across Canada
(ex.: Kitimat,B.C.)
Testing of Superstructure of Olympic Stadium in Montreal,including Ultrasonic tests of
concrete 25 meters thick.
Superstructure of Monument of Liberty,Algiers,Algeria
Superstructure of Palais de la Culture,Algiers,Algeria
Testing of 400 kV lines for Hydro Quebec.
Testing of locomotives at MLW (Bombardier)
Testing of aerospace and aircraft components at Canadair (Bombardier) Montreal
1981-1986 NDT Technologies Inc. Part Owner,Montreal, Canada
Design of high temperature 600 degrees F continuous ultrasonic testing system for a
narrow gap welded structures.
Design of Automated Ultrasonic rail testing system for Canadian National Railway
(CNR).
Design of Ultrasonic testing system for Plasma bottles,Abbott Laboratories.
Ultrasonic Dry-coupled Testing system for friction materials Abex(Cooper).
Ultrasonic Instrumentation for testing Wood,Forintek,B.C.,Canada
Teaching Ultrasonic testing at various colleges in Canada
1985-1986 NDT Technologies US Inc.Florida/California
Marketing and manufacturing of Ultrasonic,X-ray and Eddy Current instrumentation
and systems
2. 1986-1989 Airscan Inc. President,Costa Mesa , CA
Design and testing of Airscan Ultrasonic air-coupled instrumentation QAS 11 and XP
12,
Airscan systems at General Dynamics,LTV,Lockheed Aeronautical Systems,
Lockheed Missile and Space,BF Godrich ,Hughes Aerospace,Composite opticts (COI)
GE Astro,Embraer Brazil,Arisawa Mfg.,Japan,Northrup Grumman, Rockwell
Airbus R&D Paris,France,Hitco,Aerojet,Boeing,EADS,France,Airbus ,Germany,DASA
Ottobrunn,Germany.Fokker Space,Holland,Fiat Avio, Italy,AleniaTorino,Italy
1989 -1998 QMI, Inc. Vicepresident
Developing various methods of testing advanced composite materials and testing systems
1998-2001 QMI Inc. President
Custom systems –UltraFast testing system Cessna Aircraft.
Four Custom systems for ATK Delta rocket motors
Ultrasonic system for AXAF/Chandra astrophysical Laboratory satellite COI(ATK), San
Diego.
Development of testing for PDA,SAIC Aerojet,Lockheed Skunk works
Testing of Starlab Laser Gun bench for the Star Wars,Sunnyvale- Lockheed Misseles
and Space.
Loral -testing of Iridium Globalstar,High performance PCB
Development for Pultrusion material testing for Goldworthy&Assoc.,McDonell
Douglas,Dynamic Pultrusions.
TRW Presure systems-Hydrogene titanium satellite fuel tanks.
TRW rocket motors-columbium welds
Hughes Space-systems- High performance PCB
Goodrich SiC and Carbon/Carbon friction materials.
Asta Ultrasonic system,Melbourne Australia
Critical work on B2 stealth bomber,F22 Stealth fighter,F15,F18,C17,V22 US Airforce,
Dassault Mirage, Saab Grippen,Sweden.,Eurocopter.
Cargolifter,Lindstrom Ballons,Berlin Germany.
Task # 13 High Speed Civil Transport Mach 3 Research for rapid inspectionUS
Airforce,NASA,Boeing,Lockheed,Northrup.
Martin Marietta,AUSS system modification,Baltimore,MD
NASA JPL-various R&D programs
Hughes Missiles-TOW,Maverick missile instrumentation.
CASA Ultrasonic instrumentation, Spain
IAI,Tel Aviv, Israel
Spar Aerospace-satellite testing in Kanata,Canada
SAIC,testing of their material and structure development
Contraves Aerospace, Zurich various high tech structures of Arianne V rocket
3. 2001 to present-Airstar Inc. President,Irvine,CA
Design of Air-coupled Blow Detector systems AS 2100,
mandated by the biggest forestry company in the world Weyerhaeuser Company.
Same systems mandated by Boise Cascade LLC. Roseburg Forestry Products,Oregon
Georgia Pacific,Redbuilt,Timber Products,Pacific Wood Laminates all in USA.
Several custom systems in Victoria Ash Timber products,Heyfield,Victoria,Australia.
SGL system in Japan.
Boral Timber,testind laminates and solid lumber,two locations in NSW, Australia
Asahi Wood Products system with H&M, Japan
Testing of heavy casting (one piece-150 ton) in Japan Steel
Works,Muroran,Hokkaido,Japan
Acousto Ultrasonic System at General Dynamics ,Red Lion,PA
Mutichannel system in Kawasaki Heavy Industries,Japan System tests Boeing
Dreamliner composite tail end
System in Airbus Nantes France for testing special nacelles.
System for space reflectors in Thales Alenia,L’Aquila and Rome, Italy,
System in Avio,Collefero,Italy
System modification in Patria Finavitec, Finland
Three systems for aerospace research including one with two ABB robots in
Fibraforte,Sao Jose dos Campos,Brazil
Research contract for aerospace in Brazil
Forestry system in Tacuarembo,Uruguay
Various transducers and instruments in Japan: Toyota, Honda,Hitachi,Krautkramer Japan
Center for Friction Materials,SIU research Instrumentation
Multiple systems in forestry industry in New Zealand , mainly for the the testing of
radiata pine.
Ultrasonic testing instrumentation of lobsters at Cleawater,Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada
Ultrasonic air-coupled multi-channel system for the composite rods,Stavanger, Norway
Large 16 channel system monitoring impregnation of prepreg in Oestringen , Germany
Air coupled system 8 channels atUniversity of nantes, France