This Ph.D. has over ten years experience working as a technical consultant in materials engineering, polymers and chemistry.  She has been a technical consultant to medical device companies ranging from start-ups to major corporations and has consulted on issues related to product liability, patent infringement and failure analysis.  She has provided technical consulting services to companies on pressure vessels and piping; consumer electronics; recreational equipment; consumer products; pharmaceutical companies, and automotive equipment.  She has been an expert witness for litigation cases involving ferrous metallurgy, corrosion and glass.  She has taught a polymers failure analysis class offered in seven cities to medical device engineers.  She is also a consultant in product development and manufacture of an over-the-counter ( OTC ) product for a skin care company.  

• Catalysis
• Corrosion
• Environmental Stress Cracking of Plastics
• Failure Analysis Metals
• Failure Analysis Polymers
• Fractography
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Materials Degradation
• Materials Engineering
• Metallurgical Engineering
• Plastics Analysis and Testing
• Polymers for Medical Devices

• M.S., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering  
• Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry
• B.S., Chemistry  

Expert Witness Services:

• Deposition
• Expert Witness Reports
• Intellectual Property
• Patent Analysis 
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Portfolio Review  
• Pre-Litigation 
• Prior Art Research
• Product Failure
• Product Liability
• Technical Consultant