Protective Coatings - Paint Expert Witnesses: 5

Sean Brossia, PhD, is a Corrosion, Materials, Mechanical Integrity, Reliability, and Industrial Equipment Failure expert with more than 30 years of experience across chemical, refining, pharmaceutical, paper, pipeline, manufacturing, and industrial facilities. He also has experience in aerospace, ground vehicle, agricultural and industrial equipment, biomedical implants, consumer packaging, and infrastructure assets. Through Vulcan Integrity, he provides expert witness and litigation support for matters involving corrosion damage, materials degradation, inspection adequacy, risk-based inspection, mechanical integrity, maintenance and reliability practices, material selection, and equipment failure causation.

Litigation Support - Dr. Brossia's litigation support includes case merit review, technical document review, failure analysis review, causation analysis, inspection and maintenance program evaluation, standard-of-care assessment, expert reports, rebuttal support, deposition testimony, and trial testimony. He has testified and been deposed, has supported both defense and plaintiff matters, and has never had his opinions excluded.

Dr. Brossia’s opinions are grounded in engineering principles, available data, physical evidence, operating history, inspection records, industry standards, and recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices. He is experienced with API, ASME, ASTM, AMPP/NACE, PHMSA, OSHA, EPA, PIP, and RAGAGEP-related expectations, and has participated in standards development activities.

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Dr. Brossia is known for explaining complex corrosion, materials, reliability, and mechanical integrity issues in clear, practical terms that attorneys, judges, arbitrators, and juries can understand. His background includes leadership roles in engineering, maintenance, reliability, corrosion management, fixed equipment integrity, research and development, asset integrity consulting, and corrosion monitoring technology. He is a NACE/AMPP Fellow, has over 80 publications and book chapters, and holds multiple patents related to corrosion monitoring and sensing technologies.

Litigation Support - Mr. Stein Offers consulting and expert services for attorneys on issues regarding road, street, highway, temporary traffic control, runway, and earthwork; asphalt, concrete, coatings and other construction materials; designs, plans, specifications, CPM scheduling (Primavera) and contract documents; right-of-way issues; and work zone safety. Licensed in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas, he performs contract performance forensic investigations and provides consulting, expert reports, rebuttals, and testimony if required.

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Certifications:

• Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
• Certified Primavera Basic (CPM)
• Certified Primavera Advanced (CPM)
• Certified LADOTD Structural (bridge)
• Inspector/Technician Certified Troxler
• Humboldt Nuclear Moisture/ Density Operator
• Lead Abatement
• Certified Quality Compliance Surveillance in Fossil Power Plants, Organic & Inorganic Coatings Application and Inspection
• Certified Traffic Control Supervisor
• Certified Flagger Instructor

Expert Background: Dr. Thomas L. Read is the Principal and CEO at A. Read Consulting, LLC. He received his PhD. from Stanford University in 1972 and has over 25 years of manufacturing experience in electronics, metallurgy, factory safety, failure analysis, glass fracture, glass failure and bottle failure. As a member of the electronics industry, he has earned process patents and has an extensive background in manufacturing techniques. In parallel, Dr. Read has spent over twenty five years as a consultant to attorneys and engineers. He has given more than 100 depositions and has appeared in court numerous times. Company Profile: Read Consulting, LLC is a full service laboratory providing services in the following areas:

• Failure Analysis; Factory Safety and Personal Injury (including machine guards and manufacturing safety)
• Glass Failure Analysis - Glass Fracture, Glass Failures and Bottle Failure
• Metal and Ceramic Failure
• Grinding Wheel Failures
• Intellectual Property and Patent Disputes
• Product Liability and Product Quality
• Manufacturing Disagreements (such as Intellectual Property, Failed equipment and Contract Disputes)
• Reverse Engineering

Meyer R. Rosen, FRSC, FAIC, CPC, CChE, is a leading creative consultant for the Legal Profession and specialty Chemical / Personal Care Industries. He is the Founder & President of Interactive Consulting, Inc. (www.chemicalconsult.com). 

Meyer is a Forensic Litigation expert for both plaintiff and defense in hazardous chemicals, products liability, personal injury, spa injuries, bleaching, hair coloring, fires and explosions, intellectual property and trade secret cases. He also provides Technical Marketing, New Business Development, Technical Consulting and Professional Editing services internationally to the Specialty Chemical, Personal Care, Cosmetic, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Allied Industries. 

Meyer also has 15 years of experience as a Professor of Fire Technology at Westchester Community College. Mr. Rosen is Editor- in- Chief of Harry’s Cosmeticology, 9th Ed. A 2,600-page trilogy on all aspects of the cosmetic industry (www.harryscosmeticology.com)’ as well as being Emeritus-Editor-in-Chief for EuroCosmetics magazine (Germany) and Editor-in-Chief of the Delivery System Handbook. 

Technology Expertise (Intellectual Property/Chemical Industry): Mr. Rosen provides consultation and litigation support in patent infringement, trade secret issues, and licensing matters. His scientific areas of expertise include, but are not limited to:

• Organosilicones: Surfactants, Emulsions, Foams, Antifoams, Silane Coupling Agents
• Water Soluble Polymers, Poly(ethylene oxide), Polyethylene Glycol, and Poly (acrylamide) and Water Insoluble Polymers
• Colloid and Surface Chemistry: Stability of Dispersions, Wetting & Spreading Phenomena, Suspensions & Emulsions, Clays, Paint & Coatings, Personal Care, Cosmetics
• Flocculating and Coagulating Agents
• Applied Rheology, Rheology Modification of Aqueous & Non-Aqueous Media

Certifications:

• Chartered Chemist and Fellow: Royal Society of Chemistry – London
• Nationally Certified Professional Chemist and Professional Chemical Engineer
• Fire and Explosion Expert (Advanced Training)
• Fellow: American College of Forensic Examiners
• Fellow: American Institute of Chemists
• Diplomate: American Board of Forensic Examiners
• Diplomate: American Board of Forensic Engineering and Technology

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Randy Phares has been retained in 57 expert witness matters as of this posting and counting — 41 for plaintiffs, 16 for defendants. He has been deposed 8 times and provided trial testimony twice. No opinion of his has ever been limited, excluded, or disqualified.

He is not an academic. Randy spent 30 years running the operations he now analyzes — corrugated and folding carton manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, load securement and shipping — rising from general laborer to the youngest and highest-paid General Manager at Temple-Inland, a Fortune 1000 corporation. He has held almost every job in packaging operations: manufacturing, distribution, sales, design, safety, transportation, and running entire multinational business units. That operational history is why his opinions rest on industry custom and practice, and the standard of care actually applied on plant floors and loading docks.

He has run packaging testing labs and design centers, managed truck fleets and manufacturing machinery, and led world-class packaging operations. He holds U.S. Patent #5,672,412 for a recyclable corrugated pallet, cited in 36 subsequent patents. He has worked on projects in Asia, Jamaica, Afghanistan, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, the United States, and Canada. He is a published international author, a speaker, and a former President of the South Texas Manufacturers Association. Since 2019, he has been a Packaging and Procurement Subject Matter Expert for SGS-Maine Pointe — the #1 supply chain consulting firm per Consulting.us and one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms of 2022 per Forbes — saving clients over $10 million.

Honors and Awards — Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Manufacturing, presented by the Global Six Sigma and Business Improvement Awards, for a plant turnaround at Temple-Inland (now International Paper). Best Performing Plant Award for four consecutive years out of 26 plants at Gaylord Container (now International Paper).

Litigation Support — Randy Phares performs forensic analysis of packaging, loading, unloading, and distribution failures that caused damage or injury. Matters involve crated, baled, palletized, unitized, banded, or boxed products; loads in railcars, trucks, vans, and parcel trucks; warehouse racking and storage collapse; and injuries involving pallet jacks, forklifts, or manual handling. His services include comprehensive reporting, depositions, consulting, and trial testimony. He accepts both plaintiff and defense retentions.

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