Founded and grew metallurgical engineering company, Martin MetLabs, for 20 years * Forensic metallurgist/failure analyst * Performs failure analysis on a wide variety of industrial machinery including turbo-machinery * Operational in a range of alloy systems including nickel base super alloys, titanium, cobalt, steel and stainless steel * Knowledgeable with forgings, castings, coatings, welds, surface treatments and others * Expert fractographer * Twenty five years microscopy experience including SEM, EDS and optical microscopy Writes cogent technically "on target" reports. * Strong customer communication skills * Operational within the test lab environment using all equipment and metallurgical preparation techniques * Developed quantitative fractographic models for various alloy systems