Industrial robots, when designed, manufactured, installed, and integrated correctly, have the potential to reduce injuries by removing humans from repetitive and sometimes dangerous work tasks.…
Todd is a Facilities Engineering and Industrial Safety Expert with over two decades of diverse experience in manufacturing and quality engineering for industrial machinery, heavy commercial vehicle components, and consumer products. As an Industrial Engineer, Todd’s manufacturing activities have required him to concentrate on factory floor safety. He has a broad background in machine guarding, industrial safeguards, personal protective equipment, training, and supervision. Todd applies his expertise to forensic casework involving personal injury and economic loss claims.
Todd’s formative years as a manufacturing engineer were spent at NACCO Materials Handling Group in a forklift manufacturing plant, granting him deep expertise in forklifts and the mechanical and hydraulic systems involved in their manufacture and in their operation. Over the course of a decade he held engineering roles responsible for painting and coating, assembly, custom fabrication, quality control, and shipping of forklifts under the Hyster and Yale brand names.
The next decade of Todd’s career was at Bendix in the manufacturing of air-powered drum and disc braking systems for semi-trucks, trailers, over the road trucks, delivery vehicles, and other heavy commercial vehicles. He expanded his expertise in the operations and safeguarding of assembly lines that involve advanced robotics, electronic measuring equipment, automated conveyors, load cells, and other pieces of sophisticated manufacturing technology. Todd has additional experience in the manufacturing of consumer products, specifically freestanding ovens.
Todd earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky. He holds certifications in Demand Flow Technology (DFT), Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma, among others. He is a Certified Internal Auditor by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) International Automotive Task Force (IATF). Todd has received OSHA and ISO training.
Background includes approximately 25 years of field applications experience, with expertise in industrial, workplace, and machine safety in a variety of manufacturing facilities and environments in the private sector.
Project management experience in industrial manufacturing facilities. Expertise in lean manufacturing practices and principles along with industrial/workplace safety and has applications experience with American Society for Quality, American National Standards Institute, American Society for Testing and Materials, International Standards Organization, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and International Automotive Task Force.
General categories of experience include, but are not limited to:
Manufacturing Processes: General machining, metal forming, grinding, soldering, aligning, workplace layout, equipment location/positioning and painting, failure modes & effects analysis, lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma applications.
Material Handling Processes: Automatic guided vehicles, forklift manufacturing and operation, forklift devices including pallet, container and drum handlers, pallet jacks, hand trucks, carts, and lifting devices.
Machinery: Cable winches, pumps, jib cranes, monorail cranes and hoists, overhead bridge cranes, presses, screw conveyors, belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors, insertion and crimping machines, roll machines, pick and place robots, extruders, and packaging equipment.
Machinery Safeguarding: Identification of hazardous actions and motions of machinery, safety interlocks, power transmission guards, point of operation guarding, pinch point guards, failsafe modes, caution and warning signs, emergency stops, lockout/tagout, safety light curtains, two-hand controls, guard doors, operation, and instruction manuals.
Safety: Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and EPA compliance, material safety data sheets (MSDS), confined space entry, hot work, electrical hazards and energy control (lockout/tagout), emergency stops, guard doors, training requirements, policies and procedures, inspections, OSHA guidelines and compliance, hazardous material handling, labeling, use, storage and disposal, proper selection, use, training and maintenance of personal protective equipment (PPE), hazard analysis, risk assessments, and fall protection.
Associate
2022 to PresentProvide technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of disputes related to facilities engineering as well as industrial, workplace, and machine safety.
Quality Manager
2020 to 2022Quality Engineering Leader and Senior Customer/Process Quality Engineer
2017 to 2020Advanced Manufacturing Engineer IV and Change Manager
Manufacturing Engineer and Change Manager
Manufacturing Engineer
Lean Manufacturing/DFT Engineer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering with Mathematics minor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Order of the Engineer
v. 08/13/23
Industrial robots, when designed, manufactured, installed, and integrated correctly, have the potential to reduce injuries by removing humans from repetitive and sometimes dangerous work tasks.…