• Automotive
• Chemical
• Construction Equipment
• Health Care
• Packaging (various industries including Appliances, Beverage, Biomedical, Bottled Gases, Consumer Products, Household Products, Industrial Instruments, Medical, Personal Computing, Pharmaceutical, Processed Foods, Shipping)
• Petroleum
• Technology

This expert has a B.S. in Packaging from Michigan State University.

This expert specializes in protective packaging design and development, logistics hazards measurement and quantification, test procedure development (focused simulation), and technology update and training. Further expertise includes packaging situation analysis, related services, testing services, and expert witness.

Specialization includes packaging science, computer applications for packaging, packaging dynamics, and transport packaging. Further specialization includes packaging handling and logistics engineering, pre-shipment test procedures, packaging cushion material, and shock performance evaluation. Other related fields of expertise include vibration environment in freight cars, package drop tests, package handling in less-than-truckload shipments, simulation measurement, and test development.

This expert has conducted numerous studies in areas including sensor based computer protective package testing, product protection, shock, and vibration. Further studies are unit load stacking, unit load and vehicle vibration, medical device transport packaging, and distribution hazard measurement. Other related studies include small parcel system vibration environment quantification, strategic transport packaging performance, packaging technology and science, optimized, functional transit packaging, and package vibration tests.

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Adjunct Faculty, Packaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Vice President, Technical Services, Lansmont Corporation, Lansing, MI

Faculty, Michigan State University School of Packaging, East Lansing, MI

Specialist, Academic Advisor, temporary faculty

Manufacturers’ Representative, RDP Corporation

Senior Associate Packaging Engineer, IBM Corporation, Rochester, MN

CONSULTING

Aastrom Biosciences, Abbott/Ross Products, Amway Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Baxter Health Care, Blue Rhino, Boston Scientific, Bradford Company, Canon Communications, Church & Dwight, Cummins, Dell, Delphi Automotive, Diamond Walnut, Dupont, Eastman Kodak, Ethicon EndoSurgery, ExxonMobil, GE Medical Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Home Decorators Collection, IBM, Intel, ISTA, Johnson and Johnson, Knape & Vogt, Kraft Foods, LAB Equipment, Lansmont, Lorin Industries, Masco/Zenith Products, Maytag, McNeil Consumer Products, Packaging Corporation of America, Pfaltzgraff, QVC Network, Siemens, Signode, Sonoco Products, Steelcase, Stryker Instruments, Tyco/Valleylab, United Parcel Service

SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND PRESENTATIONS WORLDWIDE

American Furniture Manufacturers' Association, China Packaging Research and Testing Center (CPRTC), Tianjin, China, CETRA - Republic of China, CETEA- Sao Paulo, Brazil, EPS Expo, Forest Products Society, HealthPak, Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP), International Safe Transit Association (ISTA), Japan Packaging Institute, Lansmont Seminar Series, Massey University - New Zealand, Materials Handling Industry Forum, Michigan State University, Michigan Medical Device Manufacturers and Suppliers Association, National Institute of Packaging, Handling and Logistics Engineers, Pira International - Leatherhead, United Kingdom, Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging Symposium, Rochester Institute of Technology – Packaging Science, Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, Singapore Productivity and Standards Board, Small Parcel Shipping Conference, Strategic Forum Expertise - Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, Technonet - Asia, University of Wisconsin-Extension, Victoria University of Technology – Melbourne, Wood Packaging Technology Conference

Numerous publications on pre-shipment test procedures, packaging cushion material, shock performance evaluation, vibration environment in freight cars, package drop tests, package handling in less-than-truckload shipments, simulation measurement, test development, sensor based computer protective package testing, product protection, shock, vibration, unit load stacking, unit load and vehicle vibration, medical device transport packaging, distribution hazard measurement, small parcel system vibration environment quantification, strategic transport packaging performance, packaging technology and science, optimized, functional transit packaging, and package vibration tests.