Dr. Thomas L. Read, Principal
Read Consulting LLC
1435 Fulton Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
707-544-2374 Fax: 707-544-2370
Email: info@readconsulting.com
Web Site: www.ReadConsulting.com

Dr. Thomas L. Read, CEO of Read Consulting received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1972. He has over 30 years of manufacturing experience in electronics, metallurgy, factory safety, failure analysis, glass fracture, glass failure & bottle failure. As a member of the electronics industry, Dr. Read has earned process patents & has an extensive background in manufacturing techniques. In parallel, he has spent over twenty five years as a consultant to attorneys & engineers in the areas of failure analysis, metallurgy, glass fracture, glass failure, bottle failure, factory safety, manufacturing problems, intellectual property & patent disputes. During this time he has made numerous depositions & court appearances. Below is a partial list of the types of cases he has worked on:

  • Failure Analysis; Factory Safety & Personal Injury
    (included are machine guards & manufacturing safety)
  • Glass Failure Analysis
  • Glass Fracture
  • Glass Failures
  • Bottle Failure
  • Metal Failures
  • Ceramic Failures
  • Grinding Wheel Failures
  • Intellectual Property & Patent Disputes
  • Product Liability & Product Quality
  • Manufacturing Disagreements
    (i.e. Intellectual property, failed equipment & contract disputes).
  • Evaluation of manufacturing capabilities
    (for banks & other financial institutions)
  • Reverse Engineering
ACADEMIC DEGREES
  • Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering
    Stanford University, 1972

  • MS Materials Science
    Stanford University, 1969

  • BS Metallurgical Engineering
    University of Pennsylvania, 1965

  • Diploma, Metallurgy
    Tercer Curso Pan Americano de Metallurgica
    Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1968
    (Fluent in written & spoken Spanish)
LICENSE
  • Registered Professional Engineer
    Certificate No. MF002174
    State of California
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Read Consulting has over 30 years of manufacturing experience in electronics & materials engineering, & over 20 years of experience as a consultant to attorneys in accident reconstruction, product liability & other litigation, including numerous depositions & court appearances.

    Thomas L. Read, PhD., CEO
    1975 - Present Engineering Consultant in private practice with attorneys & insurance adjusters. Litigation-related practice includes plaintiff & defense clients in approximately equal numbers. Included are numerous depositions & trial appearances.

  • 1993 - 2001 Chief Metallurgist
    Komag Materials Technology Inc.
    Santa Rosa, CA

  • 1988 - 1993 Senior Thin Film Project Engineer
    Deposition Sciences Inc.
    Santa Rosa, CA

  • 1984 - 1988 Thin Film Circuit Engineer
    Reliability Engineer
    MicroWave Technology Inc.
    Fremont, CA

  • 1975 - 1984 Project Manager
    Project Engineer
    Hewlett Packard
    Santa Rosa, CA

  • 1974 - 1975 Senior Project Engineer
    Optical Coating Laboratories Inc.
    Santa Rosa, CA

  • 1972 - 1974 Senior Process Engineer
    Corning Glass Works
    Corning, N.Y.
    Included glass finishing process development & glass failure analysis

  • 1969 - 1972 Engineering Consultant
    Failure Analysis Associates
    Stanford, CA
    Aided engineers with failure analysis of materials


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