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The Management & Advisors

The management team, led by Robert M. Bernstein, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board since 1988, is a group of experienced executives, engineers and consultants with specific backgrounds in transportation, engineering and technology. In addition, renowned experts in infrastructure, bridge design and construction, multi-disciplinary endeavors, and chief researcher for EFS.


Management

Robert M. Bernstein
CEO and Chairman

Marybeth Miceli

Chief Operating Officer

Brent M. Phares, Ph.D., P.E.
Chief Engineer

William I. Berks
Project Manager

Monty Moshier, Ph.D.
Chief Technologist

Advisors

Samuel I. Schwartz, P.E.

Campbell Laird, Ph.D.

Gary Hoffman, P.E.

Ted Nicholas, Ph.D.

Andrew Whitney, Ph.D.


Bob Bernstein, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board,
received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1956. In 1985, he formed a research and development partnership for Tensiodyne Corp., MATECH's predecessor, funding approximately $750,000 for research on the Fatigue Fuse. In 1988 he became President and CEO of MATECH. Since that time Mr. Bernstein has been responsible for obtaining in excess of $8,000,000 from the US Government for research and development, congressional sponsorship for the technology, US Airforce interest for using the technology in its aging aircraft project, and support from the Federal Highway Administration for Bridge Monitoring Systems.
Marybeth Miceli, Chief Operating Officer,
has over 12 years experience in nondestructive evaluation and testing of civil infrastructure. She was formerly the Director of Infrastructure Engineering for Sam Schwartz Engineering PLLC in New York City. Prior to her time there, she worked for Lucius Pitkin, Inc. where she was the Quality Assurance Manager and performed failure analysis and remaining life assessment of civil infrastructure and railroad assets, as well as interfaced with state and federal government agencies on safety, regulations, and testing. She is a Materials Science Engineer by training with a background in civil infrastructure, nondestructive evaluation, failure analysis, quality assurance, and transportation and traffic engineering. She has extensive experience with nondestructive evaluation management and methods and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. Ms. Miceli obtained her M.S. from Virginia Polytechnic and State University and her B.S. from The Johns Hopkins University. She has published and presented numerous papers on NDE/NDT of civil infrastructure. For further information see Resume and Profile .
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Brent M, Phares, Ph.D., P.E., Chief Engineer,
received his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in Civil Engineering – Structures in Aug., 1998. He is Associate Director for Bridges and Structures at Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research and Education where he is responsible for the daily and long-term administrative, research, and education activities related to bridges and structures. He is also Bridge Engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation, Office of Bridges and Structures, where his duties include training bridge engineering staff, conducting bridge related research, developing research funding sources, and other special projects. In these positions his responsibilities also include the development and execution of field and laboratory NDE system capability studies to determine the performance of various NDE technologies. He has been awarded grants from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Iowa Highway Research Board, and the Federal Highway Administration. He is the author of numerous technical publications and reports. For further information see Resume.
William Berks, Project Manager - Vice President and Board Member,
retired from TRW, Inc. in November 1992, after 26 years of service. Bill Berks’ last assignment was as a project manager in the Advanced Systems Division of TRW’s Space and Technology Group. He has over 30 years experience in spacecraft mechanical systems engineering, including work on large geostationary satellites, small three axis spacecraft and their subsystems, and commercial satellite operations. He has done manpower planning for spacecraft programs and flight hardware fabrication and testing. He has managed independent research and development projects (antennas, materials, solar arrays) and holds six patents. Berks also serves as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).
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Monty Moshier, Ph.D., Chief Technologist,
obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. He Managed the High Cycle Fatigue Lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory of Materials & Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. As owner of Southern Utah Engineering Experts, LLC he is responsible for the Research, Development, and Application of MATECH’s Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor.
Samuel I. Schwartz, P.E., is President of Sam Schwartz Co.,
consulting engineers, primarily in the bridge industry. He received his B.S. in Physics from Brooklyn College in 1969 and his Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. From 1986 to 1990, he was Chief Engineer/First Deputy Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation and from 1990 to the present has been a director of The Infrastructure Institute, Cooper Union College, New York City.
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Campbell Laird. Ph.D.. Chief Researcher,
received his BS in 1959, his MA in 1963 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Senior Lecturer, Cambridge College of Arts and Technology; a tutor, University of Cambridge; a Senior Research Scientist, Ford Motor Company; a Battelle Visiting Professor (Electron Microscopy), Ohio State University; a Professor, University of Pennsylvania, where he was Chairman, Department of Metallurgy & Materials Science; Gast-Professor of Physics, University of Vienna; and Visiting Professor of BioMetallurgy, University of Sorbonne, Paris. He is presently Professor and Graduate Group Chairman, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. His research has focussed on the strength, structure and fatigue of materials, in which areas he has published in excess of 250 papers.
Gary Hoffman, P.E.,

recently retired from his position as Deputy Secretary for Highway Administration after more than 30 years with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). He is a principal Engineer for the Mid – Atlantic Division and Program Manager assisting the Federal Highway Administration in implementing the “Highway for Life” program.

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Ted Nicholas, Ph.D.,

was Senior Scientist with the Air Force Materials Laboratory (AFRL) in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright Paterson Air Force Base. He is the author of over 260 technical papers as well as the co-author of two books. His major research interests have been in high cycle fatigue, foreign object damage, damage tolerance, and structural integrity and durability.

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Andrew Whitney, Ph.D.,

earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he has been working on the development of the EFS System since 1999.  He wrote his dissertation on, "Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor Study of Fatigue in Copper and Ti-6Al-4V under Variable-Amplitude Loading." Dr. Whitney is a materials fatigue expert with expertise in sensors and data acquisition.  Dr. Whitney has undergraduate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering as well as Slavic Languages and Literature from Northwestern University.  He also served three years in the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching English at a technical university in Vladivostok, Russia.  Dr. Whitney is heading up the development of several other technologies for MATECH.

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