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A. Monroe Snider, Ph.D.

Snider Scientific Consulting Group, LLC

 

Member profile details

First name
A. Monroe
Last name
Snider, Ph.D.
Organization
Snider Scientific Consulting Group, LLC
 

Contact information

City
Pittsburgh
State or Province
Pennsylvania
Zip Code
15238
Country
United States
Phone
(412) 901-0400
 

Specialties and Services

Fields of Expertise
  • Analytical
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Environmental & Safety
  • Expert Witness
  • Manufacturing
  • Pigments and Inks
  • Polymers
  • Product Development
  • Research and Development
  • Spectroscopy
Other Fields of Expertise
Adhesion failure/adhesion problems/delamination
Analytical chemistry/methods of analysis
Asbestos
Competitive intelligence/competitive product analysis
Crisis problem solving
Deformulation/ reverse engineering
Environmental pollution/environmental contamination
Expert witness/litigation support
Failure analysis/cause of failure
Gases
Glass/glass products
Identity of product manufacturer (product "paternity")
Joint compound/spackling compound
Lead/mercury/heavy metals
Lead paint
Materials
Paint/coatings/paint failure
Patent infringement/trade secret theft
Plaster/stucco
Product adulteration/product contamination/product failure
Silica
Surface contamination/surface analysis
Toxic exposure
Unusual, novel problems
Summary
MISSION

Snider Scientific Consulting Group, LLC provides to attorneys, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, research laboratories, and other clients consulting services that meet the highest standards of competence, professionalism, confidentiality, and integrity.
Services
Litigation Support/Expert Witness

Provide expert witness and consulting services in cases involving trade secret theft, patent infringement, product failure, environmental contamination, workplace contamination, toxic exposure, and paint. Services include document review, research of technical issues, field site visits, strategy development assistance, laboratory testing/analysis, expert reports, trial preparation, deposition, and testimony. High skill in translating technical jargon into layman language and in communicating to laymen the central scientific issues in the case at hand.
Consulting

Provide technical leadership, sound experienced expertise to supplement in-house resources in solving problems in manufacturing and product development. Heavy experience in determination of the root cause of product and process failure. Can provide fresh, independent insight and outside-the-box thinking to unstick stalled projects or solve stubborn problems that have defied solution by in-house staff.
 

Additional Information

Additional Info
BACKGROUND:

Snider Scientific Consulting Group, LLC was founded and is managed by A. Monroe Snider, Ph.D. Dr. Snider graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a Ph.D. in chemistry and post-doctoral studies in material science at the University of Pittsburgh. Employment has included technical and leadership positions in Mellon Institute, Merck, General Electric, PPG Industries, and RJ Lee Group and teaching at Robert Morris University and the Illinois Institute of Technology. His 30-plus years of technical work have focused on the development and application of diverse analytical techniques for bulk materials, surfaces and interfaces, and trace analytes. He has applied these techniques to solve a wide range of practical problems in basic and applied research, product development, manufacturing processes, product failure, product contamination, environmental pollution, and forensics. Dr. Snider is a seasoned expert witness and consultant in litigation that hinges on technical/scientific issues.

Lists of professional memberships, publications, and patents and vita are available upon request.
Experience
EXAMPLES OF COMPLETED PROJECTS:

Assessed toxic substance contamination in Manhattan buildings that resulted from the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center to support $1B litigation.
Developed and applied analytical methodology that demonstrated that defendant companies did not manufacturer asbestos-containing products that were the basis of multimillion dollar lawsuits.
Served as expert witness and advisor for plaintiff in successful $100M suit over theft of trade secret dealing with coating formulation.
Developed and applied analytical methodology that determined the identity and source of adulterant in pharmaceutical tablets.
Served as expert witness and consultant for defendant in successful defense in case of alleged injury from toxic exposure in workplace.
Determined cause of delamination of long-warrantee coating on exterior of skyscraper building leading to settlement of $40M claim.
Determined cause of explosion on and loss of oceangoing tanker.
Determined cause of staining of stucco on exterior of building complexes.
Invented a novel system for producing versatile visual displays in transparent panels.
Determined composition of historic building materials to permit repairs to U.S. Supreme Court Building using authentic materials.
Education
Post-Doctoral Study, Materials Science University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
M.A., Chemistry Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
M.Ed., Science Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Chemistry-Biology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patents
Walk, Scott D. and Snider, Albert Monroe, Jr., 2007
Image Display System Utilizing Light Emitting Material, United States Patent 230767, publication date 06/12/2007.

Walk, Scott D. and Snider, Albert Monroe, Jr., 2005
Image Display System Utilizing Light Emitting Material, United States Patent 6979499, publication date 03/30/2005.

Walk, Scott D. and Snider, Albert Monroe, Jr., 2004
Image Display System Utilizing Light Emitting Material, United States Patent 0070551, publication date 04/15/2004.

Snider, Albert Monroe, Jr., 2002
Head-up Display System Utilizing Fluorescent Material, United States Patent 0120916, publication date 08/29/2002.
Publications
Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 2012.
X-ray Analysis, Chapter 77, Gardner-Sward Paint and Coatings Testing Manual, 15th Edition.

Li, Xiaoming; Snider, A. Monroe, Jr.; Schiferl, David, 1999.
Determination of the Oxidation States of Tin, Sulfur, and Iron As a Function of Depth in the 'Tin-Side' Surface of Commercial Float Glass by X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) Spectroscopy, PPG Technology Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 31-41.

Stevens, J. G.; Khasanov, A. M.; Snider, A. M., 1998.
Investigation of Commercial Float Glass Using 119Sn Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Sixth Latin American Conference on Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, September 13-19.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1995.
X-ray Analysis, Chapter 77, Gardner-Sward Paint and Coatings Testing Manual, 14th Edition, pp. 871-887.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1992.
X-ray Techniques for Coatings Analysis, Analysis of Paints and Related Materials: Current Techniques for Solving Coatings Problems, America Society for Testing and Materials, Special Technical Publication, ASTM STP 1119, pp. 82-104.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1991.
Solving Practical Coatings Problems, Journal of Coatings Technology, Vol. 5, pp. 19-26.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1990.
X-ray Techniques for Coatings Analysis, Symposium on Analysis of Paints, American Society for Testing and Materials, Pittsburgh, PA, May 14-15.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1989.
Solving Practical Coatings Problems, Proceedings of Seminar on Modern Analysis Resources: The Paint Chemists Ally, Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, Los Angeles, CA, May 16-17.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr.; Bloom, Mark Z., 1983.
Acrylamide[(methacryloyloxy)ethyl]trimethylammonium Methyl Sulfate Copolymer by Infrared Spectrometry, Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 402-403.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1977.
The Strange Case of the Non-Drying Topcoat, American Painting Contractor, October, pp. 20-22.

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr.; Krause, Paul F.; Miller, Foil A., 1976.
Vibrational Spectra and Assignments for Tetrachloro- and Tetraiodoallene, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 80, No. 11, pp. 1262-1265

Snider, A. Monroe, Jr.; Miller, Foil A., 1974.
Raman Depolarization Ratios and the Symmetry of Silicon Tetraisocyanate and Germanium Tetraisocyanate, Spectroscopy Symposium, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June.

Miller, Foil A.; Snider, A. Monroe, Jr., 1974.
Raman Depolarization Ratios and the Symmetry of Silicon Tetraisocyanate and Germanium Tetraisocyanate, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 377-380.

Rhee, Kee H.; Snider, A. Monroe, Jr.; Miller, Foil A., 1973.
Infrared and Raman Spectra and Structure of Phosphorus Tetrafluoride, Spectrochimica Acta, Part A, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 1029-35.
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