About the Instructor. 

Ron Joseph M.S. was Principal at Ron Joseph & Associates, Inc., a coating and environmental consulting firm in Saratoga, California. Ron is currently a Senior Managing Engineer at Exponent, Inc. A former Certified Manufacturing Engineer, AFP/SME, Mr. Joseph has devoted his career to the coatings industry and is uniquely qualified to present this course. For several years he has worked with air quality management districts in California to compile environmental rules for industrial coatings, and he frequently represents industry's problems before regulatory agencies.

Working closely with both commercial and military organizations, he has helped numerous companies to get into compliance by filing for variances, establishing equivalency plans, and selecting and implementing compliant coating systems. He has developed and presented several training programs on VOC compliance for corporations, government agencies, local air quality management districts, and the EPA.

Mr. Joseph's experience includes several years as a technical consultant for a large paint manufacturing company, and subsequently as Manager of Coatings Technologies for the FMC Corporation. In 1984 he established his own consulting firm which consults to coating manufacturers, users of coatings, government agencies, equipment suppliers and similar organizations. He has conducted numerous application trials using compliant coatings from suppliers throughout the US. He is an expert on the measuring of Transfer Efficiency on production lines, and on calculating VOC compliance as it pertains to paints and coatings facilities.

He developed the first EPA training program "Getting into Compliance with Air Quality Regulations for Paints and Coatings Facilities", and presented this to most EPA and state agencies. The program has also been presented to several hundred environmental coordinators, environmental consultants, plant managers, and environmental lawyers. A shorter version of the program has been given to several hundred spray painters, paint foremen, supervisors, etc.

He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and an M.S. degree in Corrosion Science from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, England. He is a past (delete) member of the executive committee of (delete) the Air and Waste Management Association, Golden West Section, and is a frequent speaker at international finishing conferences. He has written more than 20 papers for publication, and is the Organic Coatings for the Metal Finishing Journal and the Organic Coatings Guidebook and Directory.

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