I have become an expert at failure analysis due to an unorthodox ability to envision how things should work.
Techniques Doug Kristof Uses:
I try to see the entire picture of the system involved to determine what most likely is malfunctioning based on the nature of the initial peril. I hava a multi-tasking mindset that reviews several scenarios simultaneously.
Doug Kristof's Problem Solving Skills:
- Applications Engineer
- Proficient with determining the extent of damage to a system based on the cause of the failure.
- Proficient in controlling disaster sites by quickly analyzing local talent
- Proficient with all types of electrical equipment
- Experience researching cause and origin and extent of damage
- Recognized expert witness in federal, state, and local court systems
- Ability to lead diverse teams through complex projects from concept to satisfactory completion
- Creative and innovative problem solving capability
- Proficient fire investigator
Doug Kristof's Problem Solving Experience:
- Determined that water was the cause of failure and not an electrical problem at an apartment complex.
- Determined that multiple machinery failures were due to sabotage and not natural causes.
- Determined that fire was the result of lost grounding and not the improper attachment of utility power.
- Determined that lost data was the responsibilty of the maintenance engineers and not the installation engineers in landmark data loss trial.
- Determined how a different PC could be used on a large printing press at one-quarter the cost and two weeks faster than the original replacement.
- Determined that a constant telephone system failure was due to improper grounding and not just serendipity.
- Determined that a large machine tool problem was an intermittent and maintenance problem, not a serious breakdown.
- Rebuilt the analog controls in a church organ after a lightning strike to the bell tower.
- Determined cause of transformer explosion on a campus at a community college in NW Ohio.
- Investigated an explosion in an underground conduit system at a hospital in NW Indiana that turned out to be a steam explosion.