| Then he was employed for
four years as a Research Chemist for RCA, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. During this time he obtained several additional patents related
to electroless platinum plating and platinum coated anodes having a polysulfone
core. For the next twelve years, he was employed by AMP, Inc. where he first
worked as a Methods Engineer (Plating), and was responsible for the plating
requirements for the Connector and Components Group. During this time, he
received numerous
cost reduction awards for the elimination of gold in areas on connectors
where gold was not necessary for part function and part durability. Later,
he supervised
several plating engineering departments, then managed a department that designed
and built plating lines and selective plating units to further minimize gold
usage. He also conducted research on pulse plating of nickel, gold and palladium,
and co-authored the world’s first textbook on pulse plating, Theory
And Practice Of Pulse Plating, with Jean Claude Puippe.
In 1981, Frank left
AMP, Inc. and became the owner and President of Electrochemical
Company, Inc., a plating job shop that applied metallic coatings by electrolytic
and electroless means per Military Specifications for decorative, electronic,
military, and aerospace applications.
In 1987, Frank founded Specialty
Testing and Development Company for the purpose of
marketing an invention of his that utilized a bent
strip
method
for measuring
the internal deposit stress of applied metallic coatings. This firm
has become a leader in tensile and compressive stress
testing of metallic
coatings applied
by electrolytic and electroless means, and markets both process and
equipment for the determination of internal deposit
stress measurements worldwide.
Frank is the firm’s CEO and President. He is also the person to
contact for help with technical questions regarding the conducting of
deposit stress tests
and
calculation of the results. |
