Founder of Apex Reliability Engineering. Practitioner first: analyses run in real plants, tools built from real friction.
"Smart people, world-class equipment, the same reliability problems as every plant."
Mike has heard that line in every kind of plant: Navy flight lines, semiconductor fabs, food production floors. The questions are always the same: where do we start, who has time, and how do we make it stick.
Apex exists to answer them. Mike has spent 15+ years keeping plants running, from Navy aircraft to semiconductor fabs to food production lines, and has published one complete RCM analysis end to end so others can see how the work really goes. He builds the templates and libraries that make rigorous reliability methods usable for engineers who don't have a reliability department behind them.
CMRT (SMRP Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician) · UE Systems Ultrasound Level I (Airborne & Structure-Borne) · 15+ years in maintenance and reliability across food manufacturing and semiconductor fabrication.
Started on the flight line: U.S. Navy Avionics Technician and decorated Plane Captain, where a missed fault isn't downtime, it's an aircraft.
When the work calls for hands, he brings a full failure-analysis bench: power quality, ultrasound, thermal imaging, motor testing, and component-level electronics work.