Tom Taormina brings a unique history and expansive experience to rapidly analyzing problems, diagnosing solutions and working with businesses to achieve measurable improvements in their key success indicators. As a 14-year member of NASA’s Mission Control Team, he heard the words “Houston, we have a problem” first hand and was a member of the Apollo 13 recovery team. Over four decades, he has also performed quality audits, lead process improvement initiatives, and performed product liability investigations at nearly 600 companies.

 

As an accomplished author, Foreseeable Risk is his eleventh book. It shares extensive experiential data with enlightened litigators for dominating the outcome of products liability and organizational negligence litigation.

 

Tom is the founder of The Taormina Group. His partner and CEO, Grady Ferguson, also worked at Mission Control Houston, but went on to found, grow, and sell two manufacturing and service companies that modeled excellence and risk avoidance. They are the creators of Forensic Business Pathology®, a new secret weapon for litigation concerning products liability and organizational negligence, and for deconstructing liability in manufacturing and service companies.

 

The Taormina Group presents a unique resource of proverbial “rocket scientists” to offer strategic and tactical solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems, like bringing the Apollo 13 astronauts home from almost-certain disaster.

 

Professional Certifications:

Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants, 1999

Certified Professional Consultant to Management by The National Bureau of Certified Consultants, 2000 (Merged with IMC)

Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, American Society for Quality, 1996

 

Subject Matter Expert in:

• Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management

• Quality Standards, Quality Processes and Methods

• ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 9001:2008, AS9100, TS16949

• Quality Management System Auditing

• Manufacturing, Manufacturing Management

• Manufacturing Standards and Methods

• Business Processes, Business Process Improvement

• Standard of Care, Foreseeable Risk, Organizational Liability

• Amateur (Ham) Radio

 

The Taormina Group’s propriety investigative methodology is branded Forensic Business

Pathology®. It is so unique; The Bar Association of San Francisco has created a new category for them in their Expert’s Directory: ”Organizational Liability Assessment.”

 

Client List

3-D Protection Systems,  Portland, OR (Fire Protection Systems)

Addi Galleries, Reno, NV and Maui, HI (Art Gallery)

Altair Nanotechnologies, Reno, NV  (Pharmaceuticals and Nano-Materials)

American Productivity & Quality Center,  Houston, TX  (Training and Benchmarking)

American Structural Composites, Reno, NV (Prefabricated Housing)

Anadrill Schlumberger, Sugar Land, TX (Oilfield Testing)

Atlantic American Insurance Co., Atlanta, GA (Stock Transfer Agent)

AUS Corporation, Irvine, CA (Pollution Control Equipment)

BioDiesel Solutions, Sparks, NV (Renewable Energy)

Buildings & Dwellings, Reno, NV (General Contractor) 

Burlington Northern Railroad, Ft. Worth, Texas

Buyer Agents, Reno, NV (Real Estate)

Cardinal Investment Services, Paxton, MA (Stock Transfer Agent)

Click-Bond, Carson City, NV (Aerospace Fasteners)

Close Precision Machining, Carson City, NV (Machine Shop)

Colonial Stock Transfer, Salt Lake City, UT (Stock Transfer Agent)

Computer Technology Solutions, Houston, TX (Electronics Manufacturing)

Concentric Systems, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (Computer Systems)

Controlomatics, Cedar Knolls, NJ (Control Systems Software)

Coors Technical Ceramics, Benton, AR (Ceramics Manufacturing)

Custom Stamping, Carson City, NV and Covina, CA (Precision Stamping)

Dell Computer, Dell University, Round Rock, TX

Dell Computer, Supplier Quality, Austin, TX 

Dell Computer, Asset Recovery Business, Austin, TX

Dell Computer, Global Business Process Improvement, Round Rock, TX

Dura-Bond Bearing Company, Carson City, NV

Electro-Spec, Houston, TX (Electronics Mfg.)

ESG Companies, Reno, NV (Fire Protection Systems)

Evco Plastics, Reno, NV (Plastics Extrusion)

Ford Motor Credit Company, Dearborn, MI

Fluke Biomedical, Carson City, NV (Medical Testing Devices)

GalleryRow.com, Reno, NV (e-Commerce)

Guera & Moore, Harlingen, TX (Expert Witness)

Hamilton McMahon Ltd (Expert Witness)

IDB Systems, Richardson, TX (Electronics Mfg.)

IP Unity, Milpitas, CA (Voice Over Internet)

Innotrac Direct Marketing, Reno NV (Fulfillment Center)

International Game Technology (IGT), Reno, NV (Gaming Machines)

Keller Realty, Reno, NV (Property Management)

KPS-3 Marketing, Reno, NV (Marketing & Communications)

Magnetic Instruments, Brenham, TX (Machine Shop)

Management Assistance Partnership (MAP) Reno, NV (Workshops and Consulting)

Med-X, Minden, NV (Carbon Composite Surgical Instruments)

Merrill Lynch Investment Banking, New York, NY

Merrill Lynch Investment Partners, New York, NY

Merrill Lynch Financial Data Services, Jacksonville, FL 

Morrison University, Reno, NV (Business Training)

Microwave Data Systems, Rochester, NY (Electronics Mfg.)

Mountain West Systems, Salt Lake City, UT (Fire Protection Systems)

NASA, Johnson Space Center,  Houston, TX

National Home Improvement,  Spring, TX (Home Remodeling)

Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno, NV (Seminars and Workshops)

North Valley Precision Products, Reno, NV (Sheet Metal Shop)

PFPC, Warwick, RI (Financial Services)

pHenominal, LLC, Grass Valley, CA (Etiological Products)

Preferred Partnership Services, Freemont, CA (Stock Transfer Agent)

Productivity, Inc., Norwalk, CT (Seminars)

Promenade on the River, Reno, NV (Senior Living)

River Oaks Partnerships, Inc., Carlstadt, NJ (Investment Partnership Services) 

Rosenthal & Watson, PC, Austin, TX (Expert Witness)

RLD Systems, Salem, OR (Fire Protection Systems)

Quebecor Printing USA, Fernley, NV (Printing)

Roland DGA, Irvine, CA (Commercial Printers)

SAI Software Consultants, Kingwood, TX (Technical Personnel Staffing) 

Schlumberger Well Services, Sugar Land, TX (Oilfield Services) 

Sensient Dehydrated Flavors, Turlock, CA

Shareholder Communications Corp., New York, NY, (Investment Partnership Services)

Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, AZ, (Expert Witness)

Standard Registrar & Transfer, Draper, UT, (Investment Partnership Services)

Sunnytech Computers, Teterboro, NJ and Norcross, GA (Computer Systems)

The Eads Company, Houston, TX (Oil Field Distribution) 

Taiyo America, Carson City, NV (Circuit Board Ink)

Tolson, USA, Houston, TX (Commodities Trading)

Tri-Lumina, Reno, NV (Laser Products)

Truckee Precision, Reno, NV  (Sheet metal)

VMX Corporation, Dallas, TX (Electronics Mfg.) 

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Sparks, NV (Drug distribution) 

 

CASES:

Expert Witness Case History

 

Alvarez v. Tech Spray, et al; In the District Court of Maricopa County, Arizona, Case # CV-04-305-TUC-RCC

 

Amador Garza, et al v. Schumacher Electrical Corporation, et al; In the 79th Judicial Court, Jim Wells County, TX, Case No. 09-07-48156-CV

 

Arias v. Beijing Tire, et al. In the Texas Southern District Court of Nueces County, Case #5:2009cv0072

 

Diana Alcala, et al v. Cardinal Health, Inc et al; In the District Court of Cameron County, Texas, 404th Judicial District, Cause No. 2006-09-4487G

 

Elisa Rodriguez, et al v. Wal-Mart Stores, et al; In the 93rd Judicial Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, Cause No. C-1269-01B

 

Gatekeeper Inc., v. Computer Technology Associates Inc.; In the United States District Court for the Eastern Division of Virginia, Case No 1:08-CV-00385

 

James Souder, et al v. Lakewood Engineering and Manufacturing Company, et al; In the 62nd Judicial District Court of Lamar County, Texas, Cause No. 75364

 

Jason Carl Rhoudes et al; v. Watts Treating Chemicals, Inc., et al; In the 32nd District Court of Nolan County, Texas, Cause No 18,567; 18,498; 18,509

 

Joanne Sprechman v. Sondra Heydt, et al; In the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for Washoe County, Case No. CV7-01569, Dept. No. 6

 

LG Chem America, Inc. v. RKB Internationl, Inc, et al; In the Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, Department B, Case No. NC051164

 

MgO USA, LLC v. MAGWALL, LLC, et al; In the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for Washoe County, Case No. CV9-01144

 

Nelda Beatrice Martin, et al v. Westex Capital Ltd., et al; In the 81st District Court of Karnes County, Texas, Cause #05-06-00095CVK

 

Stuart Schuster v. American Honda Motor Company, et al; In the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, 96th Judicial District, Cause #096-211755-05

 

Thomas S. Taormina v. Storey County; United States District Court, District of Nevada, Reno, NV, Case No. 3:09-CV-00021-LRH-VPC

 

Titanium Metals Corporation v. Globe Metallurgical, Inc.; In the District Court, Clark County, Nevada, Case No. A435651, Department XIII

 

Tracy Gene Bagwell, et al v. Rival Consumer Sales Corporation, et al; In the United States District Court for the Southern Division of Texas, Houston Division, Civil Action No. 4:06-03595

 

Victor Hamilton, et al v. Cooper Wiring Devices,Inc.; In the United States Court, Southern District, Houston Division, Civil Action No. H-06-4063

 

The Estates of Jose Hernandez, et al v. WalMart Stores, Inc, General Foam Plastics Corp, et al; In the "Court of Common Pleas," Philadelphia County, PA, NO 090601073