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In the United States he has provided consulting services to Food and Drug Administration regulated Medical and Pharmaceutical Device Companies.
In the United States he has provided consulting services to Food and Drug Administration regulated Medical and Pharmaceutical Device Companies.
He worked for Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson Medical and Pharmaceutical Products Company for 21 years. In his last 15 years (1972 to 1993) Melveger managed a staff of 30 technical and professional personnel in the Analytical and Characterization Sciences Department of Ethicon, Incorporated. On retirement in 1994 he formed his own consulting firm AJM TECHNICAL CONSULTING. Melveger has traveled the globe from Argentina to Pakistan performing consulting services for their medical devices and pharmaceutical industries.
He has provided expert opinions and testimony in patent, product liability and related litigation.
Alvin Joseph Melveger (accent on the first "e") was born in New York City in 1937 and graduated from the prestigious, science-oriented Stuyvesant High School in 1955. He received his bachelor"s degree in chemistry at Brooklyn College in 1959.
He went on to earn a master"s degree in chemistry at Northeastern University, Boston, in 1964, and a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry at the University of Maryland in 1968. Doctor Melveger was the project manager of funded research programs at The Rutgers University Center of Biomaterials.
He was Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at County College of Morris (1992).
And William Paterson University (2003). Earlier in his career, Doctor Melveger worked for ALLIED CHEMICAL. The Alloy Valves and Control CORP. And taught at the University of Maryland"s Department of Chemistry.
Other positions were Company-Chairman of the Committee on Education and Training of the New Jersey Research & Development council. Chairman of the American Microchemical Society. And member of the Mount Olive Township (New Jersey) Environmental Commission (1991—2000).