Milo Cripps is President of Precision Research, Inc. For over 40 years Milo has been involved in an extraordinary sequence of diverse experiences in Engineering, Product Development and Manufacturing that includes: Design, Engineering, Styling, Business Formation & Start Ups, Business Planning, Cost Reduction, Aircraft, Plastics, Rubber, High Technology, Commercial Products, Medical, Agriculture, Automation, Turnkey Factory Operations, Corporate Management, Sales and Engineering and the Internet. Semiconductor, PCB Production, Disk Media & Drives, Injection Molding, Lasers, Gun Shields, Counting Machines, Silicon Rubber, High Pressure Seals, Pick & Place, Test Equipment, Planting Systems, Floor Tile manufacturing and more. England Milo Cripps graduated in England as an Aeronautical Engineer in 1959. Aircraft provided on the job experience and an education in all aspects of airframe manufacturing including: Sheet Metal, Machining, Toolmaking, Jig & Fixture, Prototype Development, Welding, Design, Planning, Inspection, QC, Plastics, Assembly, Metal Forming. Canada In 1960 Milo and his wife moved to Montreal, Canada. He initially worked for Canadair in Aircraft Production Planning. Then on to Canadian Car Co., a manufacturer of City Busses, Refrigerated Highway Trailers and Rails Freight Cars. As a Manufacturing Engineer he was involved in tooling, testing and developing conveyor operations for chemical processing, and implemented spray fiberglass operations to make body components. He was also became the youngest member of special (12) man 'Crises Team' handling day to day crisis tasks impeding production on the main assembly line. Next as a Design Engineer at LSW, Limited., a leading Canadian plastics company specializing in composite military contracts. Milo designed a unique 100 foot diameter Radome for the US Air Force. Other tasks included design of filament winding equipment and tooling. The Radome was a milestone concept requiring no internal structure, and still existed in the Aleutian Islands some 40 years later. California, U.S.A. 1961 - Moved to Los Angeles, California. Over the next eight years his career was primarily in plastics: Military, Aerospace and Commercial: Manufacturing Engineer & QC Manager: Aerospace job shop manufacturing including Gold coated panels for Satellites and umbellical tooling for Amphenol to manufacture umbellical cabling networks for early orbital spacecraft. Manufacturing & Design Engineering: Seven years in design and project engineering in molding, tooling, quality control and purchasing. Project Engineer for the Pershing Missile Warhead involving advanced filament winding of composites and aerospace structures. V.P. Engineering: Saniware - A Mobile Home Products manufacturer: Designed Water Tanks, Toilets, Valves and intricate mechanisms in Injection Molded plastics. Cripps Engineering - President: Formed the business as a design consultancy. Employed a team of 10 to 15 designers and engineers and obtained contracts from prior employers, TRW and Dept of Defence sub-contracts. Design tasks included commercial products and structures, Large Gun Shields for Battleships. Contracts encompassed: Concepts, Design, Stress Analysis, Prototype development and responsibilities in establishing manufacturing capabilities. V.P. Sales & Marketing: Olympic Plastics - A major Injection Molder of Injection, Extrusion and Blow Molding products. Increased sales from 4 million to 7 million in ten months. (1968 dollars). V.P. Manufacturing: Omnetic Industries (A Business within Olympic Plastics, see above) Fiberglass Bathtubs and Wall Panels. Evolved a conveyorized fiberglass manufacturing process to provide the ability to produce fiberglass products in high volume at low cost. Within three months established one of the very first such operations in the world and commenced production. Sales increased to over 3 million dollars/annual rate within three months of startup. Director of Engineering: Monogram Industries, Trailer Products Division. Designed one of the first recycling toilets employing Injection Molding of Valves and other intricate Mechanisms A Brief Period as an Executive Search Specialist: Morgan Samuels - Beverly Hills Executives for the Oil & Gas Industry. President: TPG Industries: Founded and Established TPG Industries (1971): The was first such facility in the World to manufacture laminated Acrylic to Fiberglass products in a fully automated conveyorized operation . Milo Cripps personally designed the automation operations and all products including Bathtubs, Sinks and Wall Panels and was awarded a major contracts by Borg Warner. Result: Sales reached over $7,000,000 in 18 months. (1973 Dollars). Precision Research closed in 1974 due to the energy crises that caused unavailability of materials, extreme cost increases and a dramatic decrease in demand due to the resulting slow down in construction. In 1974 Milo begins again Milo Cripps Associates - Management Consultant Developed manufacturing operations for major companies in England and Sweden to manufacture Bathtubs, Sinks and Accessories. Primary client in England was 'Glynwed Ltd' a major building products conglomerate. The company retained Milo Cripps to establish a new manufacturing factory in Birmingham. Assembled management staff, engineering team, and all other resources for the manufacturing operation. Within 10 months the facility was in full scale operation and selling products in the United Kingdom that reached $12,000,000 in three years. (1976 Dollars). During the next 25 years Milo continued to work on assignments for Glynwed in design, organization and marketing involving plastics and rubber manufacturing. After 1998 Glynwed underwent a major reorganization with most of it's 150 companies sold to other organizations. In 1979, Milo Cripps reinvented himself from Plastics into the High Technology arena. Precision Research, Inc: Milo established Precision Research in 1979 as consultancy providing services in Product Design & Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Planning and Management oriented to businesses involved in technical products. Over the next 28 years, Precision Research i.e. Milo invented/developed unique products, and manufacturing capabilities for clients covering a diverse range of products and disciplines that has resulted in sales exceeding $100,000,000.00 Lasers: Designed, styled, and developed the production of Laser systems including a unique moving focal point design combined with an automated rotary indexing system for marking identification on the radiused edges of computer memory disks. Result: First unit operational in 4 1/2 months and became the World leading YAG Laser for trimming of semiconductor circuits, marking wafers, computer disks and circuit components. Pick & Place Systems: Designed Pick & Place systems to transfer small 'Surface Mount' electronic components onto ceramic substrates at high speed. Design included product mechanical design and styling or the product and also directed the program from prototype into initial production. The machine included an array of new input mechanisms: Vibratory Trays, Tape Feed, Pick Up from Plastic Grids, Vertical Tubes, Air Alignment etc. Result: First unit was exhibited at Nepcon in 5 1/2 months, and over four hundred machines were sold during the next ten years. Hot Air Leveling: Designed and managed the initial development of machine through to production including: Styling and Mechanical Design. Result: Machine cost reduction of 40%, a production output gain of 100%, plus increased reliability. Result: First unit operational in 5 1/2 months, and the product became the worlds leading Hot Air Leveling machine in 1983 and was still in production in 2003. Industrial X-Ray Systems: Designed and styled an X-Ray System for detecting drugs and weapons hidden beneath clothing on people. Assisted in managing development through first article production. Designed concepts combining lead screws, servo motors and cams, to achieve complex combinations for rapid tilting and lifting of an X-Ray assembly within the enclosure. Result: First unit operational in 6 1/2 months. Automated Disk Media Production: Engineered a unique automated machine for high volume coating of memory disk media with Disks being robotically moved through the entire deposition process. The system was capable of processing Disks at a rate of 200 disks/hour. PCB Procurement: Retained by a major U.K. company to locate a U.S.A. manufacturer for production of PCB Assemblies to be valued at $2,000,000.00. Also undertook the responsibility as the U.S.A. quality control source for production and statistical analysis. Robotic Disk Handling: Disk media Burnishing and Certification equipment: Conducted market survey of disk manufacturers to validate opportunity. Developed specifications, evaluated existing U.S.A. robotic systems integrators. Created business plan to establish robotics division. Designed the robotic machines after determining that other existing manufacturers systems were too costly. Disk Drive Testing: Designed automated environmental test system capable of handling multiple different drive configurations to process up to 20,000 units/day. PCB Spray Coating: Designed Automated PCB Spray Coating. Result: A leading Spray System capable of processing 100 Circuit Boards per hour. Medical Products: Developed a Punctum Plug with companion human insertion device. Punctum Plugs are minute plugs to block tear passages at corners of human eyes. Task included: Engineering, Research, Tooling and Business Planning. Consumer Products: Designed unique device to permit 'Windex' type bottles to be used upside down. Engineered concept for production in millions of units. Developed business plans, cash flows and strategy to establish business entity. Evaluated patents for unique Child Safety Fence to be made in transparent plastic material. Task resulted in additional patents being granted to client. 1991 Internet Established InterActive Visions, Inc. in 1991. Business was formed to develop web sites primarily for manufacturers of technical products. Since formation, over 100 web sites have been created including complex Investor Relations segments of sites for major companies including: Dell, Gateway, Lucent, Infoseek, Komag, Excite, CMGI, Novell and others. 1997 GMail In 1997 Milo developed GMail, an online group communication product. The trademark and operations were sold to Google in 2004. 2003 Floor Tile Products Invented and patented a new design for 'Flexible Interlocking Floor Tiles' and founded Floor Surfaces, Inc. in 2003 as a California Corporation for manufacturing and sales of tile products 2004. The tiles are Trademarked as ResiliaTM and are injection molded. Floor Surfaces currently sells its products in the U.S.A. and Canada. Since 2005 Milo continues to invent and develop new products including: Marble, Granite and Wood surfaced interlocking floor tiles. Full color mural surfaced interlocking floor tiles. 24" x 24" Peel & Stick unbreakable floor tiles. Targeted for introduction in late 2007.

Milo & his wife Jean now live in Santa Barbara, California. Tel: 805-275-4087 / 310-341-3445 (W)