Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. has announced that Arthur C Reardon Ph.D. has been named to the newly-created position of Chief Technology Officer effective 31 August 2010. The new position was created to strengthen the company’s technical support to customers as well as to provide the metallurgical expertise critical for its process improvement effort and product expansion strategy. As CTO, Dr Reardon will lead metallurgical process development at Universal Stainless and will oversee all company laboratory capability testing and analysis. He most recently served as Director of Technology R&D for Newell-Rubbermaid Corp., where he established fundamental research efforts and developed technologies to bring new products to market in the cutting and hand tool industry. From 1995 to 2006, Dr Reardon was Senior Process Metallurgist for Crucible Specialty Metals Corp., where he designed, maintained and improved manufacturing processes for high speed and tool steel grades and worked directly with customers to resolve complex technical issues. During that time, he also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, where he taught Materials, Properties and Processing in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently writing the second edition of a textbook on metallurgy for ASM International.