David Fister

Sr. Staff Engineer

David Fister is a senior staff engineer on the Structural and Material Analysis Team at NYSP2I. Mr. Fister gained 17 years' manufacturing experience in light industry before he joined NYSP2I. He worked for four years in Manufacturing Technology at Eastman Kodak and 13 years at Bausch & Lomb in various areas of manufacturing and research. During his tenure in industry, Mr. Fister developed strong technical skills, including in-depth knowledge of failure analysis, friction and wear, plating and finishing, joining technologies, fixture and gage design, and metal injection molding.

Mr. Fister holds a BS in biology from Cornell University and an MS in materials science from Vanderbilt University.