Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Paradiso worked for an engineering firm designing and analyzing structures and equipment used in the performance industry. He later moved into consumer product design designing strollers and retrofitting prior designs to meet stricter CPSC standards. His last role before joining Exponent was as a vehicle dynamicist and performance and simulation engineer supporting a team in the INDYCAR series. In this role he was responsible for creating multibody vehicle models, running vehicle lap time simulations, performing component lap time impact studies, and real time data analysis. He also wrote a Static and Steady-State Vehicle Analysis program to facilitate quicker setup changes during events.

Mr. Paradiso’s Master’s research was in the area of vehicle modeling and simulation. He performed testing to determine the minimal number of degrees of freedom the specific vehicle being evaluated needed to accurately describe vehicle ride comfort as described by ISO 2631. Mr. Paradiso then built a nonlinear ride quality model, as well as a random road profile generator in order to feed inputs into the system.