Curriculum Vitae / Professional Resume

Gary J. Maylon, Metal Lath & Stucco Consulting Co., Inc.

Mr. Maylon has been involved with the stucco industry for over thirty-eight years and has been involved in technical services and support for more than twenty-two years.

During his career he has worked for two of the largest manufacturers of expanded metal lath and light gage steel framing in North America. I am the author of “The Metal Lath Handbook.” This book was published in 2002 and has met with much success and excellent reviews from the lathing and plastering community.

Mr. Maylon has been president and CEO of Metal Lath and Stucco Consulting Co., Inc. since his retirement in 2004.

Accomplishments and Associations:

1. Past chairman of the Metal Lath Division of the Metal Lath/Steel Framing Association and currently technically advising and writing technical literature for the new formed Expanded Metal Lath Association.
2. Past chairman of the Technical Executive Committee of Association of Walls and Ceilings International (AWCI); the largest contractor association for stucco contractors in the U.S. and Canada.
3. Past chairman of the Steel Framing Technical Committee of AWCI, and a former director on the board-of-directors of AWCI.
4. Past Board Member of the Foundation of the Walls and Ceiling Industry, the educational arm of AWCI.
5. A long time member of The Construction Specifications Institute.
6. Chairman of the C 1063 task group and a voting member of committee C-11 of The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) since 1988 (voting member and chairman of C1063 since 1990. I received an appreciation plaque for my long years of service and dedication to ASTM C11. The overall committee of C11 deals with all elements of the stucco wall including gypsum plaster and board, portland cement stucco, metal lath and all of its various components. This committee deals with products, installation methods and testing. These specifications and standards are listed in every model building code currently in use in the United States.
7. He has been a consulting member of committee 524 on stucco of The American Concrete Association and one of the authors of the Committee 524 ACI Stucco Manual.
8. He is a consulting member of the Florida Cement and Products Association. This is an association of portland cement and stucco manufacturers.
9. He currently holds seven industry related patents for vinyl stucco products, a metal lath and stucco security lathing system and a security related product. In my thirty-five plus years in the stucco industry I have developed or improved many of the products used by the industry every day.
10. Among his achievements he has published more than a dozen technical articles in various trade publications. In 1996 Construction Dimensions Magazine (published by AWCI) published the article entitled “Expanded Metal Lath Installation for the Application of Portland Cement Stucco, The Eight Deadly Sins.” This was a two-part article, which was well received by the stucco industry. The Association of Walls and Ceiling Industries International subsequently republished these articles as a single stand alone document for industry distribution. It is still available for sale and wide distributed today, nearly thirteen years later.
11. He taught the metal lath installation and stucco installation training class in the developmental stages of STO Corp’s development of a one-coat stucco system and helped edit and write their specifications.
12. He taught a lath and stucco education program to companies like Synergy, a one coat stucco manufacturer, AMICO, and Dietrich Steel Framing, manufacturers of metal lath. I also taught a course on stucco and lath inspection to the Home Inspection Association in Atlanta three years ago. Also to numerous responsible lath and stucco contractors wishing to have trained crews that know the proper installation techniques to meet today’s code requirements.
13. He was invited by the licensing department in the counties encompassing Kansas City to provide continuing education on metal lath and stucco in a four hour presentation for three straight years. I have given innumerable educational presentations to municipal and county building inspectors across the county, including Orange County, FL., St. Johns and Jacksonville, FL, Orlando, FL, New Castle County, DE, Kansas City and Johnson County, KS, and others.
14. His book is the first book published in nearly forty years that covers in detail the code requirements and techniques of metal lath installation to achieve a successful code driven stucco application. If the lath fails the stucco has to fail.
15. Forensic Inspections: technically, he has been involved in innumerable forensic investigations of lath and stucco jobs across the United States starting in the mid 1980’s. he has developed techniques for testing via destructive removal of stucco, complete and extensive evaluation and documentation, and testing techniques such as water uptake testing.

Finally, he has testified in trial, depositions, arbitrations and negotiated settlements in numerous cases involving stucco related failures over the last twenty-five years. Below is his work history resume’.

Resume

Education:

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Marketing 1972, University of Southeastern Louisiana, Hammond, La. (Currently named the University of Louisiana, Hammond.)

Training program, Wheeling Corrugating Co., Division of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel; Wheeling, WV. 1973. This was an intensive six month long classroom and mill training program on all construction and industrial steel products manufactured by Wheeling Corrugating and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel. This included extensive training in metal lath and light gage steel framing. This program included a strong education in basic steel making, hot dipped galvanizing and metallurgy as well as manufacturing, construction and troubleshooting techniques for such products as metal roof deck, light gauge steel framing, metal lath, security mesh, expanded metal, and bar grating. This training included job site visits to actually witness product installations.

Continuing education lectures and programs:

Through the last thirty plus years he has attended, helped teach and participated in numerous education seminars and training demonstrations on the subject of metal lath and stucco installation with such groups as the Association of Walls and Ceilings International, the Construction Specifications Institute, the STO Corporation, Synergy Corporation, Moisture Warrantee Corporation, the American Concrete Institute, and the Portland Cement Association, window installation presentations, flashing and weather barrier presentations by Fortifiber and Tyvec by Dupont, water infiltration presentations (most recently by the renown author and Doctor; Dr. Joseph Lstiburek.

Work History:

1972-1976 Wheeling Corrugating Company, technical sales staff.

1976-2004 Alabama Metal Industries Corporation, technical sales from 1976 to 1983. Product Manager and technical services manager for the Construction Products Division, 1983-1989 and Corporate Manager of Technical Services and New Product Development and Loss Prevention from 1989 till my retirement in 2004. As the company’s product loss representative he handled all legal matters and litigation issues till my retirement.

2004-present, President of Metal Lath and Stucco Consulting Co. Inc., Trussville, AL. Professional stucco consulting services including forensic evaluation of metal lath and stucco installations. Education services and project document reviews including contracts, specifications, and plans and details pertaining to metal lath and stucco. He also does onsite inspections of lath and stucco installations for a select group of contractors that he has personally provided education services pertaining to the current code requirements for these types of installations.

Depositions

Depositions taken during the last ten years for Gary J. Maylon, Metal Lath and Stucco Consulting, Inc.

United States Gypsum Company,
Plaintiff, vs. Pacific Award Metals, Inc.,
Defendant.

Michael P. Padden
Thomas W. Jenkins
HOWREY LLP
321 North Clark Street
Chicago , Illinois 60610-4714
Telephone: (312) 595-1239
Deposition: 2006

Brown & Nachman, LLC
Crown Center Square
Attn: David R. Nachman
2405 Grand, Suite 300
Kansas City , MO 64108
Ayers, et al. v. Price Residential, Inc., et. Al.
Deposition: 2006

Cabaniss, Johnston , Gardner , Dumas, & O'neal, LLP
Jarrod J. White
63 South Royal St.
Mobile , Al 36602
Trustmark South of Alabama, Inc, et al. v William Sealy, et al.
Baldwin County Circuit Court
Deposition: 2006

Moye, O'Brien, O'Rourke, Pickert & Martin, LLP
Attn: Stephen W. Pickert
800 South Orlando Avenue
Maitland , FL 32751
Deposition: Bermuda Island Apartments
Deposition: Oakmonte Apartments

Broad and Cassel
Robert D. Gatton, P.A.
390 North Orange Avenue, Suite 1100
Orlando , FL 32801
Jefferson Summit , L.P.
Reference: Report of Findings Regarding Metal Lath and Plaster Installation at the Jefferson Summit Apartments

Arbitration
Adorno & Yoss
Attn: Jason Gunther
West Palm Beach , FL
Sanctuary Bay , Professional Plastering et.al. V. Alabama Metal Industries Corp.