Admiralty and Maritime Law Expert Witness and Consultant (563)

Expertise

  • Master Mariner (U.S.) and Chartered Engineer (Naval Architecture).
  • Expert in admiralty litigation support and expert testimony.
  • Expert consultant in admiralty and maritime law, engineering and finance.
  • Expert in maritime operations, maritime architecture, naval engineering and maritime business.
  • Fluency in English and reading ability in Latin, French, Russian, German and Japanese.

Experience

Consulting, Engineering, and Executive Experience:

Business Founder and Independent Consultant, 1981 - Present

  • Providing litigation support and expert testimony in a broad range of admiralty, maritime and naval matters, including marine construction and off-shore industrial activities.

Business Founder, Chairman CEO, 1981 - 1992

  • A company offering a broad-range naval architectural, intermodal transportation equipment designs, marine engineering and intermodal transportation consulting (Marine Engineering Division).
  • Marine environmental engineering and consulting (Environmental Division).
  • Marine computer applications and marine economic consulting (Management Division).
  • Intermodal equipment manufacturing, (Manufacturing and Shipbuilding Division), and marine and environmental project and program management, (Operations Division) to commercial and government clients.
  • At sale of company in 1992, company had approximately 300 employees in five operating divisions with operations in worldwide sites.

International Maritime Associates, Vice President, 1981

  • Marine operations and economic consulting to commercial and government clients, with a functioning staff and associates of 20.

Marine Transportation Consulting, V.P., & Director, Grumman Data Systems, Inc., 1980 - 1981

  • Computer and automated systems and simulation systems to steamship companies, shipyards, freight forwarders and government agencies. Span of control 40 persons at three sites.

Consulting Firm, President and Chairman, 1978 - 1980

  • Engineering and consulting services in vessel operations, supervisory naval architecture, marine project management and operations analysis.

Industrial and Military Experience

Cadet, Third Officer, Second Officer, Chief Officer Or Master, 1969 - 1983

  • Various vessels of U.S. Merchant Marine including, dry cargo and heavy lift; product and crude oil tank; container; barge carrier, and various dredging and specialty vessels, traveling 2,600 days at sea.
  • Service in routes to all continents from North America including Antarctica.
  • Numerous shipyards visits, layups, breakouts and other marine operations.

United States Navel Reserve, Midshipman to Lieutenant, 1965 - 1973

  • Naval reserve activities, affiliated with Naval Control of Shipping Organization, and trained in Naval Control of Shipping and as Convoy Commodore; Honorable discharge.

Honors & Publications

  • Master Mariner (U.S.) and Chartered Engineer (Naval Architecture).
  • Member, American Statistical Association
  • Member, American Council of Master Mariners
  • Member, American Society of Naval Engineers
  • Southeast Asia Merchant Marine Service Ribbon

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Georgia, Disseration, Measurement Theory, Efficient Quantitative Methods, Non-Linear-N-Space Methods of Correlation
  • MBA, Georgia State University
  • M S, University of Georgia, Quantitative Methods, Measurement Theory, Mathematics
  • B.S., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Marine Transportation Systems, Naval Architecture, Vessel Operations