Consultant in Analysis of Chemical Process Safety, Explosion Hazards, Toxic Clouds, Fire Protection, Electrical Hazards, Risk AssessmentChemical Process Safety Analysis - qualitative and quantitative analysis: fault tree analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, HAZOP, "What if...?" and checklist methods; consequence analysis (all types of explosions and fires, and toxicity), acceptability criteria (F/N and FAFR); training.Explosion Hazards Analysis - explosives; bursting containers; BLEVE's; dust/air, vapor/air, and unconfined vapor cloud explosions; explosion venting; blast effects; barricade design and evaluation; inerting; suppressi...

Forensics Fire Investigator Expert:, Manufacturing Plants, Vehicles, Heavy Equipment, Commercial and Family BuildingsConducted thousands of fire investigations as a private fire cause and origin investigator working in the Legal, Insurance, and Safety industries.Providing loss reviews, fire investigations, technical expertise, and litigation support for numerous major insurance carriers and attorneys through the Midwest.Report writing, evidence collection, still and video photography, interviewing of witnesses, and deposition and expert witness appearances. Testified in both state and federal court.Fire and Explosion Origin and CauseSingl...

Structural Forensic expert Specializing in Building Performance and Failure InvestigationsStructural EngineeringBuilding, structure collapse and failure analysis: Natural hazard mitigation and response, dynamics, advanced analysis techniques, and instrumentation.Disaster, flood and leak mitigation and design.Preparation of codes and standards on wind and seismic loads; vibration and fatigue testing of major structures; cable design; blast analysis, design, analysis and inspection of existing facilities; and, dynamic and impact analysis.Independent certifier for major infrastructure demolition bid documents and proposals involving multipl...

Analysis regarding injuries due to slips, trips, falls, recovery, and age and balance related impairments that limit recovery. Compensatory mechanisms of balance recovery. Biomechanical and musculoskeletal impairments associated with aging.Mechanical and biomedical engineering.Analysis regarding injuries due to slips, trips, falls, recovery, and age related impairments that limit recovery.Compensatory mechanisms of balance recovery.Human balancing mechanism and relationship to slips, trips and falls.Biomechanical and musculoskeletal impairments associated with aging.Whole body biomechanics and impact related injury.Design and implementati...

Mathematical probability, particularly data sets with large deviations. Bayesian statistics theory and application. Legal applications of statistics and expert witness. Forensic science as related to statistical analysis of data and evidence. Statistics as evidence; assessments of statistics as evidence in the courts. Fingerprints and DNA as evidence; statistical issues in DNA identification.Mathematical probability, particularly data sets with large deviations.Bayesian statistics theory and application.Legal applications of statistics and service as an expert witness.Forensic science as related to statistical analysis of data and evidenc...

Domestic and International experience in the plastics Industry, working in product design, and development, manufacture of automotive, medical, toy and consumer products.Over thirty years of domestic and international experience in the plastics industry.Plastic product design, development and manufacture of medical devices, automotive parts, toys and consumer plastic products.Expert of plastics end use markets, and plastic (polymer) type commonly used for each application, with special knowledge in the medical device field.Plastic material selection criteria and plastic product design review.Shop floor knowledge of plastics processing, too...

Consultant and Expert Witness for Fires, Explosions, Equipment Failure and Hazardous WastesFires and explosions associated with combustion equipment.Explosion causation.Process equipment failure analysis.Air pollution control equipment design, specification and operation.Hazard analysis for fume collection systems and air ducts.Heat transfer in process equipment and boilers.Mechanical equipment control design and troubleshooting.Expert witness.Insurance investigations, root cause and and probable cause failure analysis.Equipment Failure AnalysisProvi...

Construction Industry Standard of Care, Construction Defect, Safety Engineering, and Workplace Injury ExpertLicensed engineering contractor and general contractor with more than 35 years' experience in the design, engineering, and onsite development of commercial, industrial, petro-chemical, educational, residential and theme park environments.Internationally licensed building inspector, knowledgeable in building code, project safety applications and interpretations per the UBC (Uniform Building Codes).Skilled with tradesperson, apprentice, journeyman, foreman, superintendent, project manager, construction manager in development and constr...

Slurry Expert - Design and Engineering of Plants, Tailings, Pipelines, mining equipment for metals (platinum, gold, nickel)Pipeline engineering.Design of gas fired cokeless furnaces for melting iron, including burner management system.Combustion aerodynamics.International slurry systems engineering expert: Design long distance slurry pipelines, slurry tailing, slurry handling-two phase and three phase flows.Mud drilling rheology and slurry transport of cuttings and cavings.Corrosion for refineries and mining extractionEngineering and design of long distance water, reclaim water and slurry pipelines for dredging, tailings disposal or miner...

Failure Analysis Expert for Medical Devices, Specializing in Surgical Fires, Oxygen Safety, Surgical LasersOver 30 years investigating expertise of failures, malfunctions, and misuses of devices, systems, methods, and procedures in various industries.Evaluating and investigating healthcare technology. providing over 20 years' experience.Surgical fires, oxygen safety, surgical lasers, failure analysis, root cause analyses (RCA), and failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA).Quickly and accurately determine problem causation for hospitals, law firms, insurance companies, regulatory agencies, and manufacturers.Educator - Instructor, Physics.Ex...