Construction Defect Forensics

Construction Defects Forensics

  • Worked as an electrician

  • Worked 26 years as a design consulting engineer for the construction industry:

    • Electrical contractors
    • General contractors
    • Sub-contractors
    • Standard of care
    • NEC, OSHA, MSHA, Cal/OSHA

  • Jobsite safe work practices

Electrocution Forensics

Electrocutions Forensics

  • Investigated electrocutions in the following states:

    • California
    • Colorado
    • Illinois
    • Kentucky
    • Montana
    • New Mexico
    • New York
    • North Dakota
    • Oklahoma
    • Texas
    • Wyoming
Power Systems Forensics

Power Systems Forensics

  • BSEE in power engineering (electric utility engineering)

  • Utility:

    • More than 25 different electric utility systems
    • IOUs, Municipalities, REAs (RUS)
  • Power line clearances

  • Power Quality

  • NESC, GO-95, GO-128
  • Industrial power systems
  • Mine power systems
  • Solar
  • Wind (Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, and Texas)
Fire & Wildland Fire Forensics

Wildland Fire & Fire Forensics

  • Determined the causes of fires and explosions for more than 20 years

  • Investigated wildland fires involving power lines in the following states:

    • California
    • Colorado
    • Nebraska
    • New Mexico
    • South Dakota
    • Texas
    • Wyoming
Equipment Failure Forensics

Equipment Failures Forensics

  • Boiler machinery
  • Equipment breakdown
  • Lightning
  • Artificially generated electricity
  • Transformers
  • Motors

  • Oil & Gas

Electrical Testimony Forensics

Electrical Testimony

  • Testified in deposition numerous times.

  • Testified in court numerous times including:

    • Construction defect
    • Electrocution
    • Lightning
    • Construction design engineer standard of care