Expert No. 34378 – MD
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Expertise Description: P.E. - Experienced Naval Architect and Marine Engineer with almost thirty years of experience in the industry. Expertise includes: small crafts, fishing vessels, recreational boats, yachts, ferries, shipyard productivity and claims, and offshore oil exploration. Additional areas of expertise include: recreational boat accidents including outboard motor steering failures, PWC accidents, outboard motor support failures, off-throttle steering, boat collisions and allisions, falls aboard and overboard, high speed craft, primary and secondary structural failures, propellers, stability standards, and federal and industry boating safety standards compliance.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Watercraft fatality and injury.
- Report on requirements for strong point.
- Hazard analyses standards.
- Human factors relating to accident.
- Feasibility of alternative steering/braking means.
- Off-throttle loss of steering.
- Structural defects of crane installations.
- Root cause of defects for yacht gel coat.
- History of water jet propelled craft.
- Report on accident path reconstruction.
- Report on means existed prior to accident to prevent loss of steering.
- Patent infringement of high-speed craft hull design.
- Feasibility and practicality for technical solutions to low emissions ferry.
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Assistance in development of wave energy devices.
- Advice in development of coastwise (Jones Act) shipping line.
- Assistance in development of proposal for federal government engineering support service contract.
- Advice in restoration of historic ships.
- Due diligence review of Canadian small passenger vehicle design.
- Review of structure of marine shielding device.
- Assistance in stability review of specialized barge transport.
- Advice on small craft production process improvements.
- Technical advice on marine/shipping oriented investments.
Licenses & Certifications:
| California Professional Mechanical Engineer |
| Washington Professional Engineer, Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering |
| Marine Standards Technician, American Boat and Yacht Club |
| Ship Corrosion Assessment Training Technician, National Association of Corrosion Engineers |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS | Mechanical Engineering/Naval Architecture | University of California, Berkeley |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
- American Boat and Yacht Council
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- National Association for Corrosion Engineering
Awards & Honors:
| Hann Award, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers |
| Holder of 2 U.S. patents in high speed craft design. |
Other Career Highlights:
| Numerous technical and research papers, trade and consumer publications, and presentations. |
| Instructor for course on propeller selection and matching for boat builders. |
