Expert No. 45703 – Engineering Expert – AZ / CA(N) / CA(S) / CO / NV / NM / OR / TX / UT / WA
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Expertise Description: Registered Geotechnical Engineer with over 33 years of extensive experience and practice. Soil and foundation engineering studies; field exploration and soil testing; forensic studies relating to ground subsidence, foundation distress, slope instability, expansive soils, fill compaction, groundwater seepage and seismic ground failure; analyses and recommendations for foundation repair and site stabilization; consultation assistance during construction repairs; and preparation of geotechnical engineering reports.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Counsel representing insurance company for victims of catastrophic failure of hydraulic earth-fill dam
- Plaintiff attorney representing railroad employee injured in construction excavation slope failure
- Defense attorney representing V-ditch subcontractor on major hillside residential development
- Defense attorney representing plumbing subcontractor on major warehouse facility
- Legal dispute resolutions and insurance claim assessments
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
Services
Services
- Compilation and review of historical data, correspondence, drawings, consultants reports and photographs, deposition transcripts and exhibits, and data analysis
- Reviewed case files, design drawings, observed and documented site conditions. Assessed aligned construction defect claims for damages to hillside drainage facilities and slopes, and reviewed proposed solutions
- Perform investigation of distress to structural foundations, and earth embankments, including damages caused by expansive soil, settlement, slope instability, groundwater seepage, soil liquefaction, erosion, design deficiencies, defective construction, and earthquakes.
- Review and determine causes for damages or failures.
- pile foundation design for a subsurface bridge
- widening of access roadways
- single-span roadway bridge over a river
- stability analyses performed to evaluate proposed river embankment slope designs, provide adequate factors-of-safety for slopes under normal river flow
Licenses & Certifications:
| Registered Geotechnical Engineer, California |
| Registered Civil Engineer, California |
| Registered Civil Engineer, Nevada |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| M. Engr. | Geotechnical Engineering | University of California, Berkeley | |
| B.S. | Civil Engineering | California State Polytechnic University, Pomonoa | |
| A.A. | Engineering Technology | Merritt Jr. College, California |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Member, Geo-Institute of ASCE
- Member, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
- Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
