Expert No. 45968 – CA(S)
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Expertise Description: PE - Electrical engineer experienced in design, testing, performance analysis, and forensic engineering relating to construction defects, electrical fire cause and origin (residential, commercial, and industrial circumstances involving appliances, electronic panels, machinery, signage, wiring, gas, arson, etc.), electrocution, and failure analysis (electrical and electromechanical systems and equipment, industrial machinery, manufacturing systems and equipment, etc.).
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- 16+ years experience in depositions, testifying, mediation meetings, expert witness.
- Electric fire analysis, wiring, panel, and appliances.
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Electric fire analysis, wiring, panels, and appliances.
- Electric equipment damage, panels, conduits, failure analysis.
- Electric code compliance reviews.
- Electrocution, events, and sequence analysis.
Licenses & Certifications:
| California Professional Engineer (Quality Engineering) |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS | Electrical Engineering | George Washington University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations: Forensic Engineering:
- Evaluation of system or product conformance to design or performance requirements.
- Electrical Fires: Cause Analyses: residential, commercial, industrial; over 900 cases including suspected household appliances, wiring, neon signs, electrical panels and equipment.
- Failure and defect analyses in the investigations of losses involving electrical systems and equipment, industrial machinery, manufacturing systems and equipment; over 200 cases.
- Construction Defects Evaluation.
- Reconstruction of events leading to the catastrophic occurrence.
- Analysis of circumstances resulting in an electrocution or electrical injury.
- Design test programs for performance evaluation of conventional explosives and nuclear weapon
- subsystems.
- Instrumentation design, statistical modeling, test plan preparation, environmental simulations.
- Test operations, failure analysis, nuclear safety and performance effectiveness assessment.
- Telemetry data collection and analysis.
- Participation in at-sea weapon launch tests in attack submarines and surface ships.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- Forensic Expert Witness Association
- National Fire Protection Association
- International Association of Arson Investigators
- California Conference of Arson Investigators.
