With more than 30 years of experience in Structural Engineering, this expert specializes in the design, evaluation, and forensic investigation of residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and public structures. His expertise includes wood-frame, steel, masonry, and concrete structures, as well as shoring and underpinning systems, retaining walls, seismic evaluation and rehabilitation, fire-damage repair projects, construction-related forensic investigations, code compliance, and structural failure analysis. He has more than 15 years of experience as a structural engineering forensic consultant with extensive knowledge of current and historical California Building Code (CBC), Uniform Building Code (UBC), and local building codes and ordinances. He has prior expert witness experience providing consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony.

His professional background includes leading a structural engineering consulting practice providing structural design, construction observation, engineering management, forensic investigations, peer review, and code compliance services. He has directed multidisciplinary design and construction teams on technically complex projects for government agencies, manufacturers, insurance companies, developers, contractors, engineering firms, and public entities. His experience also includes performing forensic investigations for owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors, and insurers; conducting structural plan checks and peer reviews; and providing engineering evaluations for commercial, industrial, public, educational, and residential facilities, as well as pedestrian bridges, retaining walls, deep tanks, vaults, and other specialized structures.

In addition, this expert has extensive experience with earthquake damage investigations, seismic rehabilitation, historical structure preservation, construction inspections, and building code compliance. He has led investigations involving significant structural failures, including earthquake- and landslide-related projects, and has performed structural reviews and inspections for municipalities and public agencies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structures and has held registrations as a Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer in California.