An environmental engineering expert witness with more than 25 years of experience, this expert provides analysis involving hazardous waste operations, environmental risk management, groundwater and surface water quality, air pollution regulation, environmental compliance, and remediation of contaminated properties. The expert has more than 25 years of experience providing consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony in matters involving chlorinated solvent releases, hazardous waste management, dry cleaner contamination, regulatory compliance, remediation standards, long-term environmental liability, and cost-to-cure analysis. Technical expertise includes OSHA hazardous waste operations and emergency response procedures, Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments, underground storage tank investigations, remediation oversight, environmental due diligence, human health risk assessment, benefit-cost analysis, and brownfields redevelopment planning associated with environmentally impaired properties and redevelopment projects.

Extensive leadership and governance responsibilities have included service as Southwest Environmental Services Director and board or committee participation with numerous environmental, redevelopment, and regulatory organizations. The expert previously served as a board member for the Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region, and held committee and leadership positions with ASTM Committee E50 on Environmental Site Assessment, the National Brownfields Association California Chapter Executive Committee, the National Academy of Science Transportation Research Board, the Maritime Alliance Board of Directors, and the Association of Hazardous Materials Professionals San Diego Chapter, where the expert served as Founding President and Board Member. Additional professional involvement has included environmental redevelopment committees, hazardous materials management advisory boards, and water quality and brownfields policy initiatives.

Comprehensive environmental and forensic project experience includes management and oversight of more than 1,000 environmental site assessments and over 100 site closures involving groundwater contamination, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, asbestos, pesticide contamination, methane migration, heavy metals, and underground storage tank releases. The expert has directed remediation and environmental assessment programs for redevelopment projects, transportation infrastructure, mixed-use developments, ports, hotels, industrial facilities, airports, and municipal properties throughout California and other western states. Additional responsibilities have included development of guaranteed fixed-price remediation programs, environmental insurance evaluations, long-term liability buyout strategies, regulatory negotiations, environmental remediation planning for institutional and commercial real estate portfolios, and environmental risk management strategies for environmentally impaired assets.

Broad regulatory and instructional experience has included work with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United Nations Environmental Program, regional air quality authorities, and state water quality agencies. Responsibilities included development of national environmental indicators related to groundwater and surface water quality, environmental information systems analysis, air pollution regulatory evaluation, and participation in regulatory workshops and hearings involving transportation and air quality controls. The expert has also taught environmental site assessment, hazardous materials management, remediation practices, environmental liability, and regulatory compliance courses for more than 30 years through professional certificate and extension education programs. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Professional training includes 40-Hour OSHA HAZWOPER certification with annual updates.