Across more than 40 years in the construction industry, this construction safety expert has specialized in occupational safety, construction risk management, OSHA compliance, and standards of care. His expertise encompasses new construction, demolition, renovation, steel erection, precast erection, and high-rise construction projects, with extensive experience evaluating workplace safety practices, fall protection systems, construction accidents, and personal injury claims. He has provided expert witness services for consultations, depositions, arbitration, and courtroom testimony involving wrongful death, negligence, construction defects, and occupational safety matters.

His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with Honors. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) with a specialty in Construction Safety, and a Certified Forensic Litigation Consultant (CFLC). Throughout his career, he has supplemented these credentials with advanced training in expert witness practice, arbitration, construction safety, and occupational health and safety management systems. He has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and as a construction safety consultant for complex disputes involving contractors, owners, insurers, and legal counsel.

His career has progressed through executive leadership positions including president, senior vice president, vice president, project manager, and consultant, providing oversight of more than 350 construction projects across 21 U.S. states and territories. His responsibilities have included estimating, scheduling, project management, quality assurance, troubleshooting, contract administration, and, for more than 20 years, leadership of occupational health and safety management systems and construction safety and risk management programs. He has observed and evaluated the safety policies, procedures, standard practices, and best practices of more than 200 owners, more than 80 general contractors, numerous specialty contractors, and suppliers across projects involving airports, bridges, hospitals, refineries, power plants, schools, manufacturing facilities, commercial buildings, sports arenas, warehouses, and other complex structures.

In addition to his consulting practice, he has made significant contributions to the construction safety profession through teaching, technical presentations, committee leadership, and industry service. He has instructed construction safety and risk management topics for professional organizations, OSHA Training Institute Education Centers, and industry conferences while serving on committees dedicated to occupational safety, steel erection safety, and construction best practices, including long-standing participation on the ANSI A10.13 Steel Erection Safety Committee. His extensive field experience includes evaluation of fall protection systems, personal protective equipment, crane and hoisting operations, occupational health and safety management systems, accident investigations, OSHA compliance, and construction safety programs. He has also participated in numerous OSHA inspections, testified before OSHA negotiated rulemaking committees on steel erection and crane safety, and contributed to OSHA partnership initiatives, providing comprehensive expertise in construction safety standards and accepted industry practices.