Traffic engineer and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer serves as a traffic engineering expert witness with more than 30 years of experience involving roadway operations, traffic safety, and transportation system design. Professional work in this discipline includes the preparation and review of traffic and parking studies and evaluation of associated traffic mitigation requirements for development and infrastructure projects. For more than 5 years, this expert has provided traffic engineering expert witness services including consultation, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony related to roadway operations, traffic safety conditions, and transportation planning matters.

Core areas of traffic engineering practice include intersection operational and safety analysis, site feasibility review, and site access analysis for proposed developments. The expert’s work also involves identifying appropriate traffic mitigation measures, preparing technical variance and deviation requests, and developing traffic channelization and signing plans. Additional engineering activities include preparation of traffic signal designs, roadway illumination plans, traffic control and traffic calming plans, and intelligent transportation systems design used to support roadway performance and transportation safety objectives. Over the course of their career, this engineer has participated in more than 1,000 traffic engineering projects and prepared more than 500 traffic engineering reports evaluating traffic impacts and roadway operational conditions.

Leadership experience includes serving as the principal of a traffic engineering consulting practice responsible for managing traffic studies, preparing technical analyses, and representing transportation-related development projects at public hearings and regulatory meetings. Earlier professional experience includes work with public transportation agencies and a private traffic engineering consulting firm addressing roadway design, transportation operations, and traffic safety analysis. Professional credentials include licensure as a Professional Engineer in Washington and Oregon and certification as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer through the Transportation Professional Certification Board, Inc. The expert is recognized as a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and serves on the board of a regional transportation coalition. Educational preparation includes a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.