Vocational rehabilitation counseling and evaluation form the core of his work as a vocational rehabilitation expert witness with more than 5 years of experience in vocational rehabilitation counseling, vocational evaluations, job placement services, job and labor market analysis, employment laws, return-to-work strategies, marketing, operations management, and budgeting. He has prior experience providing consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony in vocational rehabilitation matters. His work includes people with disabilities, especially individuals with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and individuals who have acquired traumatic brain injury. He has held vocational expert, founder, vocational rehabilitation counselor, employment services director, branch manager, and senior leadership roles involving vocational assessment, employment placement, operations management, staff training, recruiting, budgeting, forecasting, profit and loss responsibility, planning, and workforce development. He earned a master’s degree in education with a focus in vocational rehabilitation counseling, completed forensic rehabilitation counseling education, and holds CRC, CVE, IPEC, and CAS credentials.

He has worked in job placement and case management with individuals with varying degrees of disability for state, federal, and private agencies. He has coordinated and implemented vocational training or retraining necessary to return claimants to the workplace, worked with employers and employment placement facilities on modifications to job duties based on medical limitations and functional assessments, and contacted employers to request job modifications, clarifications of duties, and reasonable accommodations for injured workers. His background also includes training local businesses on employment laws related to the ADA, Section 504, and risk management. His vocational rehabilitation experience includes creating vocational evaluations based on interviews, file reviews, medical reports, and psychometric testing. He has analyzed labor market information at the national, state, and local levels to determine employability and earning potential, and he has created transferable skills analyses and labor market surveys involving job experience, education, and labor market interaction. His work also includes vocational testing and evaluation, job analysis, job search activities, vocational assessment interviews, and counseling injured workers on vocational alternatives when limitations call for another type of work or retraining.