With more than 40 years of experience in forensic security, this security expert witness specializes in negligent security, premises liability, security surveys, risk assessment, risk analysis, protective intelligence, and security planning. More than 15 years of expert witness experience includes consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. Areas of expertise encompass apartment and condominium complexes, buildings, parking lots and garages, hotels, bars, banks, office properties, shopping malls, cruise liners, security guard operations, and crowd-control conditions.

Earlier federal service involved criminal investigations, protective intelligence, building security surveys, and advance security planning for senior government officials, foreign heads of state, political candidates, and other protected individuals. Responsibilities included investigating counterfeiting, forgery, credit card fraud, and background matters; coordinating criminal investigations; presenting matters to grand juries; gathering and analyzing intelligence concerning actual and potential threats; supervising investigative and protective-intelligence functions; and maintaining liaison with domestic and international law-enforcement agencies. Educational attainment includes a Bachelor of Science in Criminology, supplemented by federal law-enforcement, special-agent, technical-operations, and protection training.

Professional leadership includes service as president of a security consulting practice providing security surveys, risk assessments, risk analyses, event planning, premises-liability consulting, litigation support, and investigations involving witness location and interviews. Professional affiliations include the American Society for Industrial Security, International Association of Professional Security Consultants, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and Association of Former Agents of the United States Secret Service. This combination of protective-service experience, investigative work, security assessment, and expert testimony supports evaluation of alleged security deficiencies, security procedures, protective measures, risk conditions, and premises-security practices in disputed matters.