This correctional operations expert holds a Master of Public Administration and has more than 45 years of experience in jail and prison administration, institutional security, and correctional management. He served 30 years within a large municipal detention system, advancing from Correctional Officer to Division Chief with responsibility for six facilities. His leadership roles included Warden of maximum-, medium-, and minimum-security facilities housing male and female inmates; Commanding Officer of a Security Division overseeing perimeter and institutional security; Commanding Officer of an Emergency Response Unit; and Commanding Officer of a correction academy responsible for recruit and in-service training. He also played a key role in the development of use-of-force policies and implementation of environmental health standards.

His expertise includes conditions of confinement, inmate classification, suicide prevention, search procedures, use-of-force review, segregation housing, admission and discharge procedures, staffing and overtime controls, and deliberate indifference considerations. He has managed facilities operating under federal court oversight and served in a lead compliance role in class action litigation involving correctional conditions. A Department of Justice–certified Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) auditor, he evaluates institutional compliance with federal standards. He has provided expert witness services for more than 20 years, including consultation, deposition testimony, and trial testimony in matters involving wrongful death, use of force, inmate assaults, classification decisions, double-celling, segregation housing, discharge procedures, staff training, and jail management practices.