Specializing in high-hazard industries, this workplace safety expert provides consulting and expert testimony in matters involving mining, tunneling, construction, blasting operations, and heavy commercial trucking. He has provided expert testimony in administrative hearings, depositions, state court proceedings, and grand jury matters involving Cal/OSHA citations, MSHA enforcement actions, wrongful death claims, and insurance fraud allegations. Case involvement has included trenching fatalities, blasting-related loss claims at surface coal mines, heavy equipment and air brake failures, and commercial trucking incidents on mine properties. He previously served 12 years as an Associate Safety Engineer with the California Division of Industrial Relations (Cal/OSHA), Mining and Tunneling Unit, conducting workplace inspections, accident investigations, issuing citations, administering licensing examinations, and testifying in administrative appeals, and also has 20 years of underground and surface mining experience, including Mine Manager responsibilities for operational oversight and safety compliance. Additional qualifications include more than 10 years working with explosives in mining and construction, fifteen years driving and maintaining Class 8 trucks transporting hazardous and general freight, factory training as an air brake specialist, an MSHA mine safety instructor certificate for surface and underground mining, and leadership roles within the International Society of Explosives Engineers and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and is a Master of Science candidate in Geology.