A forensic engineer specializing in accident reconstruction and mechanical systems analysis, this expert has 15 years of professional experience investigating mechanical failures and transportation-related incidents. The expert has more than 5 years of expert witness experience providing litigation support through consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony in matters involving product liability, insurance claims, intellectual property disputes, and industrial incidents. The expert’s work includes technical investigations of accidents and mechanical failures associated with vehicles, industrial equipment, and consumer products.

Core areas of expertise include accident reconstruction and forensic engineering analysis of highway collisions, industrial incidents, and machinery-related events involving automobiles, tractor-trailers, buses, motorcycles, construction equipment, agricultural machinery, forklifts, and pedestrians. Technical evaluations address accident causation, vehicle dynamics, speed-time-distance analysis, occupant kinematics, visibility and conspicuity factors, cargo securement, and electronic crash data retrieval and interpretation. Additional work includes mechanical systems failure analysis across transportation systems, heavy industrial machinery, agricultural equipment, exercise equipment, medical devices, and consumer products, as well as analysis of HVAC and plumbing systems such as boilers, chillers, cooling towers, piping systems, valves, and meters. The expert also performs intellectual property analysis involving patent review, product evaluation within the scope of patent claims, patent drafting support, and prior-art research. The expert holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in multiple jurisdictions and a United States Patent Agent, with professional affiliations including ASME, SAE, ASM International, ASTM, ANSI, NAPARS, ASHRAE, NFPA, and NSPE.