For more than 30 years, this licensed Professional Engineer has assessed structural distress, material deterioration, and construction deficiencies to determine causation, evaluate standard of care, and define appropriate remedial measures. This civil engineering expert witness has extensive experience in civil infrastructure, construction materials, structural evaluation, and forensic failure analysis, and provides litigation support that includes consultations, depositions, courtroom testimony, arbitration, and mediation. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Illinois, Indiana, and Florida. Casework has involved construction defects, building code compliance, energy efficiency disputes, pavement and slab deficiencies, bridge and post-tensioning issues, roofing failures, quality control concerns, material performance disputes, and structural damage assessments in commercial and residential projects, and he has served as an expert in more than twenty litigation matters with court testimony and participation in arbitration and mediation proceedings.

His professional experience includes service as Principal-in-Charge of a specialty engineering firm and laboratory, Director of Technical and Application Services for a global engineering company, and founder of a consulting practice focused on forensic structural and materials evaluation. His technical expertise includes building envelope and roofing systems, balconies, parking structures, pavements, runways, and comprehensive foundation-to-roof structural evaluations utilizing advanced nondestructive testing methods such as impulse radar, impact echo, ultrasonic pulse velocity, ultrasonic tomography, petrographic examination, chemical analysis, alkali-silica reaction assessment, reinforcing bar placement verification, and corrosion investigation of concrete, steel, aluminum, anchor bolts, and asphalt materials. He evaluates cracking, displacement, vibration, fire damage, environmental deterioration, and partial or total collapse to determine causation, assess repair scope, and quantify damages. Professional affiliations and technical involvement include work consistent with U.S. and European building code standards and industry practices related to construction materials testing, nondestructive evaluation, corrosion assessment, and quality control frameworks.