Maritime and shipbuilding expert witness services are supported by this expert’s more than 50 years of experience in the maritime field, with work focused on various facets of shipbuilding. His background includes shipbuilding repair and maintenance, project management, cost engineering, production control, marketing, market research, and research and development. He has provided services as a shipbuilding expert witness in Florida for more than 15 years and has given extensive deposition testimony in litigation involving integrated tug-barge vessel design, production, and quality control issues.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in business with a major in engineering and a master’s degree in business. His professional involvement includes the Southeastern Shipyard Association, American Waterways Shipyard Conference, Shipbuilders Council of America, American Waterways Conference, Navy League, and National Shipbuilding Research Project. His shipbuilding research and development work has included project selection for U.S. Navy shipbuilding, and he has received the Secretary of the Navy’s Meritorious Service Award for service to the Navy.

His shipbuilding experience includes submarine overhaul and long-life core installation, integrated tug-barge vessel construction, government contracting, engineering administration, contracting, estimating, proposal development, production control, and research and development programs. He has also participated in shipyard market studies, shipbuilding facilities analysis for East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf of Mexico clients, and management development consulting for an East Coast shipyard. His areas of expertise include boating repair, boats, cargo and shipping, cost engineering, machinery maintenance, marine maintenance, maritime matters, naval ships, ocean motor vessels, project management, repair, marketing research, and research and development.