Wildland fire cost and fire finance define this fire suppression cost expert witness’s more than 45 years of combined fire protection and finance experience. He has provided consultations and deposition testimony for numerous clients, with expertise in firefighting, wildland fire cost auditing, wildland fire cost share agreements, fire cost estimating, financial reporting, fire damages, fire prevention systems, fire resistance, forest fire matters, wildfire management, and wildland fire site management and coordination. His incident finance experience includes FEMA incident finance reimbursement, cost share analysis, cost analysis, motel technical specialist work, damage assessment, incident finance training, FEMA reimbursement training, and auditing of finance packages. He has developed criteria for incident finance committees, worked on incident finance and FEMA reimbursement committees, and addressed fiscal and reimbursement issues for FEMA disasters. He has also been deposed and testified as an expert witness in the area of fire finance. His fire finance background includes finance responsibilities on approximately 100 fires, fire and flood cost reviews and audits involving recovery exceeding approximately $200 million, and case management for more than 25 civil cost recovery fire cases. His fire service experience includes work as a firefighter, fire apparatus engineer, fire captain, battalion chief, division chief, and assistant chief, with duties involving wildland and structural fire suppression, agency representative assignments on interagency fires, cost apportionment, incident command, fire ground command, operations leadership, and command and general staff functions.