This expert is a vocational rehabilitation professional with more than 35 years of experience providing analysis in matters involving employability, diminished earning capacity, and labor market access. His expertise includes transferable skills assessments, labor market analysis, earnings loss evaluations, return-to-work planning, job analysis, and vocational feasibility determinations in workers’ compensation, personal injury, family law, Social Security disability, employment discrimination, and long-term disability cases. He has been deemed qualified as a vocational/DFEC expert on over 3,500 occasions and has participated in thousands of vocational assessments within the workers’ compensation system. He has provided litigation consultation, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony for over 35 years as a vocational rehabilitation expert witness before trial courts and administrative boards.

His professional background includes founding and leading a vocational consulting practice and previously serving in a principal-level leadership role within a vocational consulting firm, where he exercised supervisory and decision-making authority over vocational evaluations and consulting services. He has conducted comprehensive vocational interviews, administered and interpreted psychometric and vocational testing, developed return-to-work plans, supervised vocational counselors, and performed case management services in complex disability matters. He holds a Master of Science degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and completed post-graduate coursework in Counseling Psychology. His primary professional designation is Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) through the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification. Additional credentials include Diplomate and Senior Disability Analyst through the American Board of Disability Analysts and licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Professional involvement includes active participation in national rehabilitation and vocational expert organizations, and he chaired a professional committee that authored methodology guidance addressing diminished future earning capacity analysis following appellate review in a workers’ compensation context. His work centers on objective, standards-based vocational analysis consistent with accepted rehabilitation and disability evaluation methodologies.