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Forensic-Expert Witness Experience
I have assisted plaintiffs and defendants in County, State and Federal courts and have been retained in over 80 cases.
Representative case areas include:
- Cumulative trauma injuries to upper and lower body
- Whole Body Vibration: Ergonomics and health issues
- Human Factors-Ergonomics investigations of incidents leading to injuries, fatalities and property damage
- Ergonomics-Human Factors evaluations of work environments, activities
- Occupational Safety and Health
- Slips, trips and fall injuries
- Pedestrian visibility
My involvement in these cases has included attorney advisement, site visits and investigations, development of simulations,
review of scientific literature, generation of expert opinion reports, appearance in depositions, hearings and trials. I have
worked in the transportation-rail environment, in maritime cases, in pedestrian slip-trip fall and visibility cases, in cases
involving mechanical and electrial worker injuries and school buss drivers and workers.
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Qualifications
Certified Professional
Ergonomist (CPE)
Professional Engineer (PE)
Qualified in Federal Court as
Expert in Ergonomics
PhD, Industrial Engineering-
Ergonomics
MA, Experimental Psychology
BS, Electrical Engineering
Experience as Ergonomics Consultant
As an Ergonomics-Human Factors Engineering Consultant, my focus has been ergonomics, macroergonomics and productivity
enhancement in a variety of working environments. Typical activities include hazard analyses and countermeasure development,
workstation evaluations, quality and work flow evaluations using Lean and other industrial engineering methods, training
for floor level, supervisory, managerial and technical personnel in ergonomics and the evaluation and
design of ergonomics programs. .
I have worked in industries from agriculture to ultra-high technology clean rooms, in service sector, medical and heavy
industry, the chemical and oil industries and in assisted living and sheltered workshop environments. I do basic safety and
health consulting as well as doing Process Safety Management consulting and safety system evaluations-VPP type studies. I
have worked with companies with one employee and up to 5000, with foreign (to the US) managers and owners and engineers.
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