Background Check Expert Witnesses in Iowa

This expert focuses on accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuation and investigations. He has experience in lost profits/earnings, business interruption claims, analysis of financial transactions and balances, Court-ordered accounting, bankruptcy, fraud examinations, investigations and the reconstruction of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified financial information. This expert provides consulting and litigation support services to trial lawyers, trustees, examiners, receivers, business owners and managers and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine financial analysis, economic damages determination, valuation issues, tracing procedures and/or other applications of financial forensics to assist in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes. He has more than 35 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations in diverse engagements and numerous industries, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. He has participated in public hearings and alternative dispute resolutions, submitted expert reports in several jurisdictions and testified in arbitration, regulatory proceedings and State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts.

This expert consults on all aspects of human factors, applied human performance, ergonomics, and safety. Areas of particular expertise include: human-machine interface design and evaluation, human capabilities and limitations in applied environments, instructions and warning, perception/vision/visibility, the evaluation of equipment and structures from a human use standpoint, and safety-related issues in general. He is recognized as an expert in operator-vehicle interaction, and is a Certified Human Factors Professional. He has published more than 50 technical papers dealing with various issues relating to applied human performance and accident investigation.

This expert brings 40+ years of electrical engineering experience to a continuing career in failure analysis and electrical fire investigations. In addition to his professional work for several industrial firms, he has taught these subjects at the Illinois Fire Academy., Wisconsin IAAI.

This expert has a decade of experience in the field of correctional internal investigations. He earned his BS in criminal justice administration from Northeastern State University and is a certified firearms instructor. He previously served as a deputy sheriff at the Adair County Sheriff Department, as an armed patrol agent for Command Security Services and as a lead corrections officer for the Jackson County Department of Corrections. He is currently a correctional officer academy instructor, a supervisor (lieutenant), and an internal affair/pre-employment background investigator for a county correctional department in Missouri.

This highly qualified expert has more than 25 years of experience in FDA regulation of medical devices, encompassing nearly all FDA field positions. He earned his BA in biological sciences at California State University and completed MBA courses with Golden Gate University. This expert is certified in regulatory affairs and is an active member of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, the American Society for Quality, and the FDA Alumni Association. Further, he has several publications and has presented both nationally and internationally on topics in his field. In his early career, this expert served as a consumer safety officer, consumer affairs officer, and representative for small businesses at the FDA. He then held several industry leadership roles, including manager of regulatory affairs at Unitek Corporation and vice president of regulatory affairs in clinical research and quality assurance at both Retroperfusion Systems Inc. and Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Additionally, this expert was a medical device specialist, a compliance officer, and the director of import operations at the FDA Los Angeles District as well as a supervisory investigator at the FDA Saint Louis Office. Currently, he is a private consultant for FDA regulated businesses in Illinois.