Engineering Expert Witnesses in California

This highly-qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in electrical and electronics engineering, rail transit systems design, construction, project management, light rail vehicle, and field wayside maintenance areas. He earned his BS in electrical and electronics engineering from California State University at Sacramento and his MBA in strategic leadership from Amberton University. He is licensed as a registered professional engineer in California. He formerly served as a technologist for Bechtel Power Corporation, a stop and zones technician and acting administrator for Orange County Transportation Authority, a project engineer for DCM Industries and Balfour Beatty Rail Systems. He also served as the associate systems design engineer for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, working with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) team on the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit (SVRT) BART Extension Project. Currently, this expert is a senior systems engineer of rail operations for a local transportation authority in California.

This expert has over 32 years as an Accident Reconstructionist and Forensic Engineer, and is ACTAR Accredited. He is a certified Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) technician, operator and data analyst. He is a former Chair of the Engineering Sciences section and Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a member of 5 additional forensic groups including CAARS, NAPARS, SAE, SATAI and SOAR. He has 100 publications and presentations in the field of forensic automotive engineering and is currently the owner of an Accident Reconstruction firm.

This highly qualified expert specializes in engineering and regulatory affairs for medical device commercialization. She earned a BS in mathematics from Oregon State University and a MS in Medical Device and Diagnostic Engineering from the University of Southern California. This expert currently owns and operates her own medical device company where she prepares and submits FDA regulatory services 510k applications.

This highly qualified expert from the field of computer science has an MS and a Ph.D from John Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of Association of Computing Machinery and Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. This expert has received several awards for his work, including Best Paper awards, Vice President’s Research Excellence Award and Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Medal among others. He has over 200 publications and is also an editor with International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, ACM Transactions on Sensor Network, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science and Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications. Currently he serves as professor, Director for Center of Geometric Computation and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at a renowned university.

This premises liability expert is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and is a credentialed safety engineer with over 20 years of experience in his field. He has also published several articles on concepts in safety and design.

This expert specializes in gas station and convenience store operations, management, and safety, with specific focus on site valuations, operating procedures, capital and expense management. He earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a MBA in Finance from Drexel University. He has 37 years of experience in the downstream petroleum refining and marketing industry with ARCO and BP. As President of BP West Coast Products, LLC and Vice President Retail Operations, he had responsibility for ARCO gasoline retail sales and AMPM operations worldwide, consisting of the C-Store business with 700 franchisees, 3000 convenience stores, and $3 billion in revenue.

This expert works as the vice president of engineering for a large fitness corporation. He has worked in the industry for over over thirty years, is familiar with industry trends, and is familiar with the history of numerous fitness products. He holds multiple patents for highly used fitness equipment and has published multiple articles on product safety/warning labels. He is chairman of the committee responsible for fitness industry standards and has authored or contributed to all standards published to date. He has worked on product liability cases for 34 years assisting both defense and plaintiffs attorneys.

This master electrician has almost 40 years of hands on experience. His areas of expertise include national electrical code compliance, safety code compliance, high voltage electrical safety orders, grounding and bonding of electrical systems, electrical line contact, high voltage contact, power plant wiring, ANSI standards, electrical patent infringement, accident investigation and OSHA standards. He is currently a private electrical contractor in California.

This expert is one of two owners and a Principal Scientist at a major environmental firm. This firm specializes in providing solutions to challenging agricultural and environmental problems throughout the world. Their areas of expertise include soil science, water quality and demand evaluation and management, agricultural systems, salinity and nutrient management, ecosystem restoration, statistics, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, land stabilization, and regulatory policy. Since earning his PhD in Soil Science, this expert has 19 years of experience in agricultural consulting in the United States. Before co-founding Land IQ, this expert spent 5 years with an agricultural and environmental firm.

This expert is a statistician experienced in data analysis and statistical methods to evaluate field performance of vehicles and consumer products. Her key areas of expertise include; statistical analysis using field data; consumer complaint data analysis; warranty data analysis; claims data analysis; customer contact data analysis; economic valuation; damage assessment; econometric/financial modeling; analyses of large complex data sets; regression analysis and ANOVA; reliability analysis, and more. This expert has been involved in several studies using warranty/customer contact or claims data to predict the number of claims/failures and annual claim/failure rates for various consumer and industrial products.

This highly qualified expert is a semiconductor memory industry analyst with a strong engineering background. He received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech and his M.A. in Business Administration at the University of Phoenix. He is a patent holder in cache memory design, has published 50+ articles in the field, and is the creator of two independent blogs that frequently cover both memory and SSD technologies. He has strong ties with all major memory chip makers (Samsung, Micron, SK hynix, SanDisk, Toshiba, Intel, Macronix, Spansion, etc) other members of the memory ecosystem (Kingston, PNY, Applied Materials, etc.) and SSD makers and users (IBM, Western Digital, Seagate, Kingston, etc.) This expert has 32 years professional experience and deep technical knowledge in the semiconductor space. He has worked at Intel Corporation, National Semiconductor, Siemens, Integrated Device Technology, and other leading firms. As Director and Chief Analyst at Dataquest, he was responsible for all memory forecasts, models, and analysis. As Senior Director of Corporate marketing at a major technology firm, he implemented marketing programs to sell SST’s flash memories. As Director of a flash memory research firm., he developed key analysis of memory markets and led the analysts team's research efforts in chip and application markets. Currently, he is the President of a semiconductor market research firm, where he is the leading analyst for the semiconductor memory and SSD markets.

This expert has been involved in the LED industry since 2005. He managed the patent portfolio for Color Kinetics and enjoyed considerable success in building out a functional licensing program for the world-wide LED industry. He went on to be the IP Strategist and GM of Custom Solutions for Lighting Science Group. Since 2010 he has worked as an independent advisor to a wide range of LED companies in North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on IP strategy, product development, new market entry, fund-raising, and related activities. He is a former instructor in IP strategy for the Licensing Executive Society. He currently serves on technical advisory boards and boards of directors for LED lighting companies in the US and Europe, and remains active in assisting both young and established companies in the pursuit of their goals for growth.'

This expert has been working as a mechanical engineer and testifying expert witness for over 30 years. He holds both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BES from Georgia Tech. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Member of SAE and ASM. This expert is a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer (PE), providing expertise across a wide range of engineering topics and fields. He has deep experience in medical devices including cardiovascular, orthopedic, and spinal applications and applications of nitinol shape memory materials. He has experience as an Expert Witness, has testified in trial and deposition, and authored expert reports and IPR declarations. He works in patents and product failure analysis and forensics. He was previously Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Santa Clara University as well as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

This expert is a well-versed IT and telecommunications expert, receiving a Ph.D. in Computer Networking. He has published a dozen papers in professional journals and conferences, and holds two patents related to distributed base station controllers. He previously served as the VP of Business Development of Huawei R&D and the Managing Director of R&D at Vodafone Group. This expert is currently a private consultant in the telecommunications industry.

This well credentialed expert earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cal State Fullerton and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering/Structural Mechanics from UC-Irvine. He is a Professional Engineer in the state of California and has 46 U.S. patents issued in his name. Prior to starting his own engineering consulting firm, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Hartwell Corporation and the Vice President of Research and Development at Textron Aerospace Fasteners. He is a member of several industry organizations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

This computational scientist is a member of the professional staff at a prestigious science and technology university in California, where he works in the school's Center for Advanced Computing Research. The expert earned a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of Sheffield. He held a staff physicist position at CERN before assuming his current role. The expert is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His current research interests include high performance network and computing systems and grid architectures.

This expert is an endowed professor of Weed Science at a very prominent university in California. He is the author of 2 patents, 5 books, and over 100 scholarly publications in field of Weed Science and Agronomy. He earned his doctoral degree from Kansas State University and later served as an agronomist and weed specialist at Washington State University, as well as a lecturer in Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington. He is an active member of the United States Council for Agriculture Science and Technology, the Weed Science Society of America, and the International Society of Plant Protection.

This highly qualified engineering expert specializes in water treatment engineering, design, and operations. He is a certified water treatment and distribution operator. He belongs to a number of prestigious societies in the water treatment field and has authored more than 5 publications on the topic. This expert is currently a private water treatment industry consultant.

This registered Professional Electrical Engineer and Professional Control Systems Engineer earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He holds more than 25 US patents and is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as well as the National Fire Protection Association. For a number of years he served as the Chief Engineer at the Tyco Corporation, developing heat tracing technologies. Since 2008, he has operated an independent San Francisco Bay Area consultancy specializing in electrical and mechanical engineering.

This highly qualified expert received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University University. He is the primary inventor of 11 patents and has reviewed 20+ cases on patent validity and infringement since 1998. He is a Fellow of several professional organizations in the field including the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, American Physical Society, and The Optical Society of America. Formerly, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he researched novel sources of ultraviolet and soft X-ray coherent radiation, advanced lithography, picosecond optoelectronics, semiconductor physics, surface physics, MOS device physics, and integrated circuit process technology. He held management positions as Head of the Laser Science Research Department and Head of the ULSI Technology Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs. He has also done technical consulting for Rodel Inc., Alpha Golf, Inc., University Technology Ventures, Inc., and Veeco Metrology Group. Currently, this expert is the Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Chair of the EE Division, College of Engineering at a high-ranking major university.

This expert has over 35 years of experience in the field of bridge design and construction. He earned his BS at the Portuguese Military Academy, and a Graduate Engineering Diploma and MS in Structural Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). He is certified as a Professional Civil Engineer, as an Expert Analyst in Finite Elements Methods, and as an Advanced Concrete Technologist. He has previously served as a Senior Regional Bridge Engineer for the SE of the US and South America while working for AECOM, Head of Structural Design for Consulgal, and has worked on a number of projects as a freelance Expert Consultant in Structural and Bridge design and construction. He currently serves as a Senior Supervising Engineer for an Engineering company ranked at the top 20 in the US, in their Irvine office in California.

This expert is a retired police officer and owner of a police training and consulting firm. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Management, a Masters of Science in Psychology and is completing a doctoral degree in Performance Psychology. He is a Certified Criminal Investigator with the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute and a Force Science Certified Analyst with the Force Science Institute He currently teaches the application of Human Factors science to a police officer's use of force (Attention, Perception, Response Time, Decision Making, and Memory). He is also an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, a Police Academy Instructor, and a Force Options Simulator Instructor at a large regional training center. His policing experience includes positions in; SWAT, Field Training, Gangs, Narcotics, Supervision Media Relations, and Use of Force Training.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of Chemical Engineering. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is on the Advisory Board of the Endowed Fund for Cyrogenic Research, and the Board of Directory for the Cyrogenic Society of America, and has 7 patents in Cyrogenics. This expert has authored over 60 publications and 55 scientific papers, as well as lectured extensively on topics relating to his field, and has coauthored a book on Cyrogenics. He currently holds academic positions at two major universities in California, lecturing on Cryogenics and Astronautical Engineering. He also serves as an Engineering Specialist for an Aerospace Company, and the Technical Director of a major US Defense Contractor.

This expert has been in the field of Forensic Engineering for the past 6 years. He earned his BS from California State University of Fresno, and his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University. He is a certified Mechanical Engineer, and currently works as an Engineering Consultant at a Forensic Engineering Firm in California.

This expert has over 20 years of expertise in materials consulting and forensic engineering work. He received a bachelor's in manufacturing engineering from Brunel University of West London. He continued on at Brunel to earn his PhD in metallurgy. A licensed metallurgical engineer, he is a member of the American Society of Testing & Materials and the American Society of Materials International. He served as a senior metallurgical engineer at Testing Engineers INC. and a materials engineer for the RJ Lee Group. Currently he works as a senior metallurgical engineer.

This expert on Electrical Engineering has over 28 years of experience. He is experienced in lighting, power, fire alarm and communication design for institutional, medical, commercial and design/build projects. He has performed analysis of electrical systems for hospitals, military and industrial facilities. His background in electrical engineering provided a solid platform for performing Forensic Services. Over the past fifteen years, he has given testimony at arbitration and deposition for Superior and Federal Court cases. His cases have involved residential construction defects, fire investigations, product defects, electric shock, overhead and underground building systems, lighting surveys, electrical failures, code analysis, personal injury and electrical design. This expert also performs commissioning of electrical and lighting systems, electrical design and construction document reviews and is LEED AP certified.

This expert is licensed as a Civil Engineer and a Land Surveyor in both California and Arizona, and he has worked throughout Southern California. Having earned his degrees in engineering and business from California State University at Northridge, he previously served as the Director of Engineering and Surveying at multiple engineering firms, including the Haaland Group and Crosby Mead Benton. A member of the California Land Surveyors Association and the American Public Works Association, he is currently the Principal of a multi-disciplined firm in California.

This impressive expert received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and his MS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. A registered Professional Engineer in California, he has been awarded the USC Mellon Mentoring Award. Formerly, he was a principal engineer and principal construction manager at Trojan Construction Management, the vice president of construction at Kaufman & Broad, and a project engineer and estimator at George A. Fuller Company. Currently, he is the program director of Civil Engineering, a professor of Engineering Practice, and the founding program director of Construction Management at a prestigious university in Los Angeles.

This electric engineer has over 40 years of experience and is active as a consultant. He earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Heald College and is licensed in California as a professional electrical engineer. The expert started his career as an electrical engineer with RE Corp., where he estimated electrical construction projects and earned his electrical contractor's license. He spent several years running his own firm that specialized in the design and construction of facility automation systems, HVAC systems, and lighting control systems. He is now an independent consultant, primarily working on litigation matters.

This highly qualified expert has over thirty years of experience in mechanical engineering with a specialization in failure analysis. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles and his MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. This expert is a licensed professional mechanical engineer in California and Nevada and has four patents. He remains current in his field as a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers as well as the author of over fifteen articles. He formerly served as the managing engineer for Exponent, Inc. and as the founder and owner of Principia Engineering Services. He is now the founder of an engineering failure analysis consultancy.

This qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience in the field of marine engineering. He received his LLB from the University of London before earning his MSc in engineering and management from the University of Portsmouth. He then received his LLM in maritime law from London Metropolitan University and his LLM in U.S. law from Washington University St. Louis. He is certified by the International Register of Certificated Auditors as a maritime auditor and licensed as a Class 1 MCA UK chief engineer. He is active in his field as a member of the Society of Naval Architects, the International Institute of Marine Surveying, the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, and the Institute of Marine Engineers. His former positions include staff engineer for Cunard Line, the senior surveyor and senior maritime auditor for Lloyds Register, an associate for London Offshore Consultants, and the president of A.M. Marine Surveys. Currently, this expert serves as the president of a maritime consultancy based in California.

This highly qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in the field of bioengineering. He earned his BS in electrical engineering, two MS degrees - one in mechanical engineering and the other in electrical engineering - and his PhD in bioengineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is certified in deep learning with MATLAB and as a Level 1 chartered market technician and DTR international securities exchange trader. He is active in his field as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Communications Society, and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He is also highly involved in research, having received multiple grants for his research and authored numerous publications. This expert currently holds 21 patents. He has held a number of distinguished positions throughout his career serving as the chief technology officer for 4-D Imaging, the chief risk officer of Carlyle Blue Wave Partners, and the chief science officer of Heart in Your Hand LLC and Endovantage LLC. Currently, this expert serves as an associate professor of engineering at a well-known university in Arizona, an associate professor of radiology at a medical university in Arizona, and the lead of camera software for a leading technology company.

This highly qualified expert has 50 years of experience in the field of engineering. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from Rutgers University and has completed a multitude of professional development courses and seminars over the course of his career. This expert is a licensed professional engineer in 5 states and is a certified diver. He is active in his field as a member of numerous organizations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers, the International Association of Forensic Sciences, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has also previously served as the president of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. This expert has previously served as a field service engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, electrical project manager for American Biltrite, senior electrical design engineer for Air Products and Chemicals, and consulting engineer for Paul Zamrowski Associates. Currently, he serves as a consulting electrical engineer for an independent engineering consultancy, with experience investigating the causes of electrical malfunctions, failures, or injury in cases of fires, lightning strikes and power surges, electrical shocks and electrocution, shipping damage, and accident reconstruction.

This expert earned his BS in structural engineering at the University of Science and Technology in Iran and his MS in structural engineering from the University of British Columbia. This expert holds structural engineering licenses in California, Washington, Hawaii, Arizona, and Nevada and professional engineering licenses in California and Washington. He is active in his field as a member of several professional organizations including the Structural Engineers Association of California. He has worked as a subject matter expert for structural engineering exams for the California Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, the director of the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California and a lecturer of engineering for several structural engineering programs throughout California. For the past 34 years, he has served as the managing director at a structural engineering consulting firm in California.

This highly qualified expert has twenty years of experience in digital product design and development with a focus on user experience and human computer interaction. She received her BA in mathematics and economics from Occidental College and then both her MS in operations research engineering and PhD in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California. She currently holds four patents relating to user interface. This expert has held a variety of roles in the industry, beginning her career as a software engineer for PCS and then as a product development consultant for a number of companies. She then went on to cofound and serve as the director of product for Tagasauris, a company focused on building mobile and web-based products. She has also served as a researcher for the Museum of the City of New York, a director of mobile product strategy at DIRECTV, and then as a part-time lecturer of engineering at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is a senior lecturer of engineering at a university in California.

This highly-qualified engineering expert has over three decades of experience in his field. He earned a BS in civil engineering from National Technology University. He went on to earn an MS in civil engineering, an MS in aeronautics and astronautics, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is active is in field as the author of numerous engineering publications and the founder and director of several engineering laboratories focusing on surface mechanics. Formerly, he served as a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Currently, this expert is a principal investigator at a technological research institute, a faculty materials scientist at a DOE-affiliated research laboratory, and a professor of mechanical engineering at a distinguished university in California.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in electrical engineering, with his work focusing on high voltage electric power transmission, distribution, and substation design, construction, operations & maintenance, control centers, and in particular electrical safety. He is also exceptionally familiar with industrial, commercial, and residential electrical systems, including the vast array of industry standards, codes, and best practice applications. He received his BS in electrical engineering from California State University before earning his MS in electrical engineering from the University of Nevada. A licensed professional engineer in the state of California, this expert is also certified by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation as a reliability coordinator and is licensed by the FCC in general radiotelephone, advanced class amateur radio, and as a global maritime distress safety system operator and maintainer. He is active in his field as an author of multiple textbooks and publications on the subject of electric power and is a member of several professional organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers. He worked for NV Energy for 15 years, as a telecommunications operations supervisor, a relay protection operations supervisor, a senior distribution engineer, and a senior substation design engineer. For the past 27 years, this expert has served as an electrical engineering consultant for an electric power engineering and safety consulting firm based in California.