Public Housing Expert Witnesses in Louisiana

This highly qualified residential property management expert has over 30 years of experience in his field. He earned his BA in business and real estate from the University of Tennessee and is a certified property manager. He is active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the Texas Housing Association, the Austin/Houston Apartment Association, and the Institute of Real Estate Management. This expert formerly served as the senior regional manager of the Texas Region for CMH, Inc., as the regional vice president of Sun Communities, and as the area manager of the Texas Division for Champion Industries. This expert is currently the regional director of a national real estate and property management group for properties in downtown urban areas in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, Texas.

This highly-qualified expert has 45 years of experience in the field of security and risk management. His areas of expertise include premises liability, nightclub security, security guards, apartment properties, retail loss prevention, negligent hiring/retention and cargo losses due to inadequate security. He earned his BA in sociology with an emphasis in criminology from Louisiana State University. This expert is active in his field as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, as an author of several published security articles, and a speaker at various security conferences. He began his career with Southern Research Company, serving as a security guard supervisor and as part of the investigations division working on theft and narcotics investigation. He then went on to serve as a patrol officer with the Dallas Police Department and the single unit and area loss prevention manager for Sears. For 12 years, he worked with Eckerd Corporation, serving first as a regional loss prevention manager before becoming the director of loss prevention operations. For nearly 20 years, this expert has served as the president of his risk analysis and security management consulting firm in Texas.

This expert has several years of property management experience, which includes 4 years of apartment management. For over 11 years he has also performed property safety inspections for major insurance companies. As a professional property manager, he holds the Master Property Manager designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers. He conducted workshops for their property managers both locally and nationally, and is the author of several Property management classes approved in Texas for continuing education, and the Texas Real Estate Commission has certified the expert as an instructor of property management classes. In addition to authored classes, he has had over 25 property management articles published.