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 ...
This expert has nearly a decade of experience in railroad operations and safety. He is a member of both the United Transportation Union and American Corporate Partners. Formerly, he served as a railway conductor and railway crew manager at BNSF Railway, as well as a regional safety manager at Rescar. He has also served as the senior manager of operations and vice president of railway operations at Railway Safety Consultants, LLC, where he led international railway ...
This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of rail and transit operations. He completed courses at Northeastern University before earning his AS in transportation from University College at Northeastern University. He completed a bus operator and management trainee internship with the Chicago Transit Authority, a vendor warranty enforcement internship with the City of Philadelphia's Department of Public Property, and a metro LRV quality control ...
This qualified expert has over a decade of experience in his field. He received his BS in business administration with a concentration in management from Southwest Baptist University. He has held a multitude of roles in the railroad industry, including terminal trainmaster, director of administration, terminal manager and most recently superintendent of operations. This expert lead a team of over 300 train, yard, and engine employees to multiple extended human factor ...
This expert has more than 20 years of experience in the field of compensation, and is recognized worldwide for his global expertise in sales incentive plan design, as well as other kinds of variable reward and recognition programs. He has worked in both public and private sectors, and has a wide range of diversified industry experience that includes Finance, Managed Care, Food, Chemical and Durable Goods manufacturing.
He has been an invited speaker at several ...
This expert has experience as a Rail Transit operator and operations supervisor. He worked as a Field Supervisor, Rail Controller, Yard Controller, and Instructor, which included training and responding to rail related accidents as an investigator. He assisted in creating a Rail Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Rail Operating Rule Book for Metro Blue, Green and Red Line commuter trains....
This expert holds a BSCE from the University of South Alabama, and is a licensed professional civil engineer in dozens of states. She is a member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, and sits on the advisory board for the University of South Alabama Department of Civil Engineering. This expert has been in the civil engineering and design field for the last 23 years, and is currently the president/project manager/civil engineer at a top ...
Expert in rapid transit accident investigation, particularly rolling equipment and motive power, event recordings, track, operations, train handling, and human performance. He retired from the National Transportation Safety Board after 22 years as an investigator-in-charge in which time he participated in 57 major accident investigations, 32 field accident investigations, 10 public hearings, 16 depositions, and 6 special studies. He wrote 11 major accident reports, 8 ...
This accident reconstruction expert earned a masters degree in kinesiology from California State University Northridge and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA. He is a certified traffic reconstructionist and specializes in accident reconstruction and biomechanics for transportation related accidents (trains, subways, motor vehicles, buses, etc). He belongs to numerous prestigious societies in his field, including the National Association of Traffic Accident ...
Court: United States District Court for the District of Idaho Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Sherwood v. BNSF Ry. Co. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32277 Facts The plaintiff was cycling over a railroad crossing in Sandpoint, Idaho when he claimed…
Court: Court of Appeals of Michigan Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Lilly v. Grand Trunk W. R.R. Co Citation: 2019 Mich. App. LEXIS 85 Facts This case involves a worker’s compensation claim filed under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). The…
This case involves an SUV that was struck by a train doing a re-positioning maneuver in Tennessee. The motorist was driving with her 2 children at the time of the accident. She and one of her children died and one…
 This case involves several children who died when a train collided with a school bus. The normal school bus route did not involve crossing over the railroad tracks, but construction on a main municipal road caused traffic to be re-routed over the…
This case involves a railroad worker who was killed while conducting an inspection of a number of railroad cars. The worker was operating a railcar inspection vehicle when he fell onto the tracks. The impact of the fall cracked his skull and…
This case involves a train accident that occurred on an unguarded railroad crossing involving a large work van. At the time of the accident, the van was being driven to a work site by an HVAC contractor when the driver…
The owners of a railway real-estate development project in Connecticut were named in a lawsuit claiming tortious interference. The Transit Agency of a major metropolitan area, which runs the local rails and controls property nearby new metro stations, solicited bids…
This case involves a train collision in Wyoming that critically injured the plaintiff. At the time of the incident in question, there was construction going on at a railway intersection with a small intersecting road. A railroad worker was responsible…
This case involves a number of individuals who recently passed away from lung cancer, or have been diagnosed with the same, after working for a major railroad operator for an extended period of time. All of the men involved in the suit…