Retail Safety Expert Witnesses in Arkansas

This expert has been working in the retail automotive industry for over 40 years. He has been a contributing monthly columnist to an automotive dealer publication for nearly 20 years, while he is the co-author and co-presenter of an automotive management course. He has extensive hands-on experience in dealership sales, development, operations, and management, and he has been an invited speaker before the Brazil Auto Dealer Association, the South Africa Auto Dealer Association, the JD Power Super Roundtable, and multiple National Automobile Dealers Association meetings and events. A former General Manager at Superior Automotive Group, this expert managed a staff of 300 employees; he had complete management responsibilities of Superior Buick-Cadillac retail operations as well as management oversight of Nissan, Hyundai, Ford, Lexus, 2 used vehicle operations, and a collision center. Currently, this expert is the President and Principal of his own retail automotive industry consulting firm, providing professional management expertise and analytical services.

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.