Safety Expert Witnesses in Georgia

This expert trains on all phases of the food service operation. He is a certified ServSafe Instructor, Registered Examination Proctor, Certified SURE HACCP Food Safety Trainer, and Certified SURE HACCP Food Safety Manager. The SURE HACCP Food Safety Manager Certification is approved by the International HACCP Alliance. Prior to his food safety experience, he worked at a variety of hospitals in the Midwest as Director of Nutrition Service.

This expert is the only American weightlifting coach to have athletes medal at the Junior Worlds, Senior Worlds, Master Worlds, Pan-Am Championships, Pan-Am Games, and the Olympics. His instruction has produced 43 Senior National Champions, 82 Junior National Champions, 41 Youth National Champions, 31 Junior World Team Members, 9 Senior World Team members, 4 Youth World Team members and 3 Olympians. As a professional athlete, he competed at the Olympics, as well as numerous national competitions. Today, he travels the country to lecture on proper lifting technique and weightlifting safety.

This highly qualified expert has been at the forefront of advancing campus safety and victims' rights for over 25 years. He began his career in campus safety at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville after an on-campus murder. He created the first national program focused exclusively on providing assistance to the victims of campus violence, with a primary focus on sexual violence. This program assisted victims in pursuing their rights on campus under the Clery Act and Title IX. Most recently, He served as the Director of the VTV Family Outreach Foundation's 32 National Campus Safety Initiative (32 NCSI). In 2008, he was recognized on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as the leading person in this Nation in advocating more action and tougher action against crimes that are committed on campus. Through his work, he has helped to develop, draft, and secure passage of regulations for seven major pieces of federal legislation, including the Clery Act and the Campus SaVE Act. Additionally, he has trained thousands of campus officials on the Clery Act training and is widely recognized as a public speaker on campus safety issues in the national media, such as CBS Evening News, MSNBC, NPR, and Time Magazine.

This visual merchandising professional recently served as the Vice President of Visual Merchandising & Store Design for all Carter's and OshKosh B'gosh stores. He held this role from 2007 until 2016 and was responsible for the design and visual merchandising in 400 new stores. He also developed and trained field leaders in store merchandising standards. Previously, the expert served as an Associate Vice President of Visual Merchandising for Victoria's Secret and as the Director of Visual Merchandising at Limited Too. In total, he has 20 years of retail design experience. The expert is currently consulting independently on retail store design.

This certified safety professional (CSP) and authorized OSHA outreach trainer has been in the occupational safety field for more than a decade. A member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Risk Management and Insurance and MBA from the University of Georgia.