Train Accident Expert Witnesses in Oregon

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 highly qualified expert is trained for every type fo accident reconstruction with the except of aircraft. This expert can assist in profduct defect causation and has extensive court experiencve. Additionally, he is a member of multiple soceities. He has over 35 years of expwereince in motorsports and is hte author of 400 technical articles and 3 books.

This expert is a Licensed Private Investigator, and he has participated in SIU investigations of fraudulent injury and auto theft claims as well as auto repair fraud. He has many years of field and courtroom experience. In addition, he has been authorized by the California Bar Association to provide continuing Legal Education in the fields of Collision Reconstruction and the Bio-mechanics of Injury. He has served on the Expert Panel for Los Angeles County Superior Court, criminal prosecution and defense. He was formerly a Senior Associate Staff Instructor for the Federal Transit Administration, United States Department of Transportation, and Transportation Safety Institute for approximately ten years. He has also had technical training in low-speed collisions, pedestrian and bicycle accidents.

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 25-plus years of Automotive Safety Research and Development, Accident Reconstruction, Concept Vehicle Design and Manufacture as a Scientist Engineer, Project Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Systems Engineer, (Design, Development, Manufacturing and Test Engineer). Qualified as a Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Bio-Mechanical Engineering Expert in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura, Kern, Alameda and San Bernardino Counties, Alaska, Iowa, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Massachusetts and Texas. He has thirty-five years of Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction, Automobile and Motorcycle Product Defect, Forensic and Occupant Biomechanical Injury Analysis, Automotive Safety, Vehicle Design, Development, Manufacturing, Test Engineering and Patent Infringement analysis. This expert has extensive experience and knowledge of product defects in the following areas: Automobile, Truck, Motorcycle, Jet Ski, ATV, Snow Mobile, Golf Cart, Big Rig Truck cases: Involving airbags, seatbelts, seats, fuel system fires, transmission part-to-reverse, unintended acceleration, brakes, tires, axle failures, roof crush, side impact, roll propensity, vehicle handling dynamics, suspension and chassis, design and manufacturing defects.

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 Reconstructions, National Association of Railroad Safety Consultants and Investigators and the International Society of Biomechanics. He is currently the President of an Accident Reconstruction & Biomechanics firm.