Elevators and Escalators Expert Witnesses in South Dakota

This highly qualified expert is specialized in elevators, escalators, moving walks, dumbwaiters, and stage lifts. He is a certified elevator inspector and previously held a number of positions, including working as a service mechanic and troubleshooter and as the Southwest regional local representative for Amtech Elevator Services. He also served as the principal and vice president at Elevator Advisors International, Inc., as the Los Angeles service operations manager at Thyssenkrupp, and as the director of operations at Scott Elevator Consultants, Inc. Currently, this expert is the owner and president of an elevator consultancy in Minnesota.

This expert has over 35 years of forensic engineering experience, and he has investigated and worked up more than 100 cases in each area of slip/trip/miss and fall, accident reconstruction and crash analyses, and product failure. He has published papers in the Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE). He has long been active in professional societies and is a past chairman of several. He has been listed in Who's Who in Engineering and Science. He has given expert witness testimony in Federal Courts, State Courts, Local Courts, Arbitration Hearings, and in depositions.

This highly qualified mechanical engineer has been in his field for more than 35 years, with demonstrated experience in structures and materials, process control technology, and the power industry. He earned his MS in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University and his EMBA from Southern Methodist University. He is a fellow and member of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Society of Automation and a registered professional engineer in Iowa. He holds 11 patents related to control valve design and maintenance and has published a book and several technical articles on control design, installation, and maintenance. He worked with Fisher for over 15 years in various roles, as a product engineer, a nuclear liaison engineer, a senior project engineer, and finally as vice president of global nuclear business. This expert is currently a consultant at an independent mechanical engineering company.