Environmental Engineering Expert Witnesses in Virginia

This expert has over 10 years of professional experience in OSHA & MSHA advisory services, specifically as it relates to hazardous materials management, oil & gas rig safety, environmental engineering, and fire safety. He earned a Master of Occupational Safety & Health/Environmental Management from Columbia Southern University and a PhD in Safety Sciences from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Safety Professional through Board of Certified Safety Professionals and teaches field safety protocols for the NCCER Core curriculum. This expert is currently a professor of safety management & environmental/fire protection engineering at a Texas based university and a principal consultant providing OSHA & MSHA advisory services.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in environmental engineering. He obtained his BS in physics and chemistry from Nagpur University, his MS in chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Sciences, and his second MS in environmental engineering from Malviya National Institute of Technology in India, before moving to the United States, where he obtained his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Toledo. Today, he is certified in compound inspection, hazardous waste stream determination, and environmental resources and environmental inspection. This expert is also a licensed air quality and indoor air quality engineer and an active member of the Air and Waste Management Association, the Internal Congress of Chemistry and Environment, the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Moreover, he is very active in academia, having published and researched on topics related to environmental engineering and having developed two patents pertaining to engine exhaust. This expert previously served as an adjunct physics faculty member at Baker College, as the senior chemist and bacteriologist for the City of Toledo, as a post-doctoral research associate of wastewater treatment at Baylor University, and as a wastewater, statics, hydrology, and water resources engineering faculty member at the University of Toledo. He is currently an environmental inspector for the Department of Environmental Protection in West Virginia.