Lighting Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This expert brings 40+ years of electrical engineering experience to a continuing career in failure analysis and electrical fire investigations. In addition to his professional work for several industrial firms, he has taught these subjects at the Illinois Fire Academy., Wisconsin IAAI.

This engineering expert has over 30 years of experience in the field. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering and his Master of Engineering Science in Ireland before coming to the United States while working for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, where he designed electronic hardware and system software for air braked truck / trailer ABS and traction control systems. He then worked on ABS and traction control for passenger cars and subsequently started the Electronics Division at Wabash National which he led from 1998 to 2003. From 2004 until 2007, the expert worked for Dana Commercial Vehicle Systems, where he spent a year leading the development of automatic tire inflation products for commercial and military applications. Before starting his own consultancy he led the development of Traction Control, ABS and related technology for Caterpillar Inc. from 2007 to 2015. This included positioning Caterpillar as the industry leader in differential clutch based drive torque distribution and traction control for off highway vehicles. He has been granted 23 patents and is a Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

This expert has over 20 years of telecommunications, intellectual property, and business management experience. He received his BS in computer and electrical engineering and his MS in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Currently, this expert is a consultant in the telecommunication, intellectual property, and cryptography industries. He has published 16 telecommunications-related patents. Formerly, he has worked as a lead engineer at Motorola, the head of IP and head of customer insights and experience/subscriber data management at Nokia, the vice-president of product management and general manager for America at Nokia and as the vice-president of product management at Cirries. He is currently Managing Director of Operations for a firm specializing in cryptography and related systems for Internet and communications security.

This highly-qualified expert has years of experience in capital markets in addition to an impressive background in engineering and information technology. He received his BS in electrical engineering from Boḡaziçi University in his home country of Istanbul before earning both his MS in computer engineering and his PhD in electrical engineering at Syracuse University. He has experience in a variety of areas, including exchanges, over-the-counter platforms, securities, futures, options, clearing, commodities, stocks, fintech, software, and market manipulation. He is active in his field as an author of several journal articles and conference proceedings. He held a number of roles in the engineering field before transitioning his focus to capital markets. Some notable engineering positions of his include product engineer for Caterpillar and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University. More recently, he has served as a fixed income product advisor for JP Morgan, a market designer and the CTO for the Stock Exchange of the Caribbean, the co-founder of Numéraire Technology, and a partner at Myra Trading. Currently, this expert is the president of a global finance advisory in Illinois.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in architecture and the functionality of built environments, with his work involving public spaces, premises liability, design problem, and architectural copyright for a wide range of building and property types. He received his BS in communications from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before earning his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in architecture from University College London, and his DTech in built environment from Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He is active in his field as a member of several associations, including the American Real Estate Society, the Cliff Dwellers, and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. This expert is also involved in the field as an author of a multitude of peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and professional criticisms and reviews. He has also presented at various conferences on the local, national, and international levels throughout his career. He has formerly served as a planner for the Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois Planning Commission, a designer for Skidmore Ownings & Merrill, the acting project architect for Douglas Schroeder Associates, and the managing director of Space Syntax. He also has an abundance of academic experience, having previously served as an associate professor of architecture at Arizona State University, the associate dean and an associate professor of architecture and planning at the University of Colorado Denver, and the head of real estate management and development at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Currently, this expert is the owner of a product design company and the principal and owner of a design analysis firm.