Metallurgist Expert Witnesses in Vermont

This highly qualified engineer's expertise is in metallurgy and corrosion science and engineering. He has extensive experience in litigation and litigation support as well as extensive experience in pro-active client work. He specializes in failure analysis, corrosion failure analysis, material degradation, failure prevention, material selection, material characterization, and laboratory testing. He has conducted research and failure analyses involving uniform corrosion, localized corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement, fretting corrosion, formicary corrosion, graphitic corrosion, and galvanic corrosion. He has extensive experience solving complex corrosion problems using AC and DC electrochemical techniques, accelerated exposure techniques (environmental exposure and accelerated environments), material characterization techniques (microscopy and elemental analysis), metallographic examination, fractography, on-site investigations, and failure analysis.

This structural engineering expert has extensive experience with steel structures, concrete structures, long spans, stadiums, and sports arenas. She earned her BS in architecture and her MS in civil engineering at the University of Nebraska. She is a licensed architect, professional engineer, and structural engineer, as well as a certified LEED accredited professional. Additionally, she is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She has formally worked as an architect and engineer for Clark Enerson Partners, the principal engineer at Thornton Tomasetti, and the founder and director of structural engineering at Buro Happold. She currently is the founder of a structural and facade engineering company in NY and lectures in structural engineering at an Ivy League university in Connecticut.