Planning Expert Witnesses in California

This expert has ~17 years of experience as a pharmacist, with the most recent five years serving as a pharmacy director specializing in clinical pharmacy (inpatient acute care), clinical information systems, safe medical practice, quality improvement, and project management. Earlier in his career, he spent approximately 5 years as a pharmacist in a retail setting. This expert has advised and lead projects and teams on a number of start-up initiatives in the healthcare and information systems marketplace. He has also consulted on five major projects for the County of San Diego, Health, and Human Services Agency.

This expert has more than 25 years of experience the telecommunications field, performing technology-intensive analysis and project management. He earned his BA in English from Yale University, and his MS in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He has performed strategic analysis for FEMA's telecom network and contact center 5 year plans. He has functioned as an expert witness on several occasions with a 100% success rate, and is currently the CEO and principal of a private IT and telecom consulting firm.

This highly qualified expert currently serves as Director of Facilities at a major casino and hotel. He oversees the facilities maintenance department that is comprised of 100 team members that include 71 EVS attendants, 2 construction & development project managers, 2 waste water technicians, and 20 facilities team members. One of his major accomplishments includes designing, developing, and implementing a safety program for the facilities department. He is a member of the operations committee and the safety committee and served as Chairman for the fire prevention subcommittee. He has received awards for his performance as a facilities leader and he has served in a variety of facilities maintenance capacities.

This expert has over 20 years in the transportation demand management field. He is a nationally recognized, award-winning transportation planning executive and leader with experience in transportation planning, parking/transportation demand management and transit planning/operations. He also has a background including planning, data analysis, management, operations, and government relations. The last 15 years he has been working for leading research universities overseeing efforts to improve and grow use of active transportation modes.

This expert has more than a quarter century of experience developing financial and economic analyses to solve business problems. His practice principally involves intellectual property issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret as well as unfair competition antitrust matters and business valuations, breach of contract disputes, and technology assessment. acquisitions analysis, has enabled him to assist clients on a wide range of litigation issues. His industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food, industrial products, machinery, automotive aftermarket, electronic components, telecommunications, airlines, computer hardware, software, and media and entertainment. He has testified in state court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of International Trade, and before the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to joining Freeman & Mills, he served in senior corporate positions in business planning, acquisitions, and product development. He was the president of a technology marketing and licensing company; served as an economist at the Department of the Treasury, where his responsibilities included corporate fraud, technology licensing and transfer pricing; and was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a BS in engineering and an MA and a PhD in economics, all from Duke University.

This expert has more than 20 years in the Residential and Commercial construction industry, including 10+ years in Project Management and on/site Supervision for projects ranging from 10K to 5MM with 5-10 employees plus subcontractors. He has experience in planning and scheduling, architectural and structural drawings, developing bids and proposals, materials management, purchasing, invoicing, submittals & samples, code requirements, contracts and change orders. He is currently the Construction Superintendent at a construction company where he is responsible for running the day to day operations on high end residential construction sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This impressive expert received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and his MS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. A registered Professional Engineer in California, he has been awarded the USC Mellon Mentoring Award. Formerly, he was a principal engineer and principal construction manager at Trojan Construction Management, the vice president of construction at Kaufman & Broad, and a project engineer and estimator at George A. Fuller Company. Currently, he is the program director of Civil Engineering, a professor of Engineering Practice, and the founding program director of Construction Management at a prestigious university in Los Angeles.

This qualified expert earned his BS in computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has over ten years of experience in technical analysis for software intellectual property matters and two patents. This expert has been published over five times and has presented at various conferences in his field. He is a former firmware developer for Theranos, Inc. and a former project manager and research engineer for Zeidman Consulting. Currently, he serves as the principal and intellectual property technical advisor for a software development and analysis consulting firm.

This expert has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. He received his BA in applied mathematics from UC Berkeley and his MS in applied and computational mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. He also earned his MBA in entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland. He is a certified information systems security professional. For many years, this expert worked for the NSA in varying roles. He began as a software and electrical engineer in the engineering solution branch, the link systems branch, and the radio frequency branch. He then served as an applied research mathematician for the cryptanalyst development program before becoming a project manager for the sustained operations branch and the security manager for the vulnerability analysis branch. After his work with the NSA, this expert went on to be the founder and CEO of Passrock Inc, an enterprise security technology company. He then went to be the cybersecurity lead for MITRE Corporation and the chief information security officer for AirMap. He has received multiple awards for his work, including two NSA special achievement awards and Certified Information Security Officer of the Year from the Los Angeles Business Journal. This expert is currently the CEO of an online interactive cybersecurity training company based in California.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the planning, design, investigation, analysis, and quality control processes of residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial construction projects. He received his BS from the Evergreen State College, before entering the field of architecture. He is a registered architect and a licensed general contractor in the state of California. This expert is active in his field as a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Construction Specification Institute. Previously, he served as a senior planner for the Nisqually Indian Tribe, an advanced drafter for Krommenhoek, McKeowen & Associates, a designer and job captain for SGPA Planning and Architecture, a site planner at Schoell and Paul Architecture and Planning, and as a partner and project architect at FAD Architecture and Planning. Currently, he is the president of an architectural firm in California.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 35 years of experience in internet technology, specializing in mobile operating systems and eCommerce. He earned his BS in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and began his career as a group manager of the Network File System at Sun Microsystems. He then served as the principal engineer and mobility team manager of GO, a mobile computing startup, before accepting a position at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, he held a number of roles, including technical program manager for Internet Explorer 1.0, Visual Interdev 6.0, Windows CE 1.0, ASP.NET 1.0, and Visual Studio.NET. He also served as the vice president of product for Earth Class Mail before founding and serving as the CEO of Touchfire. Currently, this expert is the owner of an Internet technology consulting group in Washington and the director of product and technology for an eCommerce and AdTech startup in California.

This highly qualified expert has 50 years of experience in the field of engineering. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from Rutgers University and has completed a multitude of professional development courses and seminars over the course of his career. This expert is a licensed professional engineer in 5 states and is a certified diver. He is active in his field as a member of numerous organizations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers, the International Association of Forensic Sciences, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has also previously served as the president of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. This expert has previously served as a field service engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, electrical project manager for American Biltrite, senior electrical design engineer for Air Products and Chemicals, and consulting engineer for Paul Zamrowski Associates. Currently, he serves as a consulting electrical engineer for an independent engineering consultancy, with experience investigating the causes of electrical malfunctions, failures, or injury in cases of fires, lightning strikes and power surges, electrical shocks and electrocution, shipping damage, and accident reconstruction.

This expert has over 35 years of experience in parking design and planning. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a BA in construction management. He is a member of the National Parking Association and the International Parking Institute. He was formerly a parking consultant with the planning division of the Allright Corporation before becoming vice president of parking for Allright. He also served as a senior parking consultant for International Parking Design. Currently, he is a partner at a parking design group and splits his time between California and Iowa.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 35 years of experience in safety products distribution. He received his BSME from the University of Delaware before earning his MBA in finance and strategic planning from Gannon University. This expert specializes in supply chain management for safety products, including product development of electronics, aircraft and aerospace parts, industrial controls, motors, power tools appliances, and sprinklers. He has formerly served as the manager of production engineering and speed variator products operation at General Electric, the plant manager of the US housewares division of Black & Decker, and director of manufacturing planning and vice president of operations for both outdoor manufacturing and the household division of Sunbeam Corporation. Currently, this expert serves as the CEO and founder of a private consulting company based in California.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience in the field of healthcare architectural design. He earned his BS in architecture from Ohio State University and then went on to earn his MArch from Kent State University. He is a certified interior designer and a licensed architect in California. He was formerly a project manager and director at Llewelyn-Davis Sahni, Inc, as well as a health-care architecture consultant at Ramin Sadr, AIA. Additionally, he was the regional supervisor for the health facilities review for the California State Government, Office of Statewide Health. This expert is currently a healthcare architect for an independent consulting firm in California.

This expert has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including sales, operations, marketing, distribution, and project management. This expert earned his BA in business management from Georgia Institute of Technology and later earned his MBA at California Coast University. In addition, this expert is a certified Project Management Professional and is certified in medical sales from the Health Industry Distributors Association. He has held several positions throughout his career including director of national accounts at Valeant Pharmaceuticals, director of managed markets at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, director of sales, marketing, & operations at Assertio Therapeutics, and director of sales, marketing, & operations at Advanced Mircroclean. This expert is currently an account manager at an independent technology and equipment lessor in California.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 60 years of experience as a chemical and mechanical engineer. He has demonstrated experience in a number of areas including: speciality and industrial chemicals, petrochemicals, polymers, fertilizers, phosphoric and sulfuric acid, phosphate, mineral processing, dyestuffs and intermediates, coal and coal chemicals, industrial wastewater treatment, cryogenics, gas liquefaction, refinery units, boilers, utilities, cryogenics, sulfur plants, engineered materials, building materials, food processing, animal feed, pipelines, and marine terminals. This earned his BS in chemical engineering from Cairo University, is a fellow of the Institute for the Advancement Of Engineering, and has 3 patents published through the United States, as well as 6 additional patents pending. This expert began his career as a chemical engineer at Chemicoke before going on to serve as a construction engineer at Engineering General Company, a development engineer and industrial chemist at Wunderlich Limited, a chemical engineer at The Austin Company, the chief mechanical engineer at McDonald Engineering Construction Group, a process projects engineer at Superior Air Products, a project engineer at Ralph Parsons, and both a proposal manager and project manager at Occidental Petroleum Corporation. For the past 37 years, this expert has served as the chief engineer at an independent engineering firm in California.

This highly qualified expert received his BA in architectural history at Oberlin College and his MA in architecture at the University of California Los Angeles. He is a certified registered architect with 35 years of experience in his field and has published on the subject of architecture. He has experience in managing, planning, coordinating, and directing firms, as well as with contracts and management issues including complicated lease, construction, consultant and client contracts. He formerly held a number of positions, including serving as a senior associate and project manager at MBT Architecture, as a founder and principal at Group 41 Incorporated and WK Design Group, respectively, and as a principal and managing director at NELSON Worldwide. Currently, this expert is a consultant at an architecture firm in California.

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 premises liability expert is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and is a credentialed safety engineer with over 20 years of experience in his field. He has also published several articles on concepts in safety and design.