Planning Expert Witnesses in New York

This expert is currently a wood scientist and has been working in the wood industry for almost 20 years. He earned a BS in Construction Management & Wood Products Engineering from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry and a Masters Degree in Forest Products from Oregon State University. This expert focuses primarily in investigations of problems associated with wood and wood-based products, evaluations of wood products used in construction, and management of testing laboratories.

This expert is an experienced manufacturing engineer with a solid background in 3d modeling, design, layout, and detail for products, tooling fixtures, special machinery, robotics, and conveying systems. He has held numerous senior engineering and design positions throughout his career at firms such as American Conveyor, Adaptive Manufacturing, and ABB Robotics. Currently, he is a lead project engineer at a top engineering firm.

He has held this chair since 1984, served briefly as Deputy Dean of the Law School, and took emeritus status in 2009. His major fields of teaching and research are law and public policy; tort law; immigration, citizenship, and refugee law; groups, diversity, and law; and administrative law. This expert has taught at an Ivy League affiliated law school for more than 30 years; his fields of specialization include tort law, immigration, citizenship, and refugee law. He has written on a broad range of other public policy topics, including 5+ books. His other writing consists of more than 200 articles that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly, professional, and popular journals. He is a contributing editor to The American Lawyer, has served as an arbitrator, expert witness, and consultant in a variety of disputes, and has testified in dozens of congressional hearings. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, he was awarded a Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship (1968-70), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984-85), a residency at Rockefeller Foundation center in Bellagio (2001), and a Fulbright Senior Fellowship to lecture in India (2004). His current major project is a forthcoming book. He regularly teaches spring semesters at a CA law school. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 1979, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1977-79), Director of the Washington Office of Consumers Union (1972-77), and consultant to the Center for Study of Responsive Law (1971-72). He also practiced law in New York City (1965-68) and holds degrees from Cornell (B.A. 1962), Harvard Law School (J.D. 1965), N.Y.U. Law School (LL.M. in International Law 1966), and Harvard University (M.A. in Government 1969). He lives in New York City where he has an office and teaches periodically at a NY law school.

This expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer and a Certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer with over 30 years experience in civil and traffic engineering, land planning and project management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and is also a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, The Urban Land Institute and The International Council of Shopping Centers.He is currently a Senior Associate of an engineering firm. He is responsible for supervising the preparation of traffic and parking studies as well as roadway improvement and traffic signal plans. He is also experienced in site development feasibility studies, zoning and subdivision regulations, environmental impact statements, site planning, sewage disposal systems, cost estimating and construction observation. He has provided traffic and parking consultant services for various community planning boards.

This engineering expert has 25+ years of experience working on complex sites and marine projects. He has completed numerous projects over the course of his career, including 18+ marine/waterfront projects. He was the Project Manager and Lead Engineer for the development of a new maintenance facility for the New York Waterway at the Hoboken Ferry Terminal, the Project Manager and Lead Engineer for the expansion and repair of a main pier at SUNY Maritime's campus, and the Project Manager and Lead Engineer for a waterfront revitalization project in Brooklyn. The expert earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Bates College and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University. He is a registered professional engineer in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Nevada, and he is currently a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. The expert was previously the Assistant Vice President & Manager of the Marine and Harbor Structures Division for D'Onofrio General Contractors Corp. He is now an Adjunct Lecturer and the President of an engineering consultancy.

This highly qualified traffic engineering and highway safety expert has spent his entire career in roadway engineer in the New York area. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering and his M.S. in Transportation Planning from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and California. Early in his career, the expert worked as a Transportation Planning Engineer for a private firm and then as the Director of the Traffic Engineering Division for the City of Yonkers. More recently, he was a Traffic Systems Manager and the Assistant New York Division Director of Operations for the New York State Thruway Authority. The expert is now independent and consults on legal cases for both plaintiffs and defendants involving the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roadways and related facilities.

This expert is a Yale-trained and registered architect, LEED accredited, with over 35 years of experience in design and construction. He is the Founder/President of two firms: an architecture firm (1990-present) and a construction project management firm (2003-present). This expert offers multi-faceted expertise in the areas of architecture, design, and construction. He is the author of two books on architecture, as well as many articles on design and construction in trade publications. He has provided expert witness services on (21) cases, and is an intelligent, articulate, and well-spoken professional. His expert witness experience covers architecture, design, construction, premises liability, and standard of care. Project types include healthcare, hospitals, hotels, laboratories, offices, residential, and restaurants.

This highly-qualified expert has more than 30 years of experience in construction and real estate development. He earned his BS in accountancy from Long Island University and is a commissioned notary public in the state of New York. He then began his career as a construction superintendent at the DiCanio Organization. He then went on to serve as a project manager for multiple commercial and residential real estate developers and construction companies in New York, including Dayton Construction, Rosen Associates, Bayswater Realty and Capital, Polimeni International, Stewart Senter, and Mavec Advisors. He has extensive experience in coordination and liaison with architects, engineers, and legal consultants, as well as all aspects of contractor and subcontractor administration. Currently, this expert is a senior project manager and owner's representative for a contracting and construction group in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of academic medical center construction management and design development. His work has involved determining space analytics, programming space for optimal occupant outcomes in research and academics, program development, and commissioning of laboratory space. He received his BA from Queens College before earning his MA in environmental policy and engineering and MBA in marketing from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. This expert holds multiple certifications, including OSHA 10 construction and chemical safety training, CDC biohazard safety training, hazardous waste management, and regulated medical waste management. He is active in research in his field, having authored several papers and presented at various conferences throughout his career. He has formerly served as an emergency medical technician with the NYC Emergency Medical Services, a field compliance investigator with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, the interim vice dean for research at the State University of New York at Stony Brook's School of Medicine, and the interim departmental administrator for the neurology department at the Stony Brook University Medical Center. Currently, this expert serves as the associate dean for research, facilities, and operations at a medical school in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has over 50 years of experience as a chemical engineer specializing in flexible packaging and labeling materials and processes. He received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri before earning his MS in chemistry from the University of Delaware. He is active in his field as a board member of the Label Printing Industries of America and currently holds 40 patents internationally, with 15 of these patents filed in the United States. He has formerly served as a research engineer for the Olin Corporation, the chemical corps planning officer for the US Army, and a research engineer for E.I. duPont deNemours. This expert spent over 20 years working in the films division at Mobil Chemical Company in a variety of roles. Most notably, he served as a development engineer, the commercial development and new product development manager, and the new product identification manager of new business development and labeling materials. He also briefly served as the VP of operations and research at Scharr Industries. For the past 25 years, this expert has served as the founder and president of a labeling materials consulting company in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the finance industry, with his work focusing on ERISA, fiduciary duty, FINRA and suitability, retirement plans, financial technology, and wealth management. He earned his BS in economics with concentrations in international business and money, banking, and finance from the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is a chartered retirement planning coordinator and has previously held Series 7, 31, 63, and 65 licenses. He is active in his field as a frequently published author of finance articles. He has formerly served as a private banker at Bank Leumi USA, the director of the institutional brokerage group at Fidelity Investments/NFS, the vice president of personal financial services at Chase Bank, a financial advisor for global private clients for Merrill Lynch, vice president for JP Morgan Securities, and the vice president of Clark Dodge Asset Management. Currently, this expert serves as the managing member and project manager for a fiduciary consulting firm in New York.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience as a civil engineer. He earned his BS at Athens University of Economics and Business before earning his MS and PhD in civil engineering at Purdue University. He is active in his field as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and as the author of more than 25 peer-reviewed publications. He formerly served as a research program manager at the Center for Road Safety, as a consulting engineer at SGM Engineering, and as an assistant professor and associate director of the Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics at SUNY Buffalo. He is currently an associate professor of civil engineering and the director of a center for transportation research at a major university in New York.

This highly qualified expert has extensive background in construction management, design architecture, and forensic consulting. He earned his B.S. in Architectural Technology from the New York Institute of Technology; he is a New York State Registered Architect, a Board Certified Construction Manager and CCM Subject Area Expert with the Construction Management Association of America (CMCI). The expert works as the Managing Architect for a New York City school construction organization. He has served has a Construction Manager for projects involving Touro College facilities, Fulton Street Transit Center, the World Trade Center, Crain's Publishing Headquarters, and Watson Wyatt Worldwide among many others. He presently has a forensic consulting practice where he specializes in claims mitigation, analysis, productivity analysis, earned value analysis, contract dispute resolution, delay claim impact analysis, coupled with in-depth knowledge of cost control practices during all phases of project delivery. He is also now a PT Adjunct Professor in Construction Management and Real Estate at a large New York College.