Retail Safety Expert Witnesses in Oklahoma

This expert specializes in safety/loss prevention, training and facility maintenance, safety program design & development, and retail management. He has more than 20 years of experience serving with retail/wholesale industry leaders, including The Home Depot, Sears, Kohl's, and C&S Wholesale Grocers. Currently, this expert is the owner of a private retail safety consulting firm.

This highly-qualified expert has 45 years of experience in the field of security and risk management. His areas of expertise include premises liability, nightclub security, security guards, apartment properties, retail loss prevention, negligent hiring/retention and cargo losses due to inadequate security. He earned his BA in sociology with an emphasis in criminology from Louisiana State University. This expert is active in his field as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, as an author of several published security articles, and a speaker at various security conferences. He began his career with Southern Research Company, serving as a security guard supervisor and as part of the investigations division working on theft and narcotics investigation. He then went on to serve as a patrol officer with the Dallas Police Department and the single unit and area loss prevention manager for Sears. For 12 years, he worked with Eckerd Corporation, serving first as a regional loss prevention manager before becoming the director of loss prevention operations. For nearly 20 years, this expert has served as the president of his risk analysis and security management consulting firm in Texas.

This retail security professional joined Walmart in 1980 and held increasingly senior loss prevention and security positions until leaving the company in 2016. Most recently, he was the Senior Director of Global Security Services, in charge of managing safety and security of 20,000 employees and 250,000 customers at U.S. locations. The expert is a member of the American Society of Industrial Security's Retail Loss Prevention Council and is an ASIS Certified Protection Professional. Currently, he runs his own retail security consulting business. He earned his B.S. in Criminal Justice from Missouri Southern State University.