Solid Waste Management Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 35 years of experience in construction engineering. His research includes construction claims, construction safety, alternative energy technology, and waste disposal technology. He has served as Principal Engineer for various companies and, subsequently, legal counsel after receiving his J.D. In addition to serving as President of a consulting engineering company, he currently serves as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Director of Construction Management for a university.

This expert has over 10 years of professional experience in OSHA & MSHA advisory services, specifically as it relates to hazardous materials management, oil & gas rig safety, environmental engineering, and fire safety. He earned a Master of Occupational Safety & Health/Environmental Management from Columbia Southern University and a PhD in Safety Sciences from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Safety Professional through Board of Certified Safety Professionals and teaches field safety protocols for the NCCER Core curriculum. This expert is currently a professor of safety management & environmental/fire protection engineering at a Texas based university and a principal consultant providing OSHA & MSHA advisory services.

This expert has extensive experience with managing day to day operations and safety protocols on large, complex projects for the past 20 years. He has extensive certifications in haz-mat operations and emergency response, specifically as it relates to OSHA compliance. He is a member of the AGC Safety Committee, the National Association of Safety Professionals, and the National Fire Prevention Association. His expert witness experience focuses on construction flaws and OSHA safety violations.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in the waste management and recycling industry. He has worked in both the public and private sectors in a variety of roles, from General Manager to technical expert. He is certified by both the Solid Waste Association of North America and the California Resource Recovery Association, while he is a Board Member of the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania. Currently, this expert is the President of a solid waste consulting firm, wherein he assists state, county, and city clients across America as a collection systems and equipment specialist. He serves as an independently contracted Project Manager, training and supervising staff and conducting collection efficiency evaluations and solid waste strategic planning, and waste audits among other services.

This expert has thirty plus years of environmental and water resource engineering experience throughout the Americas. Exceptional skills in several water resource and environmental specialties including surface-water and groundwater hydrology, hydrogeologic characterization, surface-water/groundwater interaction, contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface and aquatic environment (special emphasis on PCBs, petroleum compounds, industrial chemicals, and mining-related contamination), limnology, water quality, aquatic ecology, aquatic organism passage. Served as an expert witness for varied cases since 1989. Proficiently team with legal professionals to achieve goals.

This expert is highly fluent in environmental compliance strategies that take into account state and federal environmental regulations and guidances, and the principles of sound engineering practices. His regulatory expertise includes the regulation and enforcement of hazardous waste, superfund and toxic substance laws and UIC regulations. This expert worked in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 31 years and was EPA's RCRA national hazardous waste expert and one of a few who was also a RCRA and Superfund Remedial Project Manager (RPM). Because of his extensive knowledge, he testified as a government witness in federal court proceedings and inspected and evaluated the largest, most difficult hazardous waste sites involving complicated toxicology and environmental site conditions. He directed the Regional RCRA inspection team and personally evaluated industrial sites, including refineries, oil and gas production and treatment facilities, metal refiners, power plants, and waste disposal sites across the Region to determine their compliance with environmental laws. A registered PE and board-certified environmental engineer, this expert helped the EPA develop policies and rules regarding regulatory compliance, risk assessment, site remediation, and worker health issues at waste disposal sites, hospitals, refineries, oil and gas production and power plants. Since retiring from EPA, this expert has had numerous expert witness engagements where he has written several expert reports and participated in various court proceedings.

This qualified Fluid Flow Engineering Expert obtained his BSE in Civil Engineering and his MSE and Ph.D in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. He is a Certified Engineer in Utah and has published 40+ articles focused on Civil and Environmental Engineering research. He is a member of the American Water Works Association and the American Society of Engineers and is currently a Research Professor in Civil and Environmental at a University in the West, a Civil and Environmental Engineer at a Water Research Laboratory, and a Consultant at a Private Consulting Firm. Expert has provided testimony and technical reports as well as external review of technical reports and analysis.

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 highly qualified expert has over fifteen years of experience researching, teaching and consulting in the transportation industry. He earned his Bachelors of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, his MS and PhD in transportation systems and civil engineering from the University of Illinois and The University of Texas at Austin, respectively. This expert is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Transportation Research Board where he also serves on multiple committees. He has been published over 150 times in peer-reviewed journal articles and presented extensively in his field. Formerly he has served as a visiting professor in the department of civil engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and as a visiting distinguished professor at the School of Transportation Engineering at Tongji University. He is currently a full professor for a school of engineering at a major IN research university.

This highly qualified expert has 30 years of experience in environmental and geotechnical engineering. He received his BS in civil engineering from Lehigh University before earning both his MS and PhD in civil engineering, geotechnical/geoenvironmental from the University of Texas. He is currently a certified environmental engineer and a licensed professional engineer. This expert is active in his field as a member of numerous associations, including the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the International Geosynthetics Society. He is highly involved in his field, having authored hundreds of research publications throughout his career. For his work, he has received numerous awards. He has formerly served as the chair of civil and environmental engineering at both the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin, the director of the Wisconsin geotechnics laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, and a professor of geological, civil, and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Currently, this expert is the dean of the school of engineering and applied science at a well-known university in Virginia.

This qualified expert earned his BS and MS in environmental engineering, as well as his MS in civil engineering from Drexel University, graduating cum laude. He subsequently earned his PhD in environmental engineering. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the Water Environmental Federation and the American Water Works Association. He has worked closely with many municipalities including the Philadelphia Water Department, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Park and Recreations, and the Boston Water Sewer Commission. His former positions include being a research associate for Drexel University and an engineering consultant for Mott MacDonald. Currently, this expert is a client service manager for a water/wastewater company in Arizona.

This highly-qualified environmental engineer is a recognized expert in air quality analysis, human health exposure, and risk assessment. He earned a BS in biochemistry from The College of Saint Rose followed by an MS in chemistry and a PhD in environmental science and engineering from Clarkson University. He is an elected member of several national committees, including serving as treasurer of the International Society for Exposure Science, on the board of directors for the Air & Waste Management Association, and as an expert panelist for the US EPA Air Quality Monitoring in Communities committee. He has formerly served as a staff scientist and principal investigator at the Health Effects Institute (HEI) and as a senior environmental toxicologist and environmental compliance manager for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is currently the founder, chairman, and CEO for an air quality and human health exposure consultancy.

This expert has over 50 years of experience in the recycling, demolition, and auction industries. He is active in his field as a member of the Copper Club and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. He began his career as an assistant foreman with Diversified Metals Corporation, the largest non-ferrous trading and processing company. He has formerly served as the president of Diversified Metals Corporation, the founder of Ken Fischer & Associates, and a partner of NISI Auction Company. Currently, this expert is the founder and president of an auctioneering business development, sales, and marketing consultancy in California.

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 more than 30 years of experience in the field of industrial hygiene. He earned his BA in chemistry from Macalester College before earning an MS in food science, an MPH in environmental health, and a PhD in environmental health all at the University of Minnesota. He is a certified industrial hygienist in comprehensive practice and chemical aspects. He formerly served as hazardous waste manager at the University of Minnesota and as a research associate - analytical laboratory supervisor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He then went on to work as a staff scientist at Hazleton Laboratories of America, as director of industrial hygiene at Northland Environmental Services, and finally as a professor of industrial hygiene and environmental chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He currently serves as a senior consultant in industrial hygiene at a consultancy in WI.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in environmental engineering. He obtained his BS in physics and chemistry from Nagpur University, his MS in chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Sciences, and his second MS in environmental engineering from Malviya National Institute of Technology in India, before moving to the United States, where he obtained his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Toledo. Today, he is certified in compound inspection, hazardous waste stream determination, and environmental resources and environmental inspection. This expert is also a licensed air quality and indoor air quality engineer and an active member of the Air and Waste Management Association, the Internal Congress of Chemistry and Environment, the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Moreover, he is very active in academia, having published and researched on topics related to environmental engineering and having developed two patents pertaining to engine exhaust. This expert previously served as an adjunct physics faculty member at Baker College, as the senior chemist and bacteriologist for the City of Toledo, as a post-doctoral research associate of wastewater treatment at Baylor University, and as a wastewater, statics, hydrology, and water resources engineering faculty member at the University of Toledo. He is currently an environmental inspector for the Department of Environmental Protection in West Virginia.

This chemical engineering expert earned a chemical engineering degree from the Universidad de Matanzas in Cuba and specializes in proposal writing and commercial agreement negotiations, process engineering, project engineering, project management, plant operation, and environmental engineering. He is active in his field as a member of several engineering associations, as a translator of numerous scientific papers from Spanish to English, as well as engineering specifications and standards, work procedures, project instruction and other engineering and technical documents, and as a Spanish-English interpreter in scientific conferences and events as well as engineering meetings in Cuba, Italy, Spain and Canada. He has formerly served as a senior area project engineer for Worley Parsons UAE, a project engineer for IMV Projects, a senior project engineer for Projex, and an engineer manager for TR Canada. Currently, this expert is the owner of an engineering firm based in Calgary, Alberta.