Expert Details
Landslides, Faults, Slope Movement, Dewatering
ID: 732504
California, USA
Expert has experience in the following:
Business strategy: Vision, direction, development, and marketing
Profit: Creating and maintaining
Management: Multiple offices and professionals 50 total staff members
Acquiring: Clients and projects
Motivation: Personnel, clients
Contract: Writing and Negotiations
Markets: Identification of profitable markets and market strategy
Budget: Development, and management
His expert witness and consulting work has included the following:
- Identification and problem solving for common and unusual engineering geologic problems such as landslides, slope creep, settlement, expansive soils,
fault activity, and many others
- Construction supervision of deep foundations, grading, slab on grade, dewatering, and instrumentation
- Conceptual geologic design of deep foundation systems including, drilled shear pins, caissons, tie backs, secant walls and grading for engineering geologic
problems
- Landslide investigation and repairs: Laguna Niguel, Big Rock Mesa, Sea View Estates, and more than 30 other destructive landslides and slope failures. See
attached list
- Large-scale air photo work / Historical research with topo maps
- Retrofit of foundations for historical adobe structures
- Dams and dam failures
- Infrastructure including water line, roads, and sewer lines
- Experience around heavy equipment, bulldozer, drill rigs, scrapers, hoes etc.
- Single-family custom hillside lots for grading/ Pre-purchase consulting
- Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, Power Point, and several Slope Stability programs
- Development of trial caliber exhibits and models
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2015 | Degree: BS | Subject: Geology | Institution: California State University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2003 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert has successfully competed against very large competitors to secure projects such as large-scale dewatering and landslide stability. He has used geomorphic techniques and air-photo interpretation to address landslide and land form issues. He has developed numerous single-family home sites, handled all aspects of business development, billing, budgets, and marketing. Experience also includes forensic investigation and expert witness testimony. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1983 to 2003 | Employer: American Geotechnical | Title: President | Department: Geology |
Responsibilities:Expert developed the business from a 2-person consulting firm to a corporation with 4 offices and over 50 employees. His responsibilities included administration, supervision, managing and training of all staff, annual performance reviews, business development, marketing strategy, public speaking, client management, quality control, budget control. He was also personally involved in the day-to-day practices of a geologist such as field mapping, down hole logging, structural analysis, and geomorphology, grading projects, forensic investigations and expert witness testimony. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1978 to 1982 | Employer: Eberhart Axten and Associates | Title: Project Manager / Branch Office Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert undertook large-scale grading projects, infrastructure projects, field mapping, site inspections, buttress, clean out and quantity removal verification, and preliminary investigations. Experience included site feasibility, logs, cross-sections, geologic maps, structure contour analysis other forms of geologic and structural analysis. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1978 to 1979 | Employer: Earth Research and Associates | Title: Project geologist | Department: |
Responsibilities:His experience included fieldwork, down hole and small diameter logging, technician supervision, preliminary investigations, site inspections during grading. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1976 to 1977 | Employer: Westland and Associates | Title: Filed Geologist | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert's duties included field technician work, laboratory work, and preliminary investigation of sites for development, and site review and inspection in grading. |
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Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has qualified to appear in court and given testimony more than 50 times. He has given more than 220 depositions. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| He has conducted 29 landslide projects. |