EXPERIENCE

• 15 years of experience, education, and training in the transportation industry. Positions held include Accident Reconstruction Specialist, Safety training Risk Manager, Safety and Training Director, Safety and Transportation Consultant, Resource Specialist, and Education and Training Specialist.
• Tractor-trailer driver for cross-country, regional, and local services.
• Tractor-trailer in freight, moving, construction, flatbed, and specialty heavy-haul industries.
• Tractor-trailer driver trainer for nationwide freight hauler.
• Tractor-trailer instructor and Resource Specialist for nationwide driver training school. Positions and responsibilities: Instructor; Assistant Director of Training; Resource Specialist; author of homestudy, resident training, and hazardous materials training courses.
• Safety and Training Director, and Safety and Training Risk Manager for national specialized rigging and heavy-haul company. Responsibilities: Industry consultant for CDL program; worked with Utah DMV on implementation of CDL program as Industry Specialist.
• Safety consultant for transportation industry.
• Driver training for trucking companies -- safety meetings, defensive driving, in-cab training, forklift and warehousing, air brake training.
• Author and content editor for truck driving homestudy, resident training, CDL courses, and operational videos.
• Qualified and provided testimony as Accident Reconstruction Specialist and Trucking Industry Safety Specialist in California Superior Civil Courts.
• Proficient in tractor-trailer accident reconstruction, investigation, and safety issues.

Abilities and work products arising from education, research, and experience include:

• Analyze reports, statements, photographs, and other evidence in order to reconstruct accidents
• Create accident reconstruction reports
• Develop after-accident situation maps and displays
• Design and implement safety programs and company safety analyses
• Conduct training seminars and workshops on safe practices and professional driving
• Conduct low-speed crash tests to determine evidence of impact