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Expert is a practicing Professional Engineer, LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator, and consultant, with 35 years of experience in the responsible charge of planning, designing and constructing facilities for manufacturing, commercial, chemical and heavy industrial use. His experience as a design principal and project executive includes project development, facility siting and design, building/process design and construction, machine design, code compliance, high pressure piping and vessels, energy and utility systems, ventilation, air pollution control, HVAC, structural engineering, and bulk material handling. These activities have involved all phases of conceptual planning, design engineering and procurement, construction and erection, safety and OSHA compliance.

In addition to his direct engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) background, Expert also maintains expertise in complex systems and equipment failure analysis, accident reconstruction, process hazard and risk assessment, thermal and stress analysis, fire and explosion investigation and construction claims consulting. His investigations include boiler, piping and pressure vessel failures and explosions, machinery defects, HVAC defects, construction defects, structural failures and collapses, and equipment fires and explosions.

CODES AND STANDARDS EXPERIENCE:
 International Building Code (IBC)
 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC)
 International Mechanical Code (IMC)
 International Plumbing Code (IPC)
 International Fire Code (IFC)
 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC)
 ASHRAE 90.1 – Energy Standard for Buildings
 ASHRAE 62.1 – Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality
 ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 160 – Criteria for Moisture Control Design Analysis in Buildings
 ANSI/ISO 12100-1,2 – Safety of Machinery
 ANSI/ASSE Z244.1 – Control of Hazardous Energy, Lock-out/Tag-out
 ANSI B11 – General Safety Requirements Common to ANSI B11 Machines
 ANSI B11.19 – Performance Criteria for Safeguarding
 NFPA 10 – Portable Fire Extinguishers
 NFPA 13 – Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
 NFPA 17/17A – Dry/Wet Chemical Fire Protection Systems
 NFPA 30 – Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code
 NFPA 30A – Standard for Motor Fuel Dispensing Facilities
 NFPA 30B – Standard for the Storage of Aerosol Products
 NFPA 53 – Recommended Practice on Materials, Equipment, and Systems Used in Oxygen Enriched Atmospheres
 NFPA 54 – National Fuel Gas Code
 NFPA 55 – Compressed Gases/Cryogenic Fluids Code
 NFPA 68 – Guide for Deflagration Venting
 NFPA 70 – National Electric Code
 NFPA 79 – Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery
 NFPA 85 – Boilers and Combustion Systems Hazards Code
 NFPA 86 – Standard for Ovens and Furnaces
 NFPA 86C – Standard for Ovens and Furnaces/Special Processing Atmospheres
 NFPA 86D – Standard for Ovens and Furnaces/Vacuum Processing
 NFPA 91 – Standard for Exhaust Systems/Vapors, Gases, Mists, Particulates
 NFPA 654 – Standard for Fire/Dust Explosion Prevention From Particulate Solids
 NFPA 921 – Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations
 UL 1278 – Standard for Moveable and Wall-or-Ceiling-Hung Electric Room Heaters
 OSHA 1910/1926 – Industrial/Construction Safety Rules
 ASME Section I – Rules for the Construction of Power Boilers
 ASME Section VIII – Rules for the Construction of Pressure Vessels
 ASME B30.5 – Mobile and Locomotive Cranes
 ASME B31.1 – Pressure Piping Code
 ASME B31.3 – Process Piping Code
 ISO 4414 – Pneumatic Fluid Power
 API 570, API RP 574 – Refinery Piping Inspection
 API 941 – Steels for Hydrogen Service
 API 936 – Refractories
 ASSE A10 – Construction and Demolition Safety Standards
 Ohio School Design Manual