Expert Witnesses for Failure Analysis

Found 4 experts for Failure Analysis

  • Steven Paul
    Steven S. Paul is a highly qualified vehicle inspection and appraisal expert with over 25 years of experience in automotive service, heavy equipment maintenance, and forensic vehicle analysis. Specializing in Lemon Law, misrepresentation, cause of failure, and improper repairs, he has provided expert opinions in over 500 cases and is court-qualified in multiple state and federal jurisdictions. As Principal of TDT Vehicle Inspection Services, he performs comprehensive evaluations on exotic, luxury, collector, and commercial vehicles. Steven holds ASE Master Certification in Automotive & Heavy-Duty Trucks, NRVIA Level II RV Inspector, ASCAA Certified Vehicle Appraiser, NAAA Frame/Unibody Structural Inspector, I-CAR PL3 Structural Technician, and USPAP certification. He actively contributes to automotive education, professional associations, and technical program development.
  • Saeed Fararooy
    DR Saeed Fararooy PhD

    Los Angeles, CA

    Saeed Fararooy is a major in electrical, electronics, computer and telecommunications engineering with a PhD in Control and Instrumentation. Saeed has 35+ years expertise in automation and system/software safety assurance. He has led multi-disciplinary engineering teams in delivering infrastructure projects. Saeed has attended multiple court cases and litigation or depositions as an expert witness. His forensic and systemic approach allowed him to offer impartial and independent opinion whilst maintaining absolute integrity based on an ethical approach. Saeed has developed software for safety case management using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) and the Claim-Argument-Evidence methodology. This approach is also applicable to complex technical and legal challenges across many safety-critical transportation, energy, manufacturing market sectors.
  • Steve Roensch
    Steve Roensch M.S.

    Appleton, WI

    Steve Roensch has a robust background in engineering mechanics, physics and mathematics. He has 44 years of professional experience, has served as an expert witness on 90 cases for both defendant and plaintiff investigations, including 10 patent cases, and has testified 24 times. As an engineering consultant, he has worked on hundreds of mechanical designs and performed thousands of engineering analyses on a wide range of products, from medical devices to marine engines, rock crushers to aircraft, farm equipment to the International Space Station. Steve has taught engineering classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marquette University, IBM Research & Development, and at client locations. In addition to a very strong theoretical background, he is a hands-on engineer, and has performed maintenance and repairs on his own SUVs, boats and aircraft. Steve investigates product failures and accidents from a fundamental engineering perspective. He specializes in determining if the product design meets applicable standards and is sufficient to survive. He documents his efforts thoroughly from the start, for concise presentation to the legal team, other experts and the jury. For example, Steve has served as an expert witness on Utility Task Vehicle (UTV) and All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) cases involving component failures, rollovers and rollaways. These vehicles require special consideration of design, stability and modes of injury. He has also worked on many oilfield, transportation and consumer product cases. Steve is a certified private pilot and enjoys boating and fishing.
  • Adam Olshove
    Adam is a registered mechanical professional engineer with 15 years of experience providing consulting services to industry and the legal profession. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, both from the University of Michigan. He focused his studies on the modeling and control of dynamic systems. with a particular emphasis on battery modeling. His projects at Miller Engineering have focused on a wide range of consumer product design issues and industrial accidents. He has performed dozens of on-site investigations nationwide in relation to these projects, including failure analysis and testing. He has particular expertise in the areas of slip/trip/falls, battery failures and warnings, residential and commercial code compliance, product tip-overs, furniture failures, machine design, and electro-mechanical testing. Adam has also designed and evaluated warning labels for corporate clients, as well as developed instruction manuals for novel products. His past professional experiences include product development on the pressure sensor team at Caterpillar, Inc., and implementation of energy saving solutions at Rhetech, Inc., a plastic resin manufacturing company. As an undergraduate, he conducted research at the University of Michigan’s Composite Structures Lab under the supervision of the Aerospace Engineering Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas. Affiliations: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee F15 on Consumer Products; American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME); National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE); American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP)