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I offer engineering consulting and expert services throughout the United States in hydrology, hydraulics, water resources, environmental, public lands, and all water related engineering fields. I am a Ph.D. level professional engineer/water expert with 30 years of practical experience in consulting engineering and government. I am known for my technical excellence and skill in analyzing and solving water and environmental engineering problems. I also hold a J.D. degree in law and an Environmental and Natural Resources law certificate. My interest and knowledge in law complements and has fueled my interest in expert witness work. I have served as an expert witness for major  flooding and reservoir operations cases in Mississippi and Alabama; a major flooding and sediment damage case in California, canal drowning and injury cases in Florida, Louisiana, and Utah; storm water drainage damage cases in West Virginia and Idaho; and water rights cases in Utah. I am looking forward to helping you with your expert consulting engineering needs.


Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering (water resources emphasis), 1996,
        Utah State University, Logan, UT
M.S. Civil Engineering (water resources emphasis), 1980, Utah State University,
         Logan, UT
B.S. Watershed Science, 1978, Utah State University College of Natural Resources,
         Logan, UT
Registered Professional Engineer (Utah, 1984, #166380; Alabama, 2006, #28152-E)

30 years experience in civil/water engineering and natural resources in private consulting and government

  • 30 years consulting engineering throughout the United States including 10 years expert witness experience and ten years with a large international engineering firm - projects completed in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, West Virginia and all 17 western states.
  • 5 years experience as staff engineer for the largest water supply district in Utah including operations, inspections, design, and construction of pipelines, canals, tunnels, dams, and reservoirs
  • 3 summers with the U.S. Forest Service as a hydrologic aid including water quality sampling, streamflow measurement, and monitoring and erosion control.


Attorney at Law, Utah State Bar No. 8530, U.S. District Court of Utah, since 1999;
         Washington State Bar No. 37345, U.S. District Court Eastern District of
         Washington, since 2006; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, since
         2008.
J.D. of Law with Environmental and Natural Resources Law Certificate, 1999,
         University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT


U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Workshops

  • Water Systems Management Workshop
  • Dam Tenders Workshop

Utah State University, Pipe Network Analysis Workshop (1 week).


Recent work includes expert witness investigations in flooding, reservoir operations, stream sedimentation, deposition, and transport, and canal safety designs. Expert witness in a major hurricane flooding case. Extensive experience in storm hydrology, hydraulics, flood evaluations, and storm drainage systems analysis and design, water resource and environmental regulations, dam and spillway design/operations, hydrology and hydrologic modeling, water rights, river basin management, and designing, constructing, and operating water supply and drainage systems including pipelines, canals, diversions, storage reservoirs, and pumping stations.

Engineering projects include hurricane flood analysis, flooding and flood plain analyses, storm drainage master planning, hydrologic and river basin modeling, storm drain design, detention basin design, FEMA floodplain studies and mapping, water rights evaluations and hydrographic surveys, water quality evaluations and analyses, and municipal water supply planning. Supervised design, construction, and operation of canals, pipelines, pump stations, diversion structures, sediment removal ponds, and mechanical screening equipment. Performed dam safety inspections and completed probable maximum flood hydrology studies and spillway designs for more than 10 small dams.

Participated in an interagency team for determining in-stream fishery flow requirements. Reviewed and made comments on interagency team findings for required endangered species in-stream flows and for blue ribbon trout fishery in-stream flows including comments on study assumptions, findings, and recommendations. Reviewed and provided comments on environmental impact statements.

Extensively researched federal laws governing U.S. Bureau of Reclamation water supply/repayment contracts and water rights. Evaluated rights and interests of water users in numerous Reclamation project water repayment contracts.

A list of specific projects and a list of my publications are available upon request.