• Fast response
• Principal investigator leads team
• Clear communication throughout assignment
• Gather all relevant data
• Inspect, measure and photograph incident site ASAP
• Collect and preserve evidence
• Interview witnesses and persons most knowledgeable
• Follow-up engineering analyses
• Obtain exemplars
• Lab tests
• Literature review
• Reporting
• Trial exhibits and animation
  

• Relevant expertise and credentials
• Practicing engineer — not “professional expert”
• Knowledge of materials, process, and design
• Specific equipment experience and in-depth technology expertise
• Knowledge of legal/insurance industry
• Good listener and communicator
• Responsive to client requests
• Focused and practical
• Network within his field
  

Aptech Engineering Services, Inc.
(408) 745-7000

APTECH’s engineers have an average of over 25 years of experience in their technical specialties. Our professional staff members range from our senior staff members who serve as expert witnesses in depositions and trials, to our junior personnel who provide technical support. Our key people are described below.
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Satish Almaula
Vice President of the Forensic Engineering Group and consulting services in industrial processing, manufacturing and allied sectors across APTECH’s practice areas including litigation support services
(408) 636-5402

Kimble Clark, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineer — Heat transfer, fluid mechanics, combustion, complex fires and explosions
(408) 636-5410

Richard Schreiber, P.E.
Mechanical Engineer — Boiler and machinery failure analysis, residential and commercial appliances, fire and explosion origin/cause, combustion emissions
(408) 636-5334
  

Eric Sullivan, P.E.
Metallurgical Engineer — Metallurgy, welding, failure analysis, fire and explosion investigation
(805) 563-0477
  

Philip Lindsay, P.E.
Metallurgical Engineer — Metallurgy, corrosion engineering, water contamination, failure analysis
(408) 636-5386

Clayton Lee, P.E.
 Mechanical Engineer — Heat Transfer, fluid mechanics, finite element computer modeling
(408) 636-5375

Geoffrey Egan, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineer and President of APTECH — Engineering mechanics, metallurgy, welding, risk analysis
(408) 636-5300

David A. Bosko
Mechanical Engineer — Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Testing Systems
(408) 636-5363

Philip Besuner
Mechanical Reliability Engineer — Statistical analysis, probabalistic engineering analysis, fracture mechanics
(650) 941-8733 (California)

Michael Cronin, P.E.
Mechanical Engineer — Stress analysis, design evaluation, engineering mechanics, finite element computer modeling
(408) 636-5343

Rodney Dail
Metallurgical Engineer — Metallurgy, welding, mechanical testing, nondestructive examination
(301) 868-4899 (Maryland)

Robert J. Gialdini, P.E.
Mechanical Engineer — Mechanical Engineering, Stress Analysis
(408) 636-5376

Charles Greene, Ph.D.
Chemical Engineer — Petroleum and petrochemical refining, refinery startup, operation and maintenance
(707) 875-3334 (California)

G. Paul Grimsrud
Engineering Economist — Economic damages, electricity production costing, asset evaluation
(408) 636-5344

Jeffery Grover, P.E.
Civil and Mechanical Engineer -- Structural Losses and Collapses, Blast Effects, Building Code Compliance, Certified Welding Inspector
(408) 636-5354

Steve Kohan, Ph.D.
Chemical Engineer — Refinery Processes, catalysis, plant testing, fluid mechanics, risk analysis
(408) 636-5356

Steve Lefton
Chemical Engineer — Fossil and nuclear utility power generation, construction, start-up, operation and maintenance, economics
(408) 636-5302

Steven Torbov
Mechanical Engineer — Combustion, fuel science, burner and boiler design
(408) 636-5394

Phillip Wheeler, P.E.
Electrical Engineer — Electrical power systems, design, construction, operation and maintenance practices
(949) 766-4820 (California)