PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Life Member

Florida Engineering Society

Past President, Big Bend Chapter, 1985-1986

Big Bend Chapter Engineer of the Year, 1997

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS: (partial list)

EPA course – “Orientation to Indoor Air Quality

ASHRAE - 1996 Winter Meeting Seminars

ASHRAE - 1996 Annual Meeting Seminars

Florida DOE - Uniform Building Code Inspector 1997

Leon County Schools - AutoCAD 14, 1999

ASHRAE - 2000 Winter Meeting Seminars

CARREER RELATED SKILLS:

AutoCAD 2005 drafting

Novell network management

Power user of Lotus, Excel, Word, WordPerfect, Paradox etc.

CAREER SUMMARY:

Senior Engineer with Pan American Airways from 1960 - 1962. Developed maintenance procedures, design mods, and reliability improvements for A/C and pressurization systems of jet passenger aircraft then entering service.

Senior Engineer through Assistant Project Engineer with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Florida Research and Development Center, period 1962 - 1976. Developed computer simulations and performance criteria for advanced jet engine and rocket propulsion systems.

Project Engineer with Wayne H. Coloney Company, Tallahassee, period 1976 - 1979. Responsible for development, testing, and production startup of ammunition loader for A10 aircraft.

Consulting Engineer (business owner), mechanical, plumbing, air conditioning, and fire protection systems for buildings, period 1979 - 1990.

Representative Projects successfully completed:

Renovation of Dodd Hall, Florida State University, 1990

Deer Lake Middle School, Leon County Schools, 1990

Carleton Building HVAC Renovations, 1990

Forestry Administration Building Sprinkler System, 1989

LP Gas Distribution System, Cross City Work Camp, 1989

FAMU Demonstration School HVAC retrofit, 1989

Staff Mechanical Engineer, Leon County School Board, Tallahassee, 1990 to 1998. Conceptual planning of new and renovated HVAC plants, oversight of consulting engineers during design, co-ordination of construction, advice and oversight of energy conservation program. Representative projects:

Indoor Air Quality Investigations, Remediation

Lincoln High School 700 ton chiller plant renovation

Godby High School 600 ton chiller plant renovation

Expansion and renovation of 800 ton Lively Vocational School Plant

Renovations to six schools, resulting in reduction of two MW of electric demand. New Northeast High School. Defined configuration. Provided design guidance to Consulting Engineers.

Florida Department of Corrections, Professional Engineer II, 1998 to June 30, 2003. Responsible for mechanical systems in statewide prison system.

Indoor Air Quality Investigations, Remedial Design.

Design and Consultant Oversight of Geothermal air conditioning and dehumidification systems.

Administration and oversight of Performance contract covering 16 major institutions.

Small Projects Design: Fume ventilation systems, filtration systems, special confinement environmental systems.

Retired from Corrections June 30, 2003. Continue to work and maintain skills designing and consulting on small commercial and industrial HVAC projects.

EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY and FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS

Courtroom Testimony:

2002 Expert Witness for the defendant in Chandler et al vs James Crosby [Secretary of Florida Department of Corrections] – plaintiffs alleged that cell block temperatures were too hot and a hazard to health. Investigation, affidavit, deposition, and court testimony. Court found for defendant.

Other forensic investigations:

During the 80’s and 90’s I did forensic engineering investigations and depositions for a number of accidents, some of which are below . The records of this have not been retained, so the following is from my memory:

1. Audi drag link failure – report to insurance company

2. Flat bed semi brake investigation as related to a head-on collision – report to insurance company

3. Cause of accident where victim fell from a “flying form” during construction of a major Savannah River dam. Deposition to defendant legal team.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

2002 Pioneered installation and use of direct digital control systems for all new Florida prisons, and many renovated prisons in the State. These systems were essential elements in the success of the dehumidification systems being installed in new prison dormitory buildings.

2002 Successfully remediated major moisture and mold problems in a prison health services building, as well as several multi-use staff and inmate services buildings. Initiated design methods to avoid such problems in future designs.

2001 Guided the Department of Corrections through a transition from fuel oil heating, hot water and process systems to natural gas in most of the 57 major prisons in the state. Eliminated steam in favor of hot water systems in most areas.

2000 Directed development of prison dehumidification systems based on ground source heat pumps with reheat by recycling compressor cooling water. These systems permitted elimination of operable windows and ventilation dampers, a major source of maintenance problems, and allow maintaining positive pressure in the building, thus reducing moisture and mildew problems.

1998 Concept, direction, and oversight of mechanical design and construction of a new 200,000 sf high school. Features are a diversified central chiller/boiler plant with dispersed packaged air cooled chillers totaling 600 tons. Energy efficiency is assured using dedicated outdoor air units that inject neutral air into the returns of space cooling units.

1995 Directed the design and exercised oversight over the mechanical systems of a 90,000 sf elementary school. System consists of water source heat pumps with source water conditioned by a cooling tower/boiler plant. The natural efficiency of the water source system was enhanced by using an open cooling tower with heat exchanger, which uses significantly less fan energy than a closed tower. This school is our third most energy efficient in the District.

1991 As owner's representative directed the design and construction of a new, modern 800 ton chiller plant at Lively Vocational Technical School. By my direction, this plant incorporates primary-secondary pumping of a four chiller system, with variable speed secondary pumps. One new 400 ton chiller uses R134a and has a full load efficiency of better than .63 KW/ton. An Alerton DDC control system communicates directly with the chiller microprocessor and operates the entire plant. Under a Federal NECPA [energy] grant, the control system will be extended to the entire campus and another high efficiency chiller will replace the remaining 400 tons of capacity which is now provided by twenty year old reciprocating chillers.

Another facet of this project was a reduction of demand by 700 KW. This was accomplished by replacing a 450 KW electric boiler with a gas fired boiler, and replacing eight 30 KW electric heating coils with hydronic heat. This change alone will reduce winter electric bills by $25,000 yearly.

1989 As a consulting mechanical engineer, I personally designed a sprinkler system as a retrofit to the Doyle E. Conner Forestry Building in Tallahassee. This is a three story building of 58,000 square feet with a museum in the basement. The museum was provided with a dry-pipe system. The bid price came in at less than $2.50/square foot, and this included more than 500 feet of outdoor fire line to the building. My design included complete working drawings and hydraulic calculations per NFPA 13 and 24, and was reviewed and approved by the State Fire Marshal's office. The installation was accomplished in an operating building full of people, without dirtying a single ceiling tile or causing a single lost work day.

1988 Designed a full heat recovery 100% outdoor air heat recovery system for the FSU baseball locker room. This system uses a small 10 ton heat pump to condition a 3000 square foot locker room with outdoor air. Enthalpy exchange is provided with a carefully specified enthalpy wheel operating between the air handler blower and an exhaust blower.

1984 Engineered two 7.5 MW wood fired generating plants. Performed the initial heat balance and efficiency studies, designed the cooling water system, and provided performance analysis instructions to the operators after the plants were in operation.

1978 Project engineer for design, development, and testing of the ammunition loading machine for the A-10 ground support aircraft. I joined the Coloney Company team in 1976 and played a key role in the successful competition with Emerson Electric for the Air Force Contract. My role was technical direction of detail design and development of concepts formed by Dr. Charles Benedict. The successful operation of this loader enabled the A-10 to fly numerous missions in Desert Storm.

1970 Directed the development of a detailed computer simulation of the Pratt and Whitney space shuttle rocket engine. This was the RL-20, a high pressure liquid hydrogen - liquid oxygen rocket engine with fuel-rich preburner, regeneratively cooled nozzle, and articulating skirt. The competing concept was a toroidal chamber plug nozzle by Rocketdyne. Although Rocketdyne won the competition, the toroidal concept ultimately failed and Rocketdyne built a high pressure engine for the space shuttle.

1962 As maintenance engineer for Pan American Airways, I revised the method of control of the Boeing 707 cabin pressurization system to eliminate "surges" of cabin pressure. The change involved giving manual control of one of the three dump valves to the flight engineer, while leaving the other two under automatic control. This solved the surge problem.

VITAL STATISTICS:

Born in Warren, Ohio on October 23, 1936

Moved to Tallahassee, Florida in 1946

Graduated from Leon High School, Tallahassee, in 1954

Georgia Tech Cooperative Program with Pan Am (Miami) 1954 – 1959

Married 1963, two grown daughters, four grandchildren

US Army critical skill program, active duty May-August 1961, Ready Reserve to 1969

Activities: fishing, sailing, hiking, camping, reading, computer programming

Interests: engineering, paleontology, history, geology, cosmology, astronomy, physics

Expansion and renovation of 800 ton Lively Vocational School Plant

EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY and FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS

Born in Warren, Ohio on October 23, 1936

Moved to Tallahassee, Florida in 1946

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