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Expert in Fire Safety Engineering
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Expert has over thirty years experience administering, teaching, and assisting in the promulgation of National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) codes and standards. He is a very active member of NFPA, and has served on six NFPA technical committees, including chairmanship of two. As editor of NFPA's publication, "Fire Technology," he is informed on the latest technical developments influencing changes and generation of new codes and standards.
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Expert has over thirty years of experience as a fire protection engineer, studying, teaching, and applying principles of fire prevention, fire protection, and fire safety. As editor of NFPA's "Fire Technology," Expert is informed of the latest technical developments influencing procedures and practices of fire prevention, protection, and safety. As Director of the Expert's Firm, he is responsible for information, research, and education on all aspects of fire safety science and engineering. Expert is very active in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, having served on several committees. His work in this area includes authorship an article in the Expert Wiley Encyclopedia of Architecture and the production of a chapter in the NFPA "Industrial Fire Hazards Handbook."
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Expert has over thirty years experience administering, teaching, and assisting in the promulgation of fire safety codes and standards. He is active in code writing groups, including NFPA, ASTM, BOCA, and ICBO. As editor of NFPA's "Fire Technology," he is informed of the latest technical developments, influencing changes and generating new codes and standards. As Director of the Expert's Firm, he is responsible for information, research, and education on all aspects of fire safety science and engineering.
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Expert has been an industry leader in the development of methods of fire risk analysis. He is editor of a section in the SFPE "Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering," as well as author of several chapters in that section. He has also consulted, lectured, and written journal articles on the subject.
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Expert is Chairman of the NFPA Safety to Life Committee on Fundamentals, and serves on several other life safety committees. He is author of the definitive article on the subject.
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Expert is active in promoting and evaluating computer fire models. He was instrumental in developing ASTM criteria for fire models, and has authored a chapter in the NFPA "Fire Protection Handbook" on the subject.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Albany, New York;
and Schenectady, New York.
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1978
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PhD
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Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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University of Massachusetts
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1972
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MS
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Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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University of Massachusetts
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1966
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BS
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Fire Protection Engineering
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University of Maryland
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1981 to
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(Undisclosed)
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Director
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1973 to 1981
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University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor
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Associations/Societies
He is a full member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and sits on several of the Society's committees.
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Professional Appointments
He chairs ASTM Subcommittee E5.38 on Fire Standards Education and the NFPA Technical Committee on Life Safety Fundamentals.
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Publications and Patents Summary
Expert presently serves as the editor of "Fire Technology," the journal of fire protection research and engineering from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Publications include a significant article on fire safety in the Expert Wiley "Encyclopedia of Architecture," four chapters in the NFPA "Fire Protection Handbook," two chapters in the SFPE "Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering," and a chapter in the NFPA "Industrial Fire Hazards Handbook." He is also co-author of the forthcoming Expert Wiley text, "Evaluation of Fire Safety."
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Expert Wiley
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- National Fire Protection Association
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- Fire Protection Handbook, National Fire Protection Association
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- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
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1979 to 1980
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Scotland
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Expert was a visiting academic to the Department of Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.
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French
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Expert reads French.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience locating vendors of fire safety products, fire safety consultants, and fire testing services. He has access to buyers' guides, product directories, and professional contacts.
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