Certified Registered Professional Electrical and Safety Engineer; CA, D.C., MA, KS, AK. Registered Environmental Assessor. Expertise in Construction and Electrical Safety, Design and Construction, Electrocution, Electric Shock, Lighting/ Illumination, OSHA Codes and Standards, General Safety, Environmental Assessments/Impact, Product Liability, Construction Malpractice, Failure Analysis, Safety Inspection/Procedure, Lightning, Accident Reconstruction, Workplace/Industrial Safety, Human Factors, Ergonomics, Underground and Overhead Electrical Distribution, Electrical Fires.

January 1995 to Date

Consulting Engineer

September 1962 to January 1995

California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Facility Engineering, Planning Manager,
Electrical, Safety and Environmental Protection Engineer.

Facility planning for a worldwide network of Deep Space Tracking Stations as part of the United States National Space Program. Manager of an Electrical Facility Safety and Environmental Protection Program for compliance with existing local, state and federal safety and environmental protection codes.

Planning includes early review of facility modifications necessitated by evolutional change in spacecraft tracking. Such planning was to ensure that applicable safety requirements are specifically defined and included in early criteria considerations through actual design, construction, and formal acceptance for operations. Responsibility also included safety awareness in conjunction with tracking station operations.

Responsible for facility functional operational requirements, safety systems studies, planning, design and test for a worldwide network of Deep Space Tracking Stations. Systems safety studies included collecting user's operational and program requirements and collating same with the architectural and the multiple engineering disciplines for safety, construction methodology and operating procedures. Early criteria considerations of architectural and engineering disciplines were incorporated to provide guidance pertaining to compliance with OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) regulations, local city, county and state safety and environmental protection standards and codes.

As Facility Planning Manager, provided expert advice, information and counsel to architects and multi engineering project engineers relative to applicable electrical safety and environmental protection requirements.

Maintained an on-going awareness to ensure that electrical safety and environmental protection criteria was incorporated in final engineering design and specifications.

Periodically conducted field surveys (on a non-scheduled basis) for the purpose of reviewing construction materials and methodology for compliance with safety to construction personnel during construction. Provided electrical and safety consultant information to various construction trades concerning required safety procedures.

Safety Engineering analysis duties included investigation of accidents resulting in a disabling injury and determined contributing circumstances. Near accidents were investigated for contributing circumstances.

Education, instruction and training, to minimize human factors that might contribute to accidents.

Study of tracking station operating methods and practices for performance and compliance with required electrical safety and environmental protection procedures. Study of personnel working areas to detect, eliminate and control physical and environmental hazards that might contribute to accidents.

Investigations were conducted to determine the cause of accidents and for the purpose of preventing similar accidents. Determine accident facts bearing on legal liability.

Analysis of accident costs for the purpose of providing management with information for safety and environmental protection recommendations and decisions. Cost estimates included cost of wages paid for time lost by workers who were injured and also not injured, and whose performance of work was affected. Cost of damage to material or equipment, extra cost of overtime work necessitated by the accident, cost of wages paid supervisors for time required for activities necessitated by the accident, wage cost caused by decreased output of injured worker after return to work, cost of learning period of new worker, uninsured medical cost borne by the company and the cost of time spent by higher supervision and clerical workers.

March 1961 - September 1962

Koebig & Koebig, Engineers & Architects, Los Angeles, California. Project Electrical Engineer.

Project Coordinating engineer for planning, design and construction of new Central Technical Facilities Plant at the National Reactor Test Site, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Compiled occupancy requirements and provided electrical engineering layout planning for equipment and system design configurations.

Project Engineer for converting former army base (Camp Cooke, CA) into an USAF Missile and Space Division Base (Vandenberg AFB). Modifications provided research and development facilities, systems check-out plants and pads, diesel engine-generating emergency power systems and site power distribution systems, also mission launch complexes, power systems design and construction supervision and inspection. Performed electrical design for new facilities and major modifications of existing facilities including construction specifications, inspection review of shop drawings and final acceptance tests.

October 1960 - March 1961

Frumhoff & Cohen, Electrical Engineers, Los Angeles, California.
Senior Electrical Engineer.

Responsible for facility planning, design, and equipment arrangement and layout for an exotic fuel hazard assembly area and storage facility (Thiokol - Minuteman, Brigham City, Utah). Duties also included actual design, cost control, specifications, construction supervision and incorporating client equipment change modification orders. Plans for future expansion were incorporated in original equipment design and systems layout.

October 1956 - October 1960

Periera & Luckman, (Charles Luckman Assoc.), Los Angeles, California. Chief Electrical Engineer.

Electrical Engineering Department head responsible for 16 man group including engineers, designers, draftsman, and electrical construction supervisors.

Responsible for the following projects: General Dynamics-Convair Astronautics, ICBM "Atlas" Facility, San Diego, CA, R&D, Engineering and Missile Manufacturing-Assembly Plant, Ford Motors "Aeronautics" Newport Beach, CA, Research and Development Facility, Northrop Aviation "Nortronics," Palos Verdes, CA, Research and Development Facility.

Duties included facilities planning and arrangements of R&D manufacturing areas to most economically permit flexibility in project changes and modifications to R&D systems, municipal airport planning and electrical design of industrial aircraft hanger maintenance facilities. Duties also included electrical engineering design construction specifications, cost control, constructing inspection and final acceptance tests.

May 1954 - October 1956

Victor Gruen & Assoc., Los Angeles, California. Chief Electrical Engineer.

Responsible for supervising Electrical Engineering Department. Also design planing engineer for large regional shopping centers, multistory office buildings, large bowling alley-social centers and master planning for new city and urban developments. Duties included electrical engineering systems design, construction specifications, cost control, construction inspection and final acceptance tests.

January 1954 - May 1954

Welton Becket & Assoc., Beverly Hills, California. Electrical Engineer.

Responsible for design of large industrial plant (Hallmark Cards, Kansas City). Duties included electrical engineering systems design and construction specifications.

August 1953 - January 1954

California State Div. of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. Electrical Engineer.

Responsible for electrical design of new California State Department of Employment buildings, and modifications of Camarillo State Hospital. Duties included electrical engineering systems design and construction specifications.

1953

Retired Regular Army Captain, Infantry

1943 - 1953

U.S. Army.

September 1948 - December 1949

U.S. Army, 24th Infantry, Honshu, Japan. Electrical Engineer.

Head of Post Engineer Electrical Engineering Department responsible for design restoration of Japanese electrical service facilities equivalent to area of three states. Design included new facilities and rehabilitation of existing power generation, distribution, and substations. Duties included acceptance system test after construction.

January 1947 - December 1947

U.S. Air Force, Tachikawa, Japan. Air Base Area Electrical Engineer.

Responsible for design and construction supervision of USAF Japan Air Material Command Maintenance Hangers and Aircraft Service Facilities.

September 1945 - December 1946

U.S. Army, 27th Infantry, Honshu, Japan. Post Electrical Engineer.

Responsible for planning, design and construction for conversion of former Japanese airfield into U.S. Army military camp for 5,500 military personnel and 200 civilian dependent home community village. Duties included pre-construction field surveys, design upgrading of existing electrical utilities and new electrical systems.

October 1943 - September 1944

Army Electronics Training Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Electrical Engineer.

Design engineer responsible for electrical and electronic test laboratory facility. Provided staff instructor with mock-up test conditions required for signal research and development laboratories.

1943

MIT, Massachusetts, graduate credit in Electrical Engineering.

February 1943 - July 1943

National City Electric Service, Middle Village, L.I., New York.
Electrical Field Technician and Designer.
Responsible for contract maintenance of electrical systems, large industrial and commercial buildings. Also responsible for electrical design for field facility modifications, construction inspection and acceptance test.

1939 - 1943

Pratt Institute, New York, B.E.E., Bachelors of Electrical Engineering.

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Safety Engineers.
Association of Energy Engineers, Certified Energy Manager. 
California Society of Professional Engineers.
International Association of Electrical Inspectors
National Fire Protection Association.
National Society of Professional Engineers.
Registered Electrical Engineer in Alaska, #E0695.
Registered Electrical Engineer in California, #E-9003.
Registered Environmental Assessor, California, #REA-00078.
Registered Professional Engineer in Kansas, #P.E. 3897.
Registered Professional Engineer in Massachusetts, #P.E. 9645.
Registered Professional Engineer in Washington, D.C., #P.E. 4319E.
Registered Safety Engineer in California, #SF-1086.
Senior Life Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). 

                                INDEX  OF  EXPERTISE

Accident Investigation/Reconstruction & Photographic/video analysis.
Accident Prevention
ADA (American Disabilities Act) Accessibility
Appliance Product Liability
Asbestos Exposure & Remediation
Automotive Fires
Building Codes, Standards, Construction & Inspections
Cogeneration Plants
Condominiums
Confined Spaces
Construction Accident Investigation, Site Security, Safety Codes & Standards
Consumer Products Liability, Safety, Testing & Warnings
Electrical - Accident, Investigation, Reconstruction, Analysis, Appliances, Codes, Standards & Construction
Electrical Engineering - Systems, Design, Fires, Explosions, Hazards, Heaters, Machinery & Equipment
Electrical Safety - Shock, Systems, Wiring
Electrocution
Emergency Lighting
Employee Safety
Energy - Codes, Conservation, Development, Economics, Management & Systems
Environmental-Assessments, Codes, Standards & Compliance
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safety & Site Assessments
Facility Safety & Environmental Audits
Failure To Warn
Falls
Fire Safety
Health Safety
Industrial Safety
Life Safety Codes
Lighting Design, Equipment & Safety
Lighting/Illumination
Lightning Protection
Machine Accident Investigation & Construction
Machine Guards, Hazards & Safety
Maintenance Engineering
Manholes - Electrical and Cummunication
Manufacturing - Facilities & Safety
Mechanical - Product Liability & Safety
Noise Control, Impact & Measurement
Occupational Health & Safety Act (OSHA) Compliance
Parking - Lots, Garages & Lighting
Power Distribution - Failures, Lines, Plants & Systems
Product Liability
Project Engineering
Risk Assessment
Safety Engineering - Analysis, Codes, Standards, Controls, Equipment, & Hazards
Scaffolds
Site Development, Shopping Centers, School Facilities & Safety
Street Lighting
System Engineering & Safety
Underwriters Laboratory (UL) Certified Systems
Underground and overhead Power Lines
Utilities
Warehouse Safety