Founder & Principal

For more than three decades, our Founder and Principal has helped infrastructure owners understand what their structures are telling them—and what actions to take next.

As Founder and Principal of Benchmark SHM, he provides independent consulting and advisory services to bridge owners, transportation agencies, engineering firms, and infrastructure operators seeking practical answers to complex structural health monitoring challenges. His focus is simple: helping owners make better decisions before committing to technologies, vendors, monitoring programs, and long-term contracts.

Unlike many consultants who specialize in reports or vendors who specialize in products, he has spent his career working across the entire lifecycle of structural monitoring systems—from technology development and manufacturing to field deployment, data interpretation, contract execution, and long-term operations.

Over a 33-year career, he has directed and supported monitoring programs on some of North America’s most significant transportation assets, including the George Washington Bridge, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Roosevelt Bridge, Honolulu HART Rail System, Woodrow Wilson Bridge, Ben Franklin Bridge, Pulaski Skyway, Anthony Wayne Bridge, and numerous DOT-owned structures throughout the United States and Canada.

His experience spans structural health monitoring, acoustic emission testing, fiber optic sensing, nondestructive evaluation, instrumentation, product development, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and long-term monitoring operations. He has worked directly with transportation agencies, engineers of record, contractors, universities, FHWA, NASA, Boeing, and major engineering firms to develop monitoring programs that support real-world infrastructure decisions.

Today, his role is less about selling technology and more about helping owners understand where monitoring creates value—and where it doesn’t. He works with clients to evaluate technologies, review vendor proposals, develop specifications, identify risks, and build monitoring programs that answer important questions rather than simply generate more data.

Every monitoring program should support a decision. Every sensor should have a purpose. Every dollar invested should reduce uncertainty and improve asset management outcomes.