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Dr. John Bryant is the principal in charge of all engineering operations including forensic, geotechnical, geo-structural, and geophysical modeling and testing. Dr. Bryant coordinates the operations of the company with other affiliated technical experts when required. He has provided expert witness testimony in over 300 arbitrations and court cases over the past 25 years. Dr. Bryant’s expertise includes soil-structure interaction, geophysics, and hydrological modeling. Noteworthy projects include Millennium Tower, State Highway 130, and Allen Eagle Stadium.
Dr. Fitzgerald is an experienced strategic advisor and business operations leader with a diverse background in research, teaching, consulting, and business management. Dr. Fitzgerald’s 35-year career includes oil and gas exploration, ecological resource management, environmental engineering, remote sensing and geophysical investigation, geologic and geotechnical services, facility and infrastructure asset management, business and finance advisory services, and operations. As President and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Fitzgerald directs the business of Bryant’s forensic and risk analysis engineering and architecture lines of business.
Hayden Fischer has been with Bryant for over six years and has more than eight years of experience in civil and geotechnical engineering. His background is in hydrogeology and geotechnical engineering, and he has served as a lead expert in numerous cases in these fields. Mr. Fischer’s expertise also includes electrical resistivity profiling, ground-penetrating radar, groundwater monitoring and sampling, geospatial analysis and remote sensing, slope stability, expansive/collapsing soils, and automated remote monitoring. He is proficient in EVS, GIS applications, MODFLOW, HYDRUS, and various programming languages including R, Python, and C++.
Prior to joining Bryant, Austin Muck practiced law for seven years at Bracewell LLP, where he represented businesses in a variety of commercial disputes and worked with numerous expert witnesses. Before practicing law, he earned a degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and worked at an engineering firm. As Bryant’s General Counsel and Chief Business Officer, Mr. Muck handles legal matters, oversees forensic engineering and forensic architecture projects, and identifies and pursues areas of strategic growth.
Dr. Hossain has over 25 years of wide-ranging geotechnical consulting experience in offshore oil and gas and onshore, including forensic geotechnical failure analysis of soil-structure interactions of complex foundations. Dr. Hossain’s expertise in applied geotechnics covers the full spectrum of soil mechanics and foundation engineering, from classical to novel concepts. He maintains extensive numerical modeling and analysis experience of soil-structure interactions using PLAXIS, ABAQUS, ANSYS, SLOPE/W etc. Dr. Hossain has served as a subject matter expert in geotechnics, including design and analysis of shallow and deep foundations, slope stability, soil deformation, soil-structure interactions, soil properties interpretation, and site characterization and reporting. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications (most recent in 2020), and he has worked in academia as an adjunct professor teaching undergraduate geotechnical and foundation courses. Dr. Hossain is a Charted Civil Engineer (UK) and a licensed Professional Engineer (Texas).
Dr. Helal has nearly twelve years of experience in civil and geotechnical engineering. He is adept in numerical analysis, using PLAXIS 2D, 3D, Slope/w, Apile, Lpile, Slide, Settle3D, MSEW, and GRLWEAP. Dr. Helal performs geotechnical lab and field testing, prepares proposals and geotechnical reports, and tackles complex forensic geotechnical problems, working on multi-disciplinary projects and managing teams with multi-disciplinary backgrounds, such as structural engineering, architecture, and hydrology. As a part of his Ph.D., Dr. Helal performed numerical analysis (PLAXIS 2D) to study the effect of storm cycles on the performance of embankment structures, such as dams and levees, using probabilistic approaches and neural networks to develop a user-friendly tool that helps decision makers allocate rehabilitation budgets based on risk. He has worked on several geotechnical projects funded by agencies such as ALDOT, NC DOT, and The Department of Homeland Security.
Dr. Cheon has over 14 years of industry experience in geotechnical engineering. She has hands on experience in various stages of construction, including early-stage survey planning, site investigation, detailed design and construction support. Dr. Cheon’s geotechnical specialties cover shallow and deep foundations, pipe-soil interactions, slope stability, integrated geological-geotechnical study, and probabilistic geotechnical engineering. She has numerous professional publications in addition to industry experience.
Mr. Egly has thirteen years’ experience in estimating cost of repair for damaged property for first party and third-party claims, as well as reported theft, fraud, and arson losses as required to state and industry agencies. He has extensive experience with multi-state claims handling including ISO and Texas based policies of insurance and spent four years in regional management level positions over staff and independent adjusters, performing case reviews, quality assurance and monitoring, coaching/training sessions, and evaluating personnel, in addition to insurance specialization in national catastrophe and/or foundation claims handling. Mr. Egly assists Professional Engineers in the evaluation and preparation of residential soil-structure interaction assessments and serves as Bryant’s liaison/contact with insurance company personnel for investigation requests, status of projects, and overall quality control.
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