FIRE/RECONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director & Marine Claims Manager / Concept Special Risk, Inc.
Mr. Godfrey rendered a detailed report that both technically and clearly explained his findings, conclusions and opinions. The report and detailed thoroughness / expertise of Mr. Godfrey was sufficient to persuade the Prosecutor to drop all the charges against my client.
The founder and president Captain Walter P. Godfrey, of the Port Canaveral, Florida based Company is the Senior Fire & Explosion Analyst with over 40 years of investigative experience. See Resume and Testimonial about Capt.
, of the Port Canaveral, Florida based Company is the Senior Fire & Explosion Analyst with over 40 years of investigative experience. See Resume and Testimonial about Capt. Godfrey here:
He is a National Board Certified Fire Investigator, National Board Certified Fire Investigation Instructor, Florida Certified Investigator, Board Certified Criminal Defense Investigator, National Board Certified Anti-Terrorism Specialist and a U.S. Coastguard 100 ton master licensed Captain.
He has been the lead investigator on more than 1500 vessel fire investigations, and also lead investigator in over 2000 vehicle/structure cases.
He shares his knowledge and expertise by teaching seminars on structure fires and surface and sub surface vessel fires for insurance underwriters, (ex. Lloyds of London), claims personnel, attorneys, and investigative arms of various government agencies as well as civic and professional groups.
The U.S. Coast Guard inspectors have worked along side him and used the case to set up procedures for their instruction courses. Instructing and sharing knowledge has helped to make Captain Godfrey one of the most successful origin & cause expert witnesses in the courtroom.
Job Titles:
- DENABURG - MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Daniel Denaburg provides fundamental Mechanical Engineering practices to evaluate, reconstruct, and validate circumstances observed at accident scenes. Generate a detailed protocol to cover all the fundamentals of testing. This includes the research required to validate the testing procedures for fire tests in order to reconstruct the fire and document actual fire test data. Provide the results in a clear concise manner stating the facts from the data findings. Some responsibilities also include video editing of tapes into DVD's in order to help communicate the fire test data.
Daniel has been with Fire/Reconstruction Consultants, Inc. since June of 2008.
Job Titles:
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
- Electrical Engineer With an
Gary Bassett, our Electrical Engineer since 2007, came to us with years of experience from NASA.
Gary Bassett , is an electrical engineer with an MBA and Gary brings a unique business approach to each case he works on. He has 25 years of failure analysis experience with NASA and the last four years as Chief of the NASA Electrical Failure Analysis Laboratory. Since he has been with Fire Reconstruction Consultants he has a proven track record of working with all kinds of failure analysis.
Job Titles:
- FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEER
- Investigator
- Protection Engineer
Jeff Dudley is a licensed Fire Protection Engineer and a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator with over 20 years of fire protection experience. He has been working with F/RC as a Fire Investigator since January of 2017. Jeff has held many committee and board positions and currently sits on five National Fire Protection Committees including the Board of Directors for the National Association of Fire Investigators. While gaining his experience, Jeff has worked with the Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and NASA in a variety of unique situations and is known for being one of the best in the fire protection industry. His specialized skills and areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: Building and fire code consulting, Fire protection and life-safety system design and commissioning, Third-party fire protection engineering design/construction review/protection justification, Life safety and fire protection surveys/assessments, Malfunction analysis and Origin and cause investigations.
Job Titles:
- FORENSIC VIDEOGRAPHER, VIDEO / AUDIO ANALYST
James Cain performs enhancements for forensic analysis on launch related engineering, documentary audio/video and film items and has been working at NASA for 23 years. In all he has 35 years experience in all areas of digital/analog computer, audio video and film. He is also nationally known for enhancing the video that lead to the capture of a child molester/killer in the death of a young Sarasota girl.
James provides an undeniable skillset to the many types of investigations provided by Fire Reconstruction Consultants, Inc. For accurately enhanced and/or interpreted data to be utilized by Law Enforcement, Governments and/or the Legal Community, Jim Cain has been a critical part of our team since 2015.
When you need to know the fire protection codes, please know with confidence that Michael Stevens is one of the best Safety Engineers around. Mike has been with Fire/Reconstruction Consultants since 2004 and has many years of experience with NASA. He can provide you with formal interpretations of National Codes & Standards as they relate to various environments.
Michael B. Stevens is a Fire Protection Engineer. If you need code research or an excellent Fire Protection Engineer than call us to have Mike Stevens as the expert on your case. Mike has 18 years of experience as a Fire Protection Engineer, dealing with all phases of fire protection from conception to final acceptance testing and incident investigation. He determines Code Equivalencies, Provides Formal Interpretation of National Codes & Standards as they Relate to Various Environments. He also Reviews Plans for Code Compliance. He also can evaluate systems for their integrity & analyze systems failures.
Have you ever wondered what caused the Challenger to explode? Our Metallurgical Engineer Robert Denaburg did the failure analysis of the Solid Rocket Motors, Delta. He also did the failure analysis of two Atlas Centuar unmanned rockets and other failure analysis for NASA. Bob has been working with Fire Reconstruction Consultants since 1983. He has given many depositions and his court experience as an expert witness is of the highest caliber.
Job Titles:
- Technician
- SECURITY PROGRAM EXPERT
Steve Van Meter our ROV Technician (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and still photographer, travels throughout the world training government personnel how to do underwater security systems. Steve worked at NASA for over 25 years and has worked with Fire Reconstruction Consultants, Inc. since 2001.
Steve D. Van Meter a certified protection professional, is a hazardous material (hazmat) and bomb expert. He is highly experienced in site surveys and hazmat and bomb scene incident investigations, and is qualified as a hazmat first responder instructor.
He provides a number of technical services for Fire Reconstruction Consultants, including; Certified Protection Professional Training, Planning, Implementation and Management of Individualized Security Programs, Explosive Ordinance Demolition, Hazardous Materials Expert, Hazardous Materials Instructor, ROV Operations, Underwater Photographer and more. Mr. Van Meter has a distinguished history of working on both marine and land-based operations.