SCA TRANSPORTATION FORENSICS
Professional Info.
Mr. Chau is a transportation consultant specializing in vehicular accidents with over twenty years of experience in analyzing cases involving passenger cars, tractor-trailers, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. He has analyzed over a thousand cases and has been intimately involved in scene preservation and documentation, surveying, reconstruction, simulation, animation, human factors and other transportation related matters. As a prior instructor of Advance 3D Highway Design course at University of Florida, Mr. Chau possesses exceptional skills in producing 3D visuals quickly in-house. These skills translate to being able to convey complicated actions into easy to understand sequence of events such as rollovers and occupant dynamics. Mr. Chau is also a certified Event Data Recorder (commonly known as “black box”) analyst and retriever, for both commercial vehicles and passenger cars. He is also been qualified as a human factors expert in the area of transportation engineering. Mr. Chau applies the most leading edge technology in software and equipment, in traditional engineering for the most cost effective analysis.
Work Experience
2010 - present
2010 - present
2004 - present SCA Transportation Forensics Orlando, FL
Principal Consultant Atlanta, GA
1997 - 2004 Soan Chau & Associates, LLC Gainesville, FL
Engineering Subcontractor
Advance accident reconstruction, simulation, and animation services for other reconstruction firms other than Dr. Wattleworth & Associates.
1993 - 2004 Dr. Joseph Wattleworth & Associates Williston, FL
Associate Production Engineer
Responsibilities include: scene drawings in 2D and 3D, scene visit, import/export field data collector, vehicle inspection, writing internal software, prepare and produce court exhibits, running accident reconstruction applications, EBV (Equivalent Barrier Velocity) analysis, photogrammetry analysis, literature research and review, request of geometric roadway plans, reproduce scene drawings from design plans, simulations, interpretation of simulation results, collection of raw data, VIN decoding and analysis, building office PCs, setup office network, maintain and upgrade office workstations and network.
Education
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Master of Science in Civil Engineering courses begun 1997
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, 1993