Dirk Smith
Principal Consultant, Transportation Practice Area, Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc.
- Role
- Principal Consultant at Rimkus
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dirk Smith
Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. is one of the world\'s foremost forensic engineering and consulting firms. Headquartered in Houston, with 41 offices across the U.S. and Europe, we work with insurance companies, law firms, corporations, government agencies and individuals to help them understand issues and resolve claims and disputes. For nearly 30 years, our extensive list of satisfied clients has found that no assignment is too large, too small or too complex for our staff to handle promptly and professionally and to report back in a clear, concise manner. We have supported those clients\' needs in every state in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Our professional workforce includes forensic engineers, forensic scientists, financial forensic experts and technical specialists who have years of experience and excel as forensic analysis experts in wide range of disciplinesSpecialties: mechanical design analysis, component failure analysis, accident reconstruction: cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians; machine design, vibration analysis, vehicle dynamics, product liability cases involving: vehicle systems, playground equipment, scaffolds, ladders, personal watercraft, machine components.
Experience
Principal Consultant
Jul 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Provide vehicle accident analysis, including computer-aided vehicle accident reconstruction. Accident reconstruction experience includes car, truck, semi-tractor/trailer, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian accidents. Provide mechanical design analysis, and component failure analysis.
Education
University of Southern California
MSME, Dynamics and Vibration
1987 — 1989
Purdue University
BSME, Machine Design
1982 — 1986
Purdue University
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
1998 — 2003
Skills
- Dot Regulations
- Professional Liability
- Expert Witness
- Liability
- Evidence Collection
- Accident Investigation
- Casualty
- Excess
- Claim Investigation
- Accident Reconstruction
- Motorcycling
- Trucking
- Forensic Engineering
- Private Investigations
- Risk Assessment
- Analysis
- Claims Management
- Fraud
- Legal Liability
- Fmcsr
- Commercial Lines
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Freight
- Casualty Insurance
- Forensic Analysis
- Commercial Vehicle
- Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction
- Workers Compensation
- Transportation
- Accident
- Trial Exhibits
- Forensic Consulting
- Commercial Insurance
- Dot Hours of Service
- Event Data Recorders
- Hours of Service
- Vehicles
- Motorcycle Safety
- Automobile Accidents
- Failure Analysis
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