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Wood Scientist, Wood Technologist, Wood Research Specialist, Forest Products Expert, Construction Management and Wood Products Engineer, Failure Analysis, Forensic Investigation and Analysis, Expert, Engineering Consulting Services
Expertise in forest products, construction management and wood products engineering, environmental science, investigations of construction deficiencies, evaluation of anticipated future performance of wood structures and assemblies, failure analyses of wood and wood-based products. Additional experience includes testing laboratory administration, research of the use of supercritical fluids for wood treating, examination of treatability of refractory softwoods, research of protection of sawn lumber, and historic timber bridge consulting.

Other areas of specialty include evaluation of wood used in geotechnical engineering and construction applications, mold contamination, assessment and remediation in wood framed buildings, determination of the condition of wood cooling tower components, field investigations and failure analyses of wood and wood-based products, wood structural failures in energy efficient environments, assessing the condition of heavy timber buildings, treatability of douglas fir, hem-fir, spruce-pine-fir, assessment of glulaminated arches, and microbiological analyses of wood samples.

Has conducted numerous studies in areas including assessment of wood members, testing of container plywood flooring, investigation of scaffold planks, assessment of wainscotting and wood trim, evaluation of wood pilings, evaluation of wood floor joists and girders, assessment of roof system noises, coating failure evaluation, evaluation of the residual strength and stiffness of fire retardant treated lumber, visual assessment and evaluation of roof timbers, microbiological, marine borer and creosote retention analyses for pilings, cedar siding paint failure, and evaluation of decking samples.

Additional areas of related expertise include advanced engineered lumber evaluation, investigation of noisy floor systems, evaluation of selected floor joists & roof rafters, inspection of tongue & groove decking, wood structural failures in energy efficient environments

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Construction, Environmental Testing Laboratories, Forest Products, Lumber, Wood Science and Technology

EDUCATION
M.S., Forest Products, Oregon State University
B.S., Construction Management & Wood Products Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Physics - major, Mathematics - minor, State University of New York College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing expertise in wood science, wood technology, wood research, forest products, construction management and wood products engineering, failure analysis, forensic investigation and analysis, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Wood Scientist, consulting firm specializing in wood and wood-based products

Primary responsibilities included applied research on wood and wood-based products, performing investigations of construction deficiencies and evaluation of anticipated future performance of wood structures and assemblies. Secondary responsibilities included over-sight of the testing laboratory and some administrative assignments.

Wood Technologist, consulting firm specializing in wood and wood-based products

Primary responsibilities included investigations of problems associated with wood and wood-based products, evaluations of wood products used in construction and to manage the testing laboratories.

Graduate Research Assistant, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Products, Corvallis, OR

Researched, designed and implemented a study examining the use of supercritical fluids for wood treating. Examined treatability of refractory softwoods using high density incising. Assisted in researching the protection of sawn lumber using Bacillus subtilis and selected fungi.

Forest Products Undergraduate Recruitment, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Products, Corvallis, OR

Worked with treatability of Pacific Northwest softwoods using incising and through-boring. Cored wood treated with selected water-borne and oil-bourne preservatives. Measured preservative penetration and prepared samples for retention analysis.

HONORS AND AWARDS
Forestry Honor Society - Xi Sigma Pi
President's List, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Graduating honors, second in the Department of Wood Products Engineering
Who's Who among American Colleges & Universities Award
Nelson Courtlandt's Brown Scholarship Award, Dept. of Wood Products Engineering

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Forest Products Society
American Society for Testing & Materials
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Wood Preservers' Association
Southern Pine Inspection Bureau
Society of Wood Science and Technology
Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
New York State Builders Association (NYSBA)
Student Construction Association (SCA)
Habitat for Humanity

PUBLICATIONS
Numerous publications related to investigations of construction deficiencies, evaluation of wood used in geotechnical engineering and construction applications, mold contamination, assessment & remediation in wood framed buildings, determination of the condition of wood cooling tower components, field investigations & failure analyses of wood & wood-based products, wood structural failures in energy efficient environments, assessing the condition of heavy timber buildings, and more.

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