Eric is Senior Principal at Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) and currently serves as the company’s Applied Research Team Leader. He manages/supports projects and applied R&D efforts focused on mitigating risk to people, systems and mission-critical infrastructure from natural hazards, accidental extraordinary events, and hostile attacks. Since joining PEC, Eric has worked in several different industry sectors. He has supported licensing-basis and post-Fukushima plant modification projects and security-related assessment/upgrade projects for domestic and international nuclear power plants. He has performed multi-hazard assessments, seismic peer reviews, and seismic risk rating system development for commercial, U.S. military and heavy industrial clients. He has also served as lead explosives safety consultant providing site planning and protective design services to both military and commercial clients dealing with explosives and energetics. Eric has been heavily engaged in transportation infrastructure safety and security; key efforts have included primary authorship of the FHWA Bridge Security Design Manual, chief developer of the Anti-Terrorism Planner for Bridges (ATP-Bridge) software for DHS, applied research and development of stay-cable protection strategies for long-span bridges, vulnerability assessment of a highway bridge to the effects of ongoing quarry blasting, and Principal Investigator of a Phase 2 SBIR with the DOT aimed at enhancing rail passenger survivability during a derailment event through resilient wayside structure designs. Eric excels at employing high-fidelity numerical modeling techniques to enhance the accuracy of assessments and optimize risk mitigation strategies; examples include quantifying load effects from landmine detonations, assessments of industrial equipment to accidental explosions, novel tornado missile barrier designs for nuclear plants, and the implementation of a statistical glass-fracture material model into an FEA framework for predicting the blast response of glazed façade systems.