Michelle Davis is experienced, passionate advocate for children with Special Education Needs. As an inspirational leader, Ms. Davis serves as Director of ABCs for Life Success and Special Needs Advocacy Institute. She is skilled in Child-Centered Evaluation, Program Analysis and Development, Navigating the Special Education Process, and Developing Effective Individual Student Plans which prepare students for success in school, and in life.

At James Madison and Johns Hopkins Universities, Ms. Davis was awarded with honors and earned recognition for excellence in study, and currently is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Her Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book forms the curriculum for the Training Institute of the same name taken by hundreds of parents and educators in the Washington DC area. Her most recent book, School Success for Kids with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders includes strategies for working with kids with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Mood Disorders.

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Elayne Angel has over 20 years of extensive experience in the Body Piercing Industry. She is known as a pioneer in the field, and a consummate professional revered for knowledge, skills and ethics in the areas of Piercing Techniques, After Care and Healing, and Placements. Ms. Angel has performed over 40,000 piercings since her career began in the 1980s, when she became manager of the first piercing specialty studio in the United States.

Ms. Angel is the author of The Piercing Bible--The Definitive Guide to Safe Piercing and the President for the Association of Professional Piercers (APP). Ms. Angel owned and operated her own studio in New Orleans for over 12 years, but closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It was the only licensed body art studio in the French Quarter. She also helped to promulgate legislation and train health inspectors on piercing and tattooing for the state of Louisiana.

Awards & Contributions:

• President's Award for a Lifetime of Contributions by the APP in 2006
• First wearer of body art to receive a registration from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office
• Credited as a piercing pioneer by Gauntlet, BMEzine, and others
• Re-wrote/Edited APP Procedure Manual (Definitive Guide for Safe, Sanitary Piercing Practices)
• Pens the monthly "Ask Angel" column for Pain Magazine
• Piercer to popular rock star, Lenny Kravitz
• Taught numerous classes at the APP conferences in Las Vegas & Amsterdam
• Featured in the 2003 MTV special, "A Social History of Body Piercing"
• Spoke to of medical professionals such as: Association of periOperative Nurses (AORN) & HIV/AIDS Health Educators of Louisiana
• Presented at Student Health Centers in Colleges and Universities

Medica Coverage & Recognition:

• Appeared in a numerous books such as The Illustrated Woman & Modern Primitives
• Interviewed in varied publications (The National Enquirer, Sun, Rolling Stone, Us Magazine, etc.)
• Appeared on various TV, radio, & news broadcasts
• Photos have been used on book and album covers, and in print media ads for music CDs, computer products, cars, laser tattoo removal, & more

Alexander Anolik, a seasoned trial attorney, is widely recognized as one of the pre-eminent Travel Attorneys in the world. He is president of the largest U.S. law corporation emphasizing the practice of Travel Law and Travel Industry Litigation, with a travel law support staff including attorneys, consultants, paralegals and industry trained registration assistants in his Tiburon, California offices.

Mr. Anolik is a travel industry professional with over 42 years of experience working with clients on all aspects of travel services, including tour operators, travel agencies, injured passengers and providers of travel.

Mr. Anolik has testified or consulted in hundreds of cases on a variety of issues including, but not limited to, evaluation procedures, liability and "custom and practice" within the Travel, Tourism, Transportation and Hospitality Industry. He has provided testimony in various state, federal, legislative, arbitration and mediation proceedings.

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Art Powell has researched and developed programs for at risk youth and utilizes excellent public speaking and high impact presentation skills. Mr. Powell is experienced and skilled in mediating youth conflicts, effective in training staff and communities in Gang Awareness with over 20 years of personal knowledge and experience with Gangs and Prison Life.

Art Powell has 5 programs he facilitates: Gang Prevention Program (1-hour workshop), Staff / Parents Training Program (3-hour training), Project EGRESS Program (8-weeks), Era of New Leaders Program (8-weeks), and Youth Against Violence Program (8-weeks).

Mr. Powell has established relationships and clientele with respectable organizations: Young Adult Guidance Center, The Rising Son, Inc., New Direction Ministries Youth Ministries /Outreach Program, Southwest Atlanta Y.M.C.A., Micheal A. Grant Boys and Girls Club, 100 Black Women of Georgia Chapter, Inc., MAVPP, Douglasville Police Department, First Team America, Clayton County Board of Health, Clayton County Public Schools, Atlanta Police Departments-Police Athletics League (PAL), Fulton County Department of Human Services (Youth Commissions - "Stop the Bull" Middle School Tour"), and Atlanta's Hot 107.9 "Bullying Is Not Hot" School Tour.

Les Baxter has more than 30 years of experience in the Telecommunications Industry, He has a broad background in just about every phase of product development and deployment, including system architecture, systems engineering, standards, product design and testing, field operations, product management, technical sales and marketing support, etc.

Mr. Baxter has extensive experience with Patent Infringement and Invalidity cases, Network Performance / Breach of Contract Cases and Telecommunications / Networking Product Liability cases.

Areas of Technical Expertise and Experience Include:

Systems Engineering and Offer / Value Proposition Development

System and Product Architecture

Hardware, Firmware, Software Development

Data Communication / Networking and LAN Protocols

Standards Strategy and Development

Global Technical, Sales, and Marketing Support

Technical Due Diligence

Specific Areas of Product Experience Include:

Structured Cabling and Physical Layer Networking

Residential Networks and LANs

Switching systems (circuit, packet, and optical)

Optical Networking

Randall Bell, MAI is a co-founder of Bell Anderson & Sanders LLC which specializes in Real Estate Damage Economics. By utilizing advanced valuation methodologies, they are able to determine what impact, if any, that a detrimental condition has on property values. Their clients include government agencies, oil, insurance and utility companies, corporations, developers, lenders and property owners.

Mr. Bell specializes in environmental contamination, natural disasters, construction defects, complex real estate disputes, crime stigma and other detrimental conditions. As an Expert Witness and Strategic Consultant, Mr. Bell can determine the merits of a claim. His experience and research includes the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Sites, Chernobyl, Hiroshima, the Oklahoma City Bombing, Mt. St. Helen’s Volcano, the Manoa Hawaii Landslides and many others.

Mr. Bell has a MBA from UCLA and is the author of the book "Real Estate Damages" published by the Appraisal Institute. His career has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, CNN, ABC's 20/20 and more.

Randall McCathren is a national authority on Retail Vehicle Leasing and Financing. As President and General Counsel of BLC Associates, he specializes in auto finance and lease regulatory compliance, wholesale lending; residual risk management, residual value insurance auditing and analysis, financial analysis and modeling of portfolio performance, lease and loan program design, and end-of-term lease remarketing and telemarketing.

Mr. McCathren has designed a number of analytic software packages for lease pricing and evaluation of lease program performance and profitability. He is frequently cited in both the trade and popular press on his assessments of the auto leasing business including: The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week and Automotive News, and has made numerous television appearances on behalf of the industry.

Mr. McCathren is the co-author of the only two books devoted exclusively to the technical requirements of the vehicle leasing business: The Automobile Lending and Leasing Manual (1989) and the Essentials of Consumer Vehicle Leasing (1985), as well as Auto Financing Update.

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With specialized knowledge in the field of Engineering, John Hoschette is an experienced Career Development Coach, Trainer, and Professional Key Note Speaker. Mr. Hoschette's past position at Lockheed Martin and current position as Technical Director at Rockwell Collins have allowed him an acute understanding of all aspects of an engineering career. Overseeing the operations of nearly 5,000 engineers in Sunnyvale California, along with his experience working with companies such as Alliant Tech, Honeywell, Loral and Northrop Corporations, have given him exposure to the engineering methods of many organizations nationwide.

John Hoschette is an IEEE senior member, author, career coach and adjunct professor. His career articles have appeared in Today’s Engineer and Spectrum Magazine. His company, Career Development Coaches, offers Career Resources for Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Human Resources Personnel. Whether a recent graduate, mid-career, or looking-ahead to retirement, Career Development Coaches offers proven, common-sense advice for navigating all stages of an Engineering career.

Services Offered:

Develop Successful Career Plans

University to Industry Transitions

Improve Job Performance

Navigate Difficult Workplace Environments

Compensation Negotiations

Career Setback or Job Loss Recovery

Finance Management

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Dr. Chris Coggins is a Board-Certified Toxicologist, a qualification he has held since 1986. He is a Principal in Carson Watts Consulting, with special expertise in Inhalation Toxicology, General Toxicology, Toxicological Pathology and Epidemiology.

Dr. Coggins' services include technical assistance in various aspects of Inhalation Toxicology, including Study Design, Exposure Methods, Study Monitoring, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, and Collation of such data into Reports and Publications in the peer-reviewed Scientific Literature. He provides similar services in the Disciplines of General Toxicology, Toxicologic Pathology, and Epidemiology. Dr. Coggins also provides Testimony as an Expert Board-Certified Witness in the Toxicology Disciplines.

Dr. Coggins has published extensively on the Toxicology of Tobacco Smoke. In addition to Publishing, he has also acted as a Reviewer for many Scientific Journals, including several of the journals in which Studies on Tobacco Toxicology are Published.

Dennis Wylie is an internationally recognized Human Factors Expert on driver error; inattention and improper lookout; driver fatigue; car, truck and bus driver skill and knowledge requirements; driver and motor carrier standards of care; hours of service violations; circadian rhythms; sleep debt; impaired vigilance, alertness, decision making, reaction time, and control responses.

Mr. Wylie directed the largest study of driver fatigue and alertness conducted in North America, a seven-year multimillion dollar international project that was the main factor in major revision of the federal and state rules governing working hours for commercial automobile, truck, and bus drivers, including an increase in required off-duty time of 25%.

Mr. Wylie and his colleagues also developed the national commercial driver licensing system. He is the principal author of the Commercial Driver's Manual used by all state licensing agencies for licensing commercial automobile, truck, and bus drivers. The information in the Commercial Driver's Manual defines the skill, knowledge and standard-of-care requirements for commercial drivers and is the basis of the commercial driver license (CDL) tests. Mr. Wylie and his colleagues trained the first CDL Examiners in each state, who went on to train the others. All commercial drivers in the United States – more than 20,000,000 so far – have been licensed under the CDL system, which is set out in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 CFR 383 "Commercial Driver's License Standards."

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