OCI is a team of known and highly credentialed experts that have specific understanding of the industries which they operate within. Our consultative approach, coupled with our deep knowledge of the sector, culminate in conclusive recommendations that can withstand even litigious situations.

Our US Experts

Robert Cunningham

President & Director Energy

Robert Cunningham is a chemical engineer with over 20 years of operations and construction experience in the refinery, petrochemical…

Manny Morrell

Director Renewable Energy

Manny Morrell is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of expertise in renewable energy operations and construction…

Stephanie Baker

VP Strategic Growth

Stephanie is an experienced leader, connector, speaker and relationship builder within the legal, insurance, and oil and energy industries focused…

Gabriella Meyers

Senior Consultant

Gabriella Meyers is an energy consultant with over a decade of experience in upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas operations.

Sean Honore

Senior Engineer - Chemical Oil/Petro Process & LP

Sean is a downstream optimization specialist with 17 years of process engineer experience in both process design and configuration optimization…

Michael Conley

Senior Engineer - Space Launch & Satellite

Michael Conley is a retired NASA engineer with over 40 years of government and contractor experience in the design, development...

Jeff Hammitt

Senior Consultant – Structural/Composite Blades

Jeff Hammitt has over forty years of experience in the design, construction and maintenance of fossil-fueled power plants and utility-scale wind turbines.

Jeff Dice

Senior Engineer - Structural

Jeffrey Dice, PE, PMP is a licensed engineer in Texas and New Mexico with experience as a project manager and structural engineer...

Charles L. Smith

Senior Engineer - Mechanical

Charles Smith is a mechanical engineer with 45+ years of maintenance and engineering experience in petrochemical facilities...

Jody Zaruba

Senior Engineer – Electrical

Jody Zaruba, P.E. is a licensed electrical engineer who specializes in plant & facility engineering, design, planning, construction...

Cesar Ramos

Senior Consultant - Project Scheduling

Cesar is a scheduling subject matter expert with over twenty years of experience in planning techniques and magnitude of estimation for refineries…

James Saba

Senior Consultant – Project Scheduling/Controls

James "Jim" Saba has nearly 40 years of project management experience in engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning projects.

Sergio Torres, Jr.

Consultant – Project Planning/Scheduling

Sergio Chavez has technical experience in the energy sector in estimating, planning, quantity surveying, progress measurement, progress tracking, earned value management, analysis of EVM reporting etc.

Miguel Chavez

Consultant - Project Planning/Scheduling

Miguel Chavez has over a decade of experience in scheduling, cost controls, and construction in the private sector working for some of the industry’s leading energy companies.

Mazen Habash

President and Consulting Forensic Engineer (Canada)

Mazen is the president of Origin and Cause and specializes in fire investigation, electrical and electronic failures, product liability and alarm system analysis…

Ken Swan

Vice President Western Canada and Fire & Explosion Investigator

Ken is accepted as an expert witness in criminal and civil courts and in arbitration hearings, Ken specializes in structural fires and explosions…

Art Beleda

Vice President Eastern Canada and Fire & Explosion Investigator

Art is a Certified Engineering Technologist and Fire and Explosion Investigator. As part of the forensic visual services unit, he specializes in scene surveys, AutoCAD…

Steve Klimpel

Fire & Explosion Investigator and Branch Manager

Steve is accepted as an expert witness by the Ontario Superior Court, Steve specializes in fires and explosions and has conducted investigations for over…

Ryan Dobson

Fire & Explosion Investigator and Branch Manager

Ryan specializes in fire and explosion investigations and has 23 years’ experience working for the Calgary Police Service, including three years in the Homicide Unit…

Matthew Obach

Forensic Engineer and Branch Manager

Matt is a licensed professional engineer in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, and is a certified fire and explosion investigator and certified vehicle fire…

Peter Hamilton

Fire & Explosion Investigator and Atlantic Canada Manager

Peter is a Certified Fire and Explosions Investigator (CFEI) and specializes in fire scene investigation. He is also a qualified expert in both general division and provincial…

Vladimir Chlistovsky

Forensic Engineer and Mississauga Operations Manager

Vladimir has more than 30 years of professional experience, his career has encompassed a number of industries and roles: Insurance appraiser of commercial and industrial…

Michelle Holden Bradley

Forensic Engineer

Michelle specializes in vehicle fire investigation, failure analysis, product liability, residential and commercial appliances, equipment malfunctions in sprinkler systems, and heating and refrigeration equipment.

Richard Kooren

Consulting Forensic Engineer

Richard is the vice president of Origin and Cause and manager of the company’s field offices. He specializes in fire and explosion investigation, fire department litigation…

Chris K. Panasiewicz

Consulting Forensic Engineer

Chris specializes in fire and explosions investigations and electrical engineering, he is qualified as an expert witness in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice…

Dinu Matei

Consulting Forensic Engineer

Dinu is a licensed professional engineer and designated consulting engineer, specializing in metallurgical, materials and mechanical failure analysis.

Adam Lohonyai

Structural Forensics Practice Lead

Adam specializes in structural forensic investigation and holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Alberta. He is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia.

Eduardo Mari

Forensic Engineer

Eduardo is a professional materials and metallurgical engineer with a Master’s Degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the State University of New York…

Martin Coles

Forensic Engineer

Martin is a licensed professional engineer specializing in electrical engineering and fire investigation. With more than 15 years of experience.

William “Bill” Hiscott

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Bill has conducted over 1,456 fire investigations including fatal fires, explosions of residential structures, commercial structures and vehicles.

Michael Owens

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Specializing in structural fires and explosions, Mike’s professional experience includes 16 years as a fire investigator with the Ontario Fire Marshal.

Joe Adams

Fire Investigator and HVAC/Fuels Specialist

Accepted as an expert witness in all levels of criminal and civil courts, Joseph specializes in natural gas and propane fuelled fires and explosions.

Mark Mason

Fire Investigator and HVAC/Fuels Specialist

Mark has worked for the provincial downstream hydrocarbon regulator in Ontario for approximately 14 years.

Allen Bauer

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Allen is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator with over 15 years’ experience in fire suppression. He is a former captain qualified fire investigator with the City of Edmonton fire rescue services.

Richard Bulley

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Richard is a former deputy fire chief with 40 years of experience in the fire service industry, and a track record for strengthening fire investigation, rescue operations, and public safety.

Matt Roberts

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Matt is a Fire and Explosion Investigator with experience in both the forensic engineering and insurance industries. He has participated in hundreds of fire and explosion investigations involving residential structures and large commercial properties.

Chris Needham

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Chris specializes in fire and explosion investigation. Over the course of his professional career he has attended over 80 fires, conducting numerous experiments to determine the validity of hypotheses relevant to each investigation.

Stephen L. Martin

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Stephen has over 8 years of experience as a Fire and Explosion Investigator, in addition to 16 years of experience as a Collision Reconstructionist.

Darren Keuhl

Drone Operator/Collision Reconstructionis

Darren is a Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems Operator specializing in pre-loss and post-loss site inspections, field investigations and aerial scene mapping using Pix4D…

Melanie Cairns

Forensic EIT

Melanie is a Forensic EIT with an Engineering Degree and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering Technology from Lakehead University.

Tristan Delorme

Forensic EIT

Tristan is a Forensic EIT and a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Science from the University of Ottawa.

Nabi Goudarzi

Forensic Structural Engineer

Nabi specializes in the forensic structural investigation of buildings and the design of retrofitting schemes for damaged or under-designed structures.

Tyson Morris

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Tyson is a Certified Fire and Explosions Investigator and has been qualified as an expert witness in the province of Manitoba.

Gary Jarrett

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Gary is a Certified Fire and Explosions Investigator. He has over 25 years of professional experience investigating fire and explosion scenes with an urban Fire Department.

Keith B. Ellwood

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Keith is a certified Fire and Explosion Investigator. His professional experience includes over 8 years with the Office of the Fire Commissioner and a further 8 years as a firefighter.

Jimmy Fata

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Jimmy is a certified Fire and Explosion Investigator. His professional experience includes 22 years as a Fire Fighter with the Ottawa Fire Service and 10 years as a Fire Investigator with the Ottawa Fire Department, Fire Investigations Unit.

Sid Murray

Canine Expert Trainer

With over 30 years of experience training dogs in all areas of detection work, Sid leads all drug, explosive and accelerant related investigations that require the precise expertise of our K9 Unit.

Jeff Inch

Drone Operator/Collision Reconstructionist

Jeff is a Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems Operator specializing in pre-loss and post-loss site inspections, field investigations and aerial scene mapping using Pix4D and Drone Deploy software.

Michael Rice

Drone Operator/Collision Reconstructionist

Michael is a remotely piloted aerial systems operator specializing in field investigations and aerial scene mapping using pix4d and drone deploy software for collision reconstruction.

Ryan Norton

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Ryan is a Certified Fire and Explosions Investigator. He has over 10 years of professional experience and currently holds the rank of Lieutenant with Lumsden Fire Department.

Clinton Debroy

Building & Fire Code Analyst and Fire & Explosion Investigator

Clinton is a Fire and Explosions Investigator and a registered BCIN in fire protection. He has over 15 years of professional experience, including 7 years as a Fire Investigator with Kingston Fire & Rescue.

Manny Garcia

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Many has conducted over 200 investigations including fatal fires, explosions of residential structures, commercial structures and vehicles.

Said Ismail

Forensic Engineer

Said is a licensed professional engineer and certified fire and explosion investigator with over 15 years of experience.

Alexa Grittani

Fire Investigator EIT

Alexa is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator and forensic EIT.

Neil Ralston

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Neil Ralston is a senior Forensic Fire Investigator. Neil specializes in fire and explosion investigations and has 12 years’ experience.

Hasan Robah

Structural Designer and Forensics Investigator

Hasan specializes in preparing Structural Drawings, Architectural Drawings, Site Plans, Structural Calculations for Part 9 Buildings and Commercial Units.

Mike Goldberg

Fire Investigator and HVAC/Fuels Specialist

Mike is Fuels Specialist and Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator. He has over 45 years of experience in the fuels industry.

Andrea Gaynor

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Andrea is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator. She has over 10 years of experience with the Ontario Fire Marshall, prior to which she served as an officer with the Halton Regional Police Service for 22 years.

Cody Zebedee

Fire & Explosion Investigator

Cody is an NFPA and Safety Codes Certified Fire Investigator. He has over 24 years of experience as a Fire Service Leader, Safety Codes Officer and Fire Investigator.

Jason Binkley

Fire Investigator and HVAC/Fuels Specialist

Jason Binkley is a Fuels Specialist. He has 10 years of experience as an inspector at the Technical Standards and Safety Authority in addition to 20 years of experience in the private HVAC sector.

Simon Nguyen

Forensic Structural Engineer

Simon is a licensed professional engineer in Alberta, British Columbia, California and Illinois. He specializes in forensic structural investigations and the rehabilitation and restoration of existing structures.

Emma Ledo Inácio

Forensic Structural Engineer

Emma is a structural engineer specializing in the investigation, assessment and restoration of existing buildings. Her experience also consists of the design and analysis of steel and concrete structural systems.

Hussein Robah

Structural Designer

Hussein is a Structural Engineering Technologist and BCIN qualified designer with experience in construction, structural and architectural design, and Building Information Modelling.

Amir Jamshidi

Forensic Structural Engineer

Amir is a Professional Engineer with over 15 years of experiencing specializing in structural forensic investigations. He has provided engineering and technical…

Brent Fukuda

Forensic Engineer

Brent is a fire and explosion investigator and a professional engineer specializing in electronic and electrical failures, electrical code issues, and electro-mechanical failures.

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Experts

Our US Experts

Robert Cunningham

Manny Morrell

Stephanie Baker

Gabriella Meyers

Sean Honore

Michael Conley

Jeff Hammitt

Jeff Dice

Charles L. Smith

Jody Zaruba

Cesar Ramos

James Saba

Sergio Torres, Jr.

Miguel Chavez

Our Canadian Experts

Mazen Habash

Ken Swan

Art Beleda

Steve Klimpel

Ryan Dobson

Matthew Obach

Peter Hamilton

Vladimir Chlistovsky

Michelle Holden Bradley

Richard Kooren

Chris K. Panasiewicz

Dinu Matei

Adam Lohonyai

Eduardo Mari

Martin Coles

William “Bill” Hiscott

Michael Owens

Joe Adams

Mark Mason

Allen Bauer

Richard Bulley

Matt Roberts

Chris Needham

Stephen L. Martin

Darren Keuhl

Melanie Cairns

Tristan Delorme

Nabi Goudarzi

Tyson Morris

Gary Jarrett

Keith B. Ellwood

Jimmy Fata

Sid Murray

Jeff Inch

Michael Rice

Ryan Norton

Clinton Debroy

Manny Garcia

Said Ismail

Alexa Grittani

Neil Ralston

Hasan Robah

Mike Goldberg

Andrea Gaynor

Cody Zebedee

Jason Binkley

Simon Nguyen

Emma Ledo Inácio

Hussein Robah

Amir Jamshidi

Brent Fukuda

Origin and Cause – Canada

Canada’s Largest Forensic Engineering & Fire Investigation Firm