Speakers

Wesley Vandiver is the Director of Training for Berla Corporation – a firm focused on providing investigators the tools for acquiring and analyzing vehicle systems data. In this capacity, Mr. Vandiver manages the global training operations for Berla and conducts independent research into the accuracy, reliability, and useability of these data. Mr. Vandiver is also President of Collision Forensics, Inc., a firm specializing in the reconstruction of automobile collisions and analysis of digital evidence acquired from vehicles, as well as the founder of Crashology, an ongoing independent research project focused on the examination of crash reconstruction technologies that is published biannually in Collision Magazine. Mr. Vandiver had a 28-year career in law enforcement with both the California Highway Patrol, where he was an investigator with its Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT), and the Orange County (California) District Attorney's Office, where he was a founding member of its Vehicular Homicide Unit and served as its subject matter expert in collision reconstruction and vehicular homicide investigations. Mr. Vandiver retired from law enforcement in 2016 and worked as a Senior Consultant with a Los Angeles-area forensic engineering firm before joining Berla. Mr. Vandiver is an ACTAR accredited accident reconstructionist. He has certifications in vehicle dynamics and accident reconstruction from SAE International, Technician and Analyst certifications in Event Data Recorders, and is a Certified Vehicle System Forensics Technician and Examiner. Mr. Vandiver teaches and lectures globally on crash reconstruction, event data recorders, and vehicle system forensics throughout the year. He has served as adjunct faculty at Northwestern University, the University of North Florida, U.C. Riverside, and Riverside Community College where he has taught university courses in these subjects. Mr. Vandiver has conducted extensive engineering research into the accuracy of digital evidence from automobiles and his findings have been peer reviewed and published in several technical publications including those from SAE International.