Drew Donaldson

ACTAR Number 4173

I currently hold the position of Accident Reconstructionist at JS Held, a Forensic Engineering and Visualization firm. I have held this position since July 2021, and prior to that, from 2017 to 2021, I held the same position at Kineticorp, LLC, also a Forensic Engineering and Visualization firm in Denver, Colorado. My responsibilities as an accident reconstructionist include vehicular accident reconstruction and analysis, mechanical systems design and failure analysis, and technical research and authoring peer-reviewed publications furthering the capabilities of accident reconstructionists. Since 2017 my daily work has included reconstruction of accidents involving trucks, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles as well as incidents involving pedestrians, equipment, and machinery. I am a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and have published four peer reviewed scientific articles on the topics of accident reconstruction and video analysis. I have presented these papers at both the SAE World Congress and the SAE Commercial Vehicles Conference. I am certified to image vehicle event data recorders as both a Bosch Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) Technician and a Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorder (HVEDR) Technician. I obtained my bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in mechanical engineering, and also acquired a minor in aerospace engineering. In addition, I was trained in accident reconstruction by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).