100 Aerial Adventure/Zipline
Expert Witness Engagements
Design Engineer /Zipline Builder/Technical Writer
MICHAEL “TROY” RICHARDSON--BS, MA, MS*, QCM, QCI, helps his clients’ with decades of knowledge and experience winning cases. He explains complicated terminology, so it can be understood by the masses in trail. He advised Disney, Universal, and many others at the 2023 IAAPA luncheon in Orlando, FL., in a lunch with their defendant attorneys. Confident as a Subject Matter Expert because 95% of my cases settle.
I am a manufacturer, patent holder, and builder of aerial amusement rides and devices since 2001.
Education
Technical Writing --Utah TECH University Spring 2024
BS Engineering Technologies—Southern Utah University 2012-2014
Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering; Multiple CAD courses; Civil Design, Mechanics Statics, Dynamics, Calculus, Engineering Design, SolidWorks, Physics and Structural Design, Physics Fitness Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, 3D Simulations, Motion Studies, Modeling, Animations, and Stress Analysis
WORK EXPERIENCE, not limited to
75-plus expert engagements:
I am a manufacturer, patent holder, and builder of aerial amusement rides and devices since 2001.
Education
Technical Writing --Utah TECH University Spring 2024
BS Engineering Technologies—Southern Utah University 2012-2014
Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering; Multiple CAD courses; Civil Design, Mechanics Statics, Dynamics, Calculus, Engineering Design, SolidWorks, Physics and Structural Design, Physics Fitness Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, 3D Simulations, Motion Studies, Modeling, Animations, and Stress Analysis
WORK EXPERIENCE, not limited to
- Built the 2002 Record-breaking Park City Mountain Resort Zipline.
- Owner/Operator/Trainer Spanish Fork, Utah, in 2009-10
- Designer/Fabricator of the Horseshoe Resort Zipline in 2010
- 2023-24 developed a training program for American Adventure Park Systems with world-record 107 ziplines on their course in Georgia.
- 2024 designing a supplemental 8-hour training program for Hive Trampoline Park in Spanish fork, Utah
75-plus expert engagements:
- 2015 zipline accident investigation at Olympic Park
- 2016 zipline death at Sundance Ski Resort…
- 2021 Child paralyzed at a Trampoline Park
- 26-million-dollar settlement Mazatlán zipline
- Catapult death of child on a homeowner’s property