Rivale Inspection Services

Early in his career, Dean was a field engineer on large industrial projects such as high-end office buildings and waste water treatment plants in Denver, CO.  He moved into construction project management after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, and managed multimillion-dollar seismic retrofit, lab facility, and hospital expansion projects.

In 1994, Dean traveled to Northridge, CA to work as a FEMA Home Inspector to help that region recover from the $42B in earthquake damage.  For the next 10 years, Dean conducted home inspections for construction defect litigation working on large home developer cases across the Bay Area and Central Valley.  In that capacity, Dean completed more than 3,000 individual inspections, and provided subject matter expert opinions for legal mediations and court cases.