Joseph B. Michels, Ph.D., P.E., C.P.L., FIISE 🛡️

Biography

Joseph B. Michels is Executive Managing Director of Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC, an international engineering and management consulting firm headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with additional offices in Salt Lake City and Atlanta, practicing in supply chain management, logistics, business operations, and government procurement. He was a principal of the firm from 2008 until its board named him Executive Managing Director in January 2025. He serves as an expert witness in transportation, trucking, trailer loading and unloading, warehousing, inventory control, logistics, supply chain management, distribution, packaging, forklift operations, OSHA compliance, procurement, and overall business operations, and has more than 49 years of senior management experience in supply chain management and logistics. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel (1971 to 2002) who held vice-presidential-level responsibility for air, sea, and surface transportation, strategic sourcing, purchasing, and requirements planning, and managed budgets exceeding $4 billion. His Air Force service included senior leadership of an F-16 maintenance group, program management of computer systems at the Defense Logistics Agency, logistics work in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and a city-manager role running all base operations and maintenance at a remote arctic base in northern Greenland. He also served as Dean of the School of Systems and Logistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and, from 2002 to 2005, as Dean of the AACSB-accredited College of Business at Montana State University Billings, where the college launched an online B.S. in Business Administration. He holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology from Weber State University, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, an M.P.A. from the University of Oklahoma, and an M.A. from the Naval War College. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and Montana, a Certified Professional Logistician through SOLE (the International Society of Logistics), a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and DAWIA Level 3 certified in Acquisition Logistics. Location: Fort Worth, TX.

Practice Details

• Firm: Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC
• Location: Fort Worth, TX
• Website: solomonbruce.com

Credentials & Certifications

• Professional Engineer (P.E.), Texas and Montana
• Certified Professional Logistician (C.P.L.), SOLE - The International Society of Logistics
• DAWIA Level 3 Certified, Acquisition Logistics
• Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (FIISE)
• Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University

Case Experience

• Authored 43 expert reports
• Retained on a roughly even split of plaintiff and defense matters

Fee Schedule

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• How to Vet an Expert Witness: A Qualifications Checklist
• The 2026 Expert Witness Fee Guide

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