David Harning, MS,CRC,CCM,LCP

Experience

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  St. Mark School, Brooklyn, NY

  Sept 1984 - Jun 1991

  Math Teacher

  Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate these objectives to students. Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments in order to evaluate students' progress. Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests. Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems. Maintain accurate, complete, and correct student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations. Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress, and to determine their priorities for their children and their resource needs. Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from such activities. Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help. Prepare for assigned classes, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors. Administer standardized ability and achievement tests, and interpret results to determine student strengths and areas of need. Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities such as desks and restrooms. Show less

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  New York State Education Department, ACCES-VR

  Jan 1991 - Jul 2015

  Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

  Provide medical, vocational and financial case management services to injured (WC) workers and disabled individuals (SSD) (average caseload size 300-350 per year) within the New York State Vocational Rehabilitation Program. Provided counseling to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with physical, mental, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of short-term care and treatment facilities. Show less

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  Forensic Vocational Expert/Litigation Consultant

  Aug 1991 - now

  Forensic Vocational Expert/Litigation Consultant

  Furnish expert witness case evaluations, forensic services and testimony in various courts of law regarding the impact of an injury on the employment potential and earning capacities of an individual. Qualified as a vocational expert to provided expert testimony regarding product liability, personal injury, MVA, medical malpractice, failure to diagnose, marital dissolution, workers' compensation, social security disability, long-term disability and quality of life issues resulting from catastrophic injuries. Administer comprehensive battery of interest, aptitude, achievement, cognitive and intelligence testing. Provide medical data review and comprehensive evaluations such as transferable skills analysis, labor market and wage market studies, diminution of earnings/future earnings, intelligence and employment testing, education/training options and life care plans for catastrophic injuries. Provide depositions of findings as necessary. Provide in-depth evaluation and testimony of vocational testimony and the vocational implications of surveillance videotaped activities as well as participating in mock trial/panel discussions. Completed assignments in New York (upstate/downstate), New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Show less

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  Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings and Appeals

  Sept 1994 - Mar 2002

  Vocational Expert

  Furnish impartial expert opinion evidence at both the initial and hearing level of the Social Security Disability claims process via written responses to interrogatories and/or formal testimony at hearings. Review detailed medical evidence, personal, educational, and vocational history and diagnostic records and evaluations of client's disability, impairments, abilities and the like. Furnish comprehensive vocational analysis of past relevant work including required specific vocational preparation, general educational development, physical requirements, working conditions and aptitudes. Furnish detailed expert opinion concerning the claimant’s ability to perform the past relevant or relevant work of any additional job that exists in the national, state and local economy. Furnish accurate and current labor market statistics for the national, state and local economies in Western, Eastern and Central New York. Show less

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  Social Security Consultant/Expert

  Mar 2002 - now

  Social Security Consultant/Expert

  Furnish expert opinions to law firms/representatives to assist claimant’s seeking disability benefits at all levels of the Social Security Disability claims process. Provide vocational evaluations consisting of comprehensive record reviews (medical, vocational & diagnostic), vocational diagnostic interviews, employment and transferable skill’s analysis to make a determination of the claimants ability to perform gainful work activity. Furnish comprehensive vocational analysis of past relevant work including required specific vocational preparation, general educational development, physical requirements, working conditions and aptitudes. Furnish detailed expert opinions in report form concerning the effects of age, education, past work experience, and impairments on the claimants' ability to perform substantial gainful work activity within the scope of the Social Security Rules and Regulations. Furnish accurate and current labor market statistics for the national, state and local economies via direct labor market surveys as well as state and federal government data. Show less

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  Self-Employed

  Dec 2010 - now

  Life Care Planner

  Research, develop, and implement individually tailored and all-inclusive life care plans for individuals (infants, adolescents, adults, elderly) with chronic illnesses and catastrophic injuries while improving their overall quality of life and minimizing further complications. Areas of plans developed for plaintiff’s and defense include, but not limited to amputee, acquired brain injury, burn patients, chronic pain, organ transplant, visually impaired, spinal cord injury, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS. Life care plans are peer reviewed and adhere to practice standards and ethical guidelines via ICHCC. Show less

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  New York State Education Department

  Jul 2015 - Oct 2016

  Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

  Supervise and direct a unit of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors who plan and coordinate the vocational rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities;Assign new cases to professional staff for evaluation and the preparation of an Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) with the consumer;Evaluate the progress of counselors’ case activities to ensure that cases are being handled properly and expeditiously;Expedite the processing of case referrals by developing and maintaining relationships with referral sources; andConduct training for new counselors and interns in the techniques and principles of rehabilitation counseling through personal instruction and work review. Show less