Final Stop Consulting
Fuquay Varina, NC 27526
Mr. Edmonds is the principal of Final Stop Consulting LLC, with 15+ years of enterprise HRIS experience concentrated in Workday implementations, integrations, and post-go-live remediation for Fortune 500 and public-sector clients. He is also a published plasma physicist with peer-reviewed research on diagnostic methodology in non-equilibrium systems — an unusual combination that equips him to evaluate both enterprise software disputes and scientific or technical claims on their technical merits. Mr. Edmonds is available for expert witness engagements involving HRIS and Workday implementation failures, software architecture disputes, integration breakdowns, and technical matters in physical sciences. SAM.gov registered; NMSDC-certified MBE.
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- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: BS Computer Science. Pueer-reviewed research in plasma physics. Federal registrations: SAM.gov, CAGE Code 192U7, UEI Y32XZJFL2NT1. NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB). Principal of Final Stop Consulting LLC. Workday Pro certified.
- Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship 2.0
Member, International Society for the Systems Sciences - Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: 15+ years delivering technical training and architectural presentations to client implementation teams, project steering committees, and business stakeholders across enterprise Workday engagements. Subject matter includes Workday reporting architecture, HCM configuration, integration design, data migration strategy, and post-go-live system remediation. Audiences have ranged from technical analysts to C-suite executives at Fortune 500 and public-sector clients. Peer-reviewed scientific publication serves as a further record of technical communication under formal review.
- Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
- A: No
- Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
- A: 0 (actively building expert witness practice)
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: N/A
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: N/A
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: N/A
- Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
- A: N/A
- Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
- A: N/A
- Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: N/A
- Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
- A: N/A
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
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- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Consulting, technical document review, forensic analysis of software implementation artifacts (SOWs, architecture documents, deliverable acceptance records, issue logs, project correspondence), written expert reports, deposition testimony, trial testimony, site observation of system environments, and independent technical assessment of scientific or engineering claims under Daubert standards.
- Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: $400
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: $400
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: $500
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: $600
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: Initial retainer of $5,000 required before engagement begins, applied against hourly work. Travel expenses billed at cost; mileage at current IRS standard rate. Lodging and per diem at cost. Document reproduction and specialized research costs billed at cost. Depositions and trial testimony require 72-hour advance notice of cancellation; cancellation within 72 hours billed at the equivalent of one full day at the applicable testimony rate. Four-hour minimum for deposition and trial testimony.
References upon request.