Mr. Aler is a Director with Koffel Associates and has more than 35 years of experience as a fire protection engineer. He has a Bachelor's and a Master’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering and is a registered Fire Protection Engineer in Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Virginia.  He is experienced in the application of government and national fire protection and life safety standards to existing and new facilities.  His work experience includes extensive plan review, survey and analysis to evaluate compliance with NFPA 101®, Federal, and local building code criteria, design of various types of smoke control systems, and development of code modifications/equivalencies in coordination with code officials.  He also evaluates existing fire protection systems, develops recommendations for upgrades, reviews drawings and specifications for existing systems, witness’s tests of fire protection systems; and conducts risk assessments and FSES evaluations.