About Me
Jason Zeitler is the Founder of Crash Pulse Technologies, a Senior Survival Factors Investigator with the federal government, an ACTAR-accredited Accident Reconstructionist, and a nationally recognized expert in forensic crash investigation and reconstruction, and vehicle data recovery.
Before joining federal service, Jason was a Senior Accident Reconstructionist at Kineticorp, a premier forensic engineering and visualization firm based in the greater Denver, Colorado area. Prior to entering the private sector, he served with distinction as a law enforcement Sergeant, and he began investigating vehicle collisions in 2005.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Bioengineering (Biomedical Engineering) from Florida Atlantic University. He is an ACTAR accredited Traffic Crash Reconstruction and has qualified as an expert witness, providing testimony in both civil and criminal proceedings.
His research and technical expertise cover a wide spectrum of emerging and legacy technologies, including legacy vehicle communication interfaces, crash data retrieval (CDR), EEPROM chip-swapping techniques, vehicle crash reconstruction (passenger vehicles, heavy vehicles, pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle…etc), vehicle dynamics, photogrammetry, video analysis, simulation, and small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS).
Jason is the lead author of SAE Technical Paper 2021-01-0907, Validation of EEPROM Chip Removal and Reinstallation for Retrieval of Electronic Crash Data – Destructive and Non-Destructive Methods. He also has submitted his next SAE technical paper entitled Validation of a Legacy Compatible Vehicle Communication Interface for the Retrieval of Crash Data from Passenger Vehicles (Manuscript Number: 25NETP-0046).
He also served as an instructor for SAE’s advanced three-day course Vehicle Crash Reconstruction: Principles and Technology, where he taught engineers and investigators high-level reconstruction and emerging techniques in crash reconstruction. He has presented multiple times at the IPTM Symposium on Traffic Safety in 2021, 2022, and 2024. His lectures have focused on chip-level data recovery, forensic access to damaged airbag control modules, and cutting-edge methods for retrieving crash data from severely burned or electrically compromised vehicles.