Mr. Wright is a native of South Carolina and was raised in the city of Charleston. He attended the University of South Carolina and received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1979. He then traveled through Europe and lived on a Kibbutz in Israel for 7 months before beginning his career as a structural engineer in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 1980. He worked in Atlanta for four years with Weems/Doar Engineers and John Portman and Associates, both structural consulting firms specializing in commercial projects. Mr. Wright then worked for four years in Savannah, Georgia for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. He worked on many military projects such as helicopter maintenance hangars and was the designated Structural Terrorism Expert with a Secret classification. In 1988, he moved to Houston, Texas to work for Walter P. Moore & Associates, which is one of the top five commercial structural consulting engineering firms in the United States.
In 1993, he started Robert L. Wright & Associates, which is also located in Houston, Texas. RLWA has to date worked on over 2,000 residential/commercial building projects and on over 3,500 forensic projects. Robert is licensed in fifteen states. He has developed software for determining the date of loss for forensic projects called WeatherStrike. He has coauthored four published peer-reviewed papers with atmospheric scientists (National Center for Atmospheric Research - NCAR) for determining the terminal velocity of hail. He sat on the steering committee for the First and Second North American Hail Conference in Boulder, Colorado at NCAR.