Professional Summary: This expert witness has over 40 years of experience with storage devices, embedded software systems for industry and consumer products, systems, including Flash Memory ( Solid State Disks, memory cards, flash drives ), Optical Storage (CD, DVD, WORM, Magneto-Optical), Magnetic Storage (Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, Tape), RAID/Disk Arrays and jukeboxes; USB, SCSI, iSCSI, IDE / ATA / ATAPI / SATA, Fibre Channel, PCMCIA, game programming, home appliances and telecommunications. He has written and designed device drivers, software and firmware for Windows, Linux, VxWorks, QNX and other embedded real-time operating systems ( RTOSs ). He has been a software developer, project lead, seminar presenter and technical writer. He is experienced with various programming languages, including C, C++, Delphi, C# and assembly. He has been an expert witness and expert consultant in over 40 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action and contractual disputes, patent portfolio reviews including file systems, game programming, home appliance, telecommunications and television control software. These have drawn on over 30 years of experience in the software storage industry and over 40 years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the consumer products, telecommunications and storage industries. He has written expert reports, been deposed, and has provided courtroom testimony at trial. His engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, and computer media duplication, as well as forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase, FTK and DiskJocky |